Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation

by Marina Benjamin

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Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's Middle Eastern ways, refusing to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home and rejecting the peculiar food they ate. But when Benjamin had her own child, she realised that she was losing her link to the past. And so, in 2004, Benjamin visited Baghdad for the first time, searching for her family's history amongst the remains of its once vital Jewish community, the roots of which predate the birth of Islam by a thousand years. What she discovered will haunt anyone who seeks to understand...Read more
  • ISBN10 0743298675
  • ISBN13 9780743298674
  • Publish Date 3 October 2006 (first published 1 October 2006)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Free Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 320
  • Language English