Ebook {Epub PDF} Daughters of Iraq by Revital Shiri-Horowitz

A latticework of personal tragedies and cultural history underpins Shiri-Horowitz’s debut novel about immigrant lives in Israel, translated from the Hebrew by Shira Atik. Violet and Farida Twaina, the youngest daughters of a Jewish Iraqi family, find their lives upended during “The Exodus” in the s, when Jews fled the country to escape retaliation during the creation of Israel. Revital Shiri-Horowitz's "Daughters of Iraq" weaves together the stories of three women: Two Jewish-Iraqi sisters Farida and Violet growing up and then fleeing Baghdad for Israel, and Violet's daughter Noa, living in modern Israel. As the story begins, Violet has died, and Noa is seeking her way in life/5(71).  · "Daughters of Iraq" by Revital Shiri-Horowitz is a touching and informative read, the story of three women from the same family as they live as Jews in Iraq and Israel. The story is told in alternating episodes jumping between three eras: Iraq in the s and its seemingly happy Jewish community as it falls apart after the creation of Israel/5(47).

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A latticework of personal tragedies and cultural history underpins Shiri-Horowitz’s debut novel about immigrant lives in Israel, translated from the Hebrew by Shira Atik. Violet and Farida Twaina, the youngest daughters of a Jewish Iraqi family, find their lives upended during “The Exodus” in the s, when Jews fled the country to escape retaliation during the creation of Israel. Daughters of Iraq. Daughters of Iraq” is the compelling story of three women from the same family. It is the story of emigration from Iraq to Israel in the early ’s as experienced by two sisters: Violet, whom we learn about through a diary she kept after being diagnosed with a critical illness Read More. Revital Shiri-Horowitz's "Daughters of Iraq" weaves together the stories of three women: Two Jewish-Iraqi sisters Farida and Violet growing up and then fleeing Baghdad for Israel, and Violet's daughter Noa, living in modern Israel. As the story begins, Violet has died, and Noa is seeking her way in life.