'SUPERBLY READABLE AN ASTONISHING RECORD' - William Shawcross

Date: Saturday 1 March 2008

Time: 8.00 for 8.15pm

Venue: The Spiro Ark Centre - 25-26 Enford St, W1

MEMORIES OF EDEN, based on unpublished memoirs, is a moving evocation of what daily life was like for the Jews of Iraq, from Ottoman times to World War Two.

The book also contains original research revealing for the first time the truth about the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom that sounded the death-knell for the oldest community in the Diaspora.

‘It is full of detail: the heat, the holy days, the ritual, the food, smells and sounds of the souq; the river Tigris; the costumes and clothes people wore; schooldays and rides on donkey-back before motorised transport became available... a treasure house of information.’ – Professor Shmuel Moreh, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Published 21 February  Forum Books  £14.99  ISBN 978-0-9557095-0-0

Copies available at a special discount at the event.

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