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Author	Rejwan, Nissim.
Title	The last Jews in Baghdad [e-book] remembering a lost homeland / Nissim Rejwan ; foreword by Joel Beinin.
Publication Info.	Austin : University of Texas Press, c2004. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)

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Location	Call No.	Status
Online Resource	E-book	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xxii, 242 p. )
Series	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Note	Includes index.
Contents	In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Na⁽¬i⁺ѕma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ⁽¬Alwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ⁽¬Ali's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Access	Remote access limited to New York Society Library members with a username and password.
Subject	Rejwan, Nissim.
	Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Social life and customs.
	Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography.
	Baghdad (Iraq) -- Ethnic relations.
Genre or Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Project Muse.
ISBN	0292702930 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780292797475
	0292797478
	9780292702936

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