Three Worlds av Avi Shlaim

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<B>A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews</B><BR><BR><B>In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel.</B><BR><BR><B>''Remarkable.'' Max Hastings, <I>THE SUNDAY TIMES</I></B><BR><BR>Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.<BR><BR>Why so? One explanation speaks of the timeless clash between Arab and Jewish civilisations and a heroic Zionist mission to rescue Eastern Jews from backward nations and unceasing persecution.<BR><BR>Avi Shlaim tears up this script. His parents had many Muslim friends in Baghdad and no interest in Zionism. As anti-Semitism surged in Iraq, the Zionist underground fanned the flames. Yet when Iraqi Jews fled to Israel, they faced an uncertain future, their history was rewritten to serve a Zionist narrative.<BR><BR>This memoir breathes life into an al