My Father's Paradise : A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq (Hardcover)

from clik4

Once again, I am thrilled to have been selected by LibraryThing to review a pre-publication book: My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar. It is an interesting book on many levels. It is the story of a young man's perspective on his immigrant father. His father, Yona, was a much loved son whose famil...

from Miela

I know that the term "reads like fiction" is vastly overused in descriptions of memoirs, however, I feel that Sabar's work merits its use. Along with being the history of a cultural group that I knew little about, it is also a very personal story of a family and their struggles in three countries...

from jeanie1

The cultural schism between father and son is the backdrop of a fascinating story combining history, geneology and the struggle of a family caught between the traditions of Kurdish Iraq and the fast paced world of the 21st century. The father, working to preserving Aramaic, the language of Jesus ...

from ilovemycat1

Incredibly well written, moving and compelling book about the author's father- Yona Sabar, a linguistic professor at UCLA, whose roots and early life were in Kurdistan. Uprooted from Iraq in the early 1950's the family then settles in Israel, where prejudice and hard times prevail. Yona, through ...

from bostonian71

A compelling narrative that serves both to illuminate the world and experience of Iraqi Kurdish Jews, and the journey of one particular one (the author's father) from Kurdistan to Israel to Los Angeles, where he becomes an authority on the disappearing language of his boyhood. Ariel Sabar writes ...