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100			_aShiblak, Abbas _95734
245		0	_aIraqi Jews _b: a history of mass exodus _c/ Author: Abbas Shiblak; Preface by Peter Sluglett
250			_a2005
260			_aLondon; _bSaqi Books; _c2005
300			_a215p; _c21cm
500			_aFirst published as The Lure of Zion, London 1986.
520			_aThe Jews of Iraq constituted one of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish communities in the world. But in the early 1950s most of them left for Israel, under circumstances that remain the subject of heated controversy. "Iraqi Jews: A History of Mass Exodus" examines the critical years of the late 1940s - after the establishment of the state of Israel - when deep rifts began to appear in Iraqi society, and the sad sequence of events that finally led to the mass exodus of Jews in the 1950s. An honest, impartial and well-documented account of a formerly well-integrated and vibrant community, "Iraqi Jews: A History" is a landmark in the political and social history of the Middle East.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aDS67-79.9 History of Asia- Iraq _95733
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