My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
 

My Father's Paradise

by Ariel Sabar

In a remote and dusty corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an ancient community of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic—the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers, humble peddlers and rugged loggers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of... (read more)

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Over a lifetime Ariel Sabar’s father has traveled from a remote enclave of ancient Judaism in Kurdistan to the shanty towns of burgeoning Israel and finally to the coasts of America. Along the way he has played a seminal part in preserving the dying language of his people, Aramaic. In typical American teenage fashion, Ariel rejects his father and his father’s history in his attempt to assimilate into Southern California youth culture. Later, as an adult greeting his own newborn son into the...

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