Flight From Babylon: Iraq, Iran, Israel, America

Haddd, Heskel M.

ISBN 10: 0070254184 / ISBN 13: 9780070254183

Published by McGraw-Hill, 1986

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(1st) Large, heavy sturdy book, dark blue cloth spine, blue boards, gilt lettering near-bright on spine, 373 pages. DJ glossy red background beneath mylar, a stark beautiful color photo on front of huge rock mountain, reddish sands with footprints, small photograph of author at top back. DJ and book, both As New. Seller Inventory # 12357

Bibliographic Details

Title: Flight From Babylon: Iraq, Iran, Israel, ...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

The author recounts his childhood in Iraq, the Nazi-inspired attacks on Iraqi Jews in the late thirties, and the events which forced him and his family to emigrate to Israel

From Publishers Weekly:

As the spirited teenage son of an Iraqi Jewish family in the 1940s, Haddad refused to passively accept the persecution of Jews by Muslims and joined underground groups such as the Zionist organization Haganah. At 15, he was admitted to medical school in Baghdad; he eventually earned the first doctorate in medicine awarded in modern Israel. Now an ophthalmologist in the U.S., he (with the help of magazine writer Rosenteur) here recounts in absorbing detail his Baghdad childhood, conversion to Zionism, and involvement in the smuggling of Jews to Palestine until he himself was forced to flee to Tel Aviv. Haddad's experiences cause him to doubt that coexistence between Arabs and Jews is possible, and he maintains that it was the prejudice of western Jews in Israel against those from the East and Africa that motivated his move to America.
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