Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma

ISBN-13: 9780739116463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 202 str.

Ruth Fredman Cernea

Opis

Before the Second World War, two golden "promised lands" beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which "the sun never set," and the promised land of their religious tradition, Jerusalem. Almost Englishmen studies the less well-known of these destinations. The book combines history and cultural studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews.