Professor Avi Shlaim discusses his recent book, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, as he revisits his family’s idyllic days in Iraq before they were unwittingly swept into the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews into newly-created Israel. The family’s cultural shock was traumatic, and their fortunes were reversed forever.
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"Three Worlds: Memoirs Of An Arab-Jew"
Professor Avi Shlaim discusses his recent book, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, as he revisits his family’s idyllic days in Iraq before they were unwittingly swept into the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews into newly-created Israel. The family’s cultural shock was traumatic, and their fortunes were reversed forever.