Sunday, June 20, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Iraqi Jew's memoirs shake up Arab intellectuals - 'Must-read article, Baghdad revisited by Ksenia Svetlova of the Jerusalem Post: one Israeli's memoirs of his difficult life as a Jew in Baghdad in the 1940s, published on the Arabic news website Elaph, has got Arab intellectuals and opinion-formers to do some serious soul-searching on how the Arab world treated its Jews. By refusing to sugar-coat the Jewish experience in Arab countries, Professor Shmuel Moreh does more for reconciliation with the Arab world than any interfaith or coexistence initiative...'
