Nissim rejwan biography of abraham lincoln

“It is all but impossible to pinpoint a date or an event with which the position
of the Jews of Iraq began to deteriorate and take the course leading finally, inevitably, to the destruction of community,” writes Nissim Rejwan near the
end of his memoir The Last Jews of Baghdad (p.

188). Yet their centurieslong
presence was such that, as the author notes, for those Jews who were
born and grew up in Baghdad before the mass exodus of 1950-51, the presence
of a mere handful of elderly Jews in the city today is “a state of affairs
[that] is hard to imagine” (p.

In Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, author By Nissim Rejwan.

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Abraham lincoln in the post-heroic era: history and memory in late Rejwan, Nissim.

Nissim Rejwan belongs to this literary generation.

1). Rejwan’s endearing memoir traces out a
period of Iraqi history that saw the disappearance of a community that had
been an integral part of the human map and the city’s history. The author’s
youth, from his birth in 1926 to his irrevocable departure in 1952 for Israel,
condemns him to what he refers to as a state of permanent unbelonging.
Rejwan was born in a Baghdad, where J