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Memories of Eden - A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad (Hardcover): Violette Shamash Memories of Eden - A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad (Hardcover)
Violette Shamash; Edited by Tony Rocca, Mira Rocca
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Memories of Eden" evokes a bygone era - when pre-WW2 Baghdad was one-third Jewish and interfaith relations were harmonious. When Violette was born, Mesopotamia had been Ottoman for some 600 years, until redrawn as Iraq by the British when Violette was eight years old. This bittersweet memoir tells of a childhood spent in the city of Caliphs, Scheherazade and the land of the Garden of Eden, of traditions passed down over the generations, and captures vividly the elusive quality of a scene totally at odds with our image of today's Iraq. As a privileged young woman growing up with her extended family in the city of The Thousand and One Nights, Violette re-lives the excitement of a vibrant society coming to terms with daily life, first under Ottoman, then British, and finally, pro-Nazi rule, which ended in disaster for the Jews of Iraq, who were brutally attacked in two days of slaughter in May 1941 while British troops stood by, under orders not to intervene.The pogrom, which sounded the death-knell for the oldest community in the Diaspora, has been sidelined in history. Now, in a final section in the memoir, the editors reveal the steps that led to the catastrophe and the British bungling that brought it about. Like Anne Frank's diary, "Memories of Eden" tells of an easy and happy childhood, of growing maturity and sophistication, and then shrinking circumstances, victimisation and, finally, flight.

The Amazing Adventures of Wobblin' Wobin (Paperback): Tony Rocca The Amazing Adventures of Wobblin' Wobin (Paperback)
Tony Rocca
R694 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R81 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chianti On The Rocks - Against all odds, reluctant winemakers capture a dream (Paperback): Tony Rocca Chianti On The Rocks - Against all odds, reluctant winemakers capture a dream (Paperback)
Tony Rocca
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You Send Me (Paperback): Tony Rocca You Send Me (Paperback)
Tony Rocca
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A story inspired by true events. Nicky, a pushy young radio presenter with a dark past, lands her first big job on a struggling provincial radio station in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Marc, a world-weary advertising man, takes pity when no-one responds to her pleas for listeners to text her show. He falls for her and invents a whole cast of characters, a total of 18, and assigns a second-hand mobile to each. The station's fortunes change dramatically as a result of all the messages they receive from these individuals, not having a clue that they are fictitious. Marc and Nicky, whose ambition has driven her from executive bed to bed, finally make out - but his texts have been so convincing she's fallen for one of his characters! Nicky then discovers Marc's deception, and flees. Mortified, Marc is shocked to find how she has been deceiving him all along. Finally he is rescued by one of her broadcasting colleagues. They fall in love, marry, settle down...and Nicky, meanwhile, lands the job of her dreams.

Memories of Eden - A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad (Paperback): Violette Shamash Memories of Eden - A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad (Paperback)
Violette Shamash; Edited by Tony Rocca, Mira Rocca; Shmuel Moreh
R878 Discovery Miles 8 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

According to legend, the Garden of Eden was located in Iraq, and for millennia, Jews resided peacefully in metropolitan Baghdad. Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad reconstructs the last years of the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world through the recollections of Violette Shamash, a Jewish woman who was born in Baghdad in 1912, sent to her daughter Mira Rocca and son-in-law, the British journalist Tony Rocca. The result is a deeply textured memoir-an intimate portrait of an individual life, yet revealing of the complex dynamics of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Toward the end of her long life, Violette Shamash began writing letters, notes, and essays and sending them to the Roccas. The resulting book begins near the end of Ottoman rule and runs through the British Mandate, the emergence of an independent Iraq, and the start of dictatorial government. Shamash clearly loved the world in which she grew up but is altogether honest in her depiction of the transformation of attitudes toward Baghdad's Jewish population. Shamash's world is finally shattered by the Farhud, the name given to the massacre of hundreds of Iraqi Jews over three days in 1941. An event that has received very slight historical coverage, the Farhud is further described and placed in context in a concluding essay by Tony Rocca.

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