A lot of people can’t get their head around the phrase our next guest uses to describe herself - to some it sounds like a contradiction in terms, or an impossibility even

The phrase Samantha Ellis uses is “Iraqi Jew", and the reason it’s unfamiliar has a lot to do with a long and complex history that Samantha comprehensively gets her own head around in her new book Chopping Onions on My Heart 

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Samantha Ellis