No Way Back The Journey of a Jew from Baghdad eBook J Daniel Khazzoom
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I was born a Jew in Baghdad, in the Muslim country of Iraq. My roots there go back centuries Legend has it that our first Khazzoom ancestor was born in Baghdad six hundred and fifty years ago
In 1951, at the age of 18, I left my family and the country of my birth, Iraq, to settle in the new state of Israel. Along with more than 850,000 other Jews from Arab lands, I was escaping persecution and seeking sanctuary in the Jewish homeland, after Israel's war of independence. With the rise of Arab nationalism during the nineteen thirties and forties, the everyday hatred directed toward Iraq's Jews by our Muslim neighbors snowballed into fearsome terror. Still, we did not decide to upend our lives lightly. Most of us who joined this migration left behind homes, loved ones, businesses and bank accounts in order to live in peace and security among fellow Jews.
One of my aims in writing what follows is to document a way of life that vanished with this exodus the rich Babylonian Jewish culture that had flourished since ancient times in Iraq. I also wanted to put the current bloodshed in Iraq in a larger historical context. Much of the torture, assassination, bombing, kidnapping, hand cutting and beheading that dominate today's headlines (and that mistakenly many tend to attribute to the presence of our troops in Iraq) - is what we lived through and endured, except that at the time there were no TV cameras and no reporters to report to the world what was happening to us. Iraq was and remains a very violent society. Saddam Hussein was not an aberration. He is a product of that culture of violence. I witnessed this inherent violence of Iraqi society over and over as a child. However much I tried to erase it from memory, terror of the mob is imprinted on my soul. What remains -- what I have been unable to shed -- is a harrowing instinct to be prepared to flee at any moment.
I was young and had little to lose by way of material assets when I left Iraq. But my departure marked the first of many tearful partings and separations that would be my family's fate amid the incessant turbulence in the Middle East. For seven years after leaving Baghdad, I had no word from my parents who I'd left behind. To communicate would have put their lives in Iraq at risk. Eventually, they and my siblings followed me to Israel.
Life in Israel was a huge comedown for the refugees that streamed in from Arab lands, swamping the new nation's ability to provide jobs, housing, and even food. More painfully, we encountered discrimination and we were called "Arabs," and derided for our language and customs as primitive. So in 1958, I once more ventured into the unknown. I again took leave of my family -- to get my doctorate, marry, start a family and build a career as an economist in the United States and Canada.
The price of freedom has been almost unbearably high. The dispersal from our homeland, the expropriation of our possessions, the years of anxious separation and the demoralizing economic strains of life in Israel would ultimately tear at our once-close family bonds. The passage of time has helped repair the breach, but it came too late for some of my relatives.They died penniless and alone in Israel.
No Way Back The Journey of a Jew from Baghdad eBook J Daniel Khazzoom
This book is two things: a poignant and beautiful look at a vanished world, and a story about how emigration can tear families apart. The majority of the book deals with the author's childhood and youth in Jewish Baghdad. The repeated descriptions of food made me very hungry. I had not realised how Westernised, educated, prosperous, and essential to the proper functioning of the country the Jews of Iraq had been: or how precarious and horrible their life became. The disappointment of the author's life in Israel after he escapes Baghdad is passed over quickly, and his long and successful career in North America yet more swiftly, with the focus of this second part of the book the pain of the separation between the authors and his once-close family. It is a separation that is almost entirely the free choice of Prof Khazoom himself, as he chose to follow the path to success in the individualistic Western world, rather than accept the role family tradition assigns for him; but that does not lessen his pain.Product details
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I would recommend this book for those in any status in life. It is a heart rending documentary of the struggles of one of God,'s chosen people, which applies to the struggles of many citizens of many races..It is a book of struggles,love and caring for others,disappointments, and honesty, but most of all, an account of the method by which all of these factors may be overcome . It will make you both cry and applaud. God bless you,Dr. Khazzoom
Very emotional and well written
This book is two things a poignant and beautiful look at a vanished world, and a story about how emigration can tear families apart. The majority of the book deals with the author's childhood and youth in Jewish Baghdad. The repeated descriptions of food made me very hungry. I had not realised how Westernised, educated, prosperous, and essential to the proper functioning of the country the Jews of Iraq had been or how precarious and horrible their life became. The disappointment of the author's life in Israel after he escapes Baghdad is passed over quickly, and his long and successful career in North America yet more swiftly, with the focus of this second part of the book the pain of the separation between the authors and his once-close family. It is a separation that is almost entirely the free choice of Prof Khazoom himself, as he chose to follow the path to success in the individualistic Western world, rather than accept the role family tradition assigns for him; but that does not lessen his pain.
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