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My Father's Paradise


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Éditeur : Algonquin books of Chapel Hill Date & Lieu : 2008-01-01, New York
Préface : Pages : 332
Traduction : ISBN : 978-1-56512-490-5
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 160x235 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. En. 2774Thème : Littérature

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My Father's Paradise

My father’s paradise: A son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar

A mysterious corner of Iraq. An ancient language a tribe of mystics and magic men, peasants and storytellers vanished history. And a son's epic journey back to his father's lost homeland.

Advance Praise for My father's paradise
"Something rare and precious - a tale of hope and continuity that can be passed on for generations." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Taut and extravagant. A sweeping saga with the cadence of a Biblical tale." - Daniel Asa Rose, author of hiding places: A Father and his sons retrace their family's escape from the Holocaust

"Touching and brilliantly written... It is an incredible story of a man divided among three cultures. The striking discontinuities in Yona Sabar's journey reveal the transformations of an immigrant's life as much as its trials and heartbreak:' - Sammy Smooha, Ph.D., winner of the 2008 Israel Prize for sociology and author of Arabs and Jews in Israel

"An enchanting combination of history, family, and discovery-Ariel Sabar's chronicle of his journey is flat-out wonderful." - Rabbi David Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters

"With the novelistic skill of a Levantine storyteller ... Sabar explores the conflicting demands of love and tradition, the burdens and blessings of an ancient culture encountering the 21st century. A well-researched text falling somewhere between journalism and memoir, sustained by Mesopotamian imagination:' - Kirkus Reviews


"I searched to discover which was the first of all languages. Many have said that the Aramaic is most ancient, and that it is in the nature of man to speak it without having been taught by anyone. Further, that if a newborn child were placed in the desert with no one but a mute wet nurse, he would speak Aramaic."

-Abraham Ibn-Ezra, twelfth-century commentator and linguist


Table des Matières

Contents

A note on method / ix
Introduction / 1

Zakho
1. What's in a name / 9
2. An Island in a river / 12
3. A book with shining pages / 16
4. Rotten corn / 19
5. A surprise / 25
6. The dyer's son / 28
7. Little thumb girl / 31
8. A woman's purpose / 42
9. A prayer to the prophet / 45
10. No Wasted Steps / 48
11. Lost in the land of Assyria / 51
12. Speaking with angels / 57
13. Arabs before jews / 61
14. Plus and minus / 65
15. The mountains are our only friends / 67
16. Freezing in baghdad / 72
17. Hanging / 76
18. Let the hajji speak / 80
19. Can't help this time / 83
20. To hell with books / 87
21. Let my people go / 93
22. A suitable level of civilization / 96
23. God will provide / 102
24. Iraqi stamps / 103

Israel
25. Kissing the ground / 109
26. Where are the Jewish synagogues? / 111
27. Herzl's beard / 117
28. Ana Kurdi / 120
29. Some of the best in Zakho 124
30. John savage / 126
31. Sleepwalking out windows / 134
32. The brotherhood of man / 145
33. Gold / 149

Aramaic
34. Lishana Deni / 155
35. Cleft sentences / 159
36. It's all god's world / 164
37. Hets and 'Ayins / 172
38. Abandoning the fountainhead / 175
39. Exiled and redeemed / 183
40. Systematic description of a Living Dialect / 189
41. Getting Lost / 192

Yale
42. Aramaic for dirges / 197
43. To a deep well / 203
44. Missions / 213
45. A memorial Candle / 218
46. Are they kings? / 220
47. Some enchanted place / 223

Father and son
48. Speechless / 229
49. Hollywood on the Habur / 241
50. Coming of the Messiah / 247
51. Covenants / 254

The return
52. River keeps flowing / 261
53. Time travel / 267
54. Habur / 272
55. Kiss the eyes of your sons / 274
56. Turkish delights or Jordan almonds / 278
57. Heaven sent / 283
58. Chasing phantoms / 287
59. A disaster, god forbid / 291
6o. Kind of a problem / 296
61. Breakdown / 298
62. "The girl, the Jew, is alive." / 301
63. Convenient truths / 308

Conclusion
64. Paradise lost / 315
65. Ice-blended mocha / 318
66. Saba's music / 321

Acknowledgments / 327
Selected bibliography / 329




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