(Memoir, 325 pp. 2008)
Ariel Sabar’s father, Yona, grew up in the northern Iraqi village of Zakho, a place so remote that the Kurdish Jews who lived there still spoke the ancient language of Aramaic. Ariel, a journalist who grew up in Los Angeles, explores his father’s devotion to preserving the stories, folkways, and language of his past.
Review with discussion questions from the Jewish Book Council
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