Author: Esther Mercado
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Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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Iraq My Testimony books, Memoirs of a Jew born in Baghdad, based mainly on her diaries, covering the events in Iraq in 1941-51 and, briefly, her life in Israel from June 1951. Describes the anti-Jewish riots in Baghdad in June 1941, her involvement in clandestine Zionist activities in Iraq, and persecutions which her family and other Jews of Iraq suffered in 1947-51. During the period of the partition of Palestine, Iraqi authorities persecuted the entire Jewish community: many Jews were arrested, including the author's father and one of her brothers; many were tried and executed. Thousands of Jews were forced to leave Iraq illegally or, after 1950, officially, in both cases leaving all their possessions behind. The last 14 pp. contain poems by the author.