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The last Jews in Baghdad remembering a lost homeland / by Rejwan, Nissim

Table of Contents: “…In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Naʻīma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ʻAlwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ʻAli's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions.…”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg / by Weisberg, David B.

Table of Contents: “…: ancient near eastern texts and the study of the Bible -- A centennial review of Friedrich Delitzsch's "Babel und Bibel" lectures -- Delitzsch in context -- Babel und Bibel und Bias : how anti-Semitism distorted Friedrich Delitzsch's scholarship -- On reading archival texts : M. …”
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