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Corona Crisis Chronicles

Three Cs in a Row

By: Rejwan Ali

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No one likes C in one’s academic transcripts even for a single instance. So consecutive Cs can really be stumbling and shattering for one’s academic trajectory. However, contrast to campus test performances, in practical world settings and in fact in most cases persons with Cs excel over than persons with As in terms of real tasks and deliverances. So people with wisdom often raise caution against such segregation of letter grade to project future of immensely hidden potentials or overhyped expectations. Themed in that this thin book is intended to revive English readership in Bangladesh through some personal memoirs/satire. Bangladesh, a poor country plagued with natural disaster and a big population without much historical perception for British colonial heritages. Inefficient national politics and policies, over usage of local languages/dialects in cultural growth have resulted in blind alleys for degenerated academia, art, culture, and literature. Based on thirteen FaceBook postings during the Corona world pandemic, the memoirs/satire can serve as a person’s flashback of that society after living in a cosmopolitan cultural melting point and multi-cultural environment of New York City. It is expected that the book will appeal to local readers in subcontinents and also to second-generation English-speaking population of Bangladesh origins, in places like New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, Los Angels, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and other places aside from interested mainstream readers.

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The Last Jews in Baghdad

Remembering a Lost Homeland

By: Nissim Rejwan

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The Last Jews in Baghdad

Remembering a Lost Homeland

By: Nissim Rejwan

This memoir of life in the Iraqi capital’s Jewish community is “a rare look—detailed and vivid—into a culture that is no longer extant” (Nancy E. Berg, author of Exile from Exile: Israeli Writers from Iraq). Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city’s people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad’s cultural and commercial life. On the city’s streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians—all native-born Iraqis—intermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight it seemed, the state of Israel was born, and lines were drawn between Jews and Arabs. Over the next couple of years, nearly the entire Jewish population of Baghdad fled their Iraqi homeland, never to return. In this beautifully written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which he was a child and young man from the 1920s through 1951. He paints a minutely detailed picture of growing up in a barely middle-class family, dealing with a motley assortment of neighbors and landlords, struggling through the local schools, and finally discovering the pleasures of self-education and sexual awakening. Rejwan intertwines his personal story with the story of the cultural renaissance that was flowering in Baghdad during the years of his young manhood, describing how his work as a bookshop manager and a staff writer for the Iraq Times brought him friendships with many of the country’s leading intellectual and literary figures. He rounds off his story by remembering how the political and cultural upheavals that accompanied the founding of Israel, as well as broad hints sent back by the first arrivals in the new state, left him with a deep ambivalence as he bid a last farewell to a homeland that had become hostile to its native Jews.

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University of Texas Press

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0292774427

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9780292774421

The Jews Of Iraq

3000 Years Of History And Culture

By: Nissim Rejwan

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The Jews Of Iraq

3000 Years Of History And Culture

By: Nissim Rejwan

This book provides an account of the Jews of Iraq, their history, culture and society. It covers the Iraqi Jewish history in three parts: from the Assyrian Captivity to the Arab Conquest (731 bc–ad 641); the encounter with Islam (641–1850); and the last hundred years (1850–1951).

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Routledge

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1000302792

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Arabs in the Mirror

Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times

By: Nissim Rejwan

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Arabs in the Mirror

Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times

By: Nissim Rejwan

What is an Arab? Though many in the West would answer that question with simplistic stereotypes, the reality is far more complex and interesting. Arabs themselves have been debating Arab identity since pre-Islamic times, coming to a variety of conclusions about the nature and extent of their “Arabness.” Likewise, Westerners and others have attempted to analyze Arab identity, reaching mostly negative conclusions about Arab culture and capacity for self-government. To bring new perspectives to the question of Arab identity, Iraqi-born scholar Nissim Rejwan has assembled this fascinating collection of writings by Arab and Western intellectuals, who try to define what it means to be Arab. He begins with pre-Islamic times and continues to the last decades of the twentieth century, quoting thinkers ranging from Ibn Khaldun to modern writers such as al-Ansari, Haykal, Ahmad Amin, al-'Azm, and Said. Through their works, Rejwan shows how Arabs have grappled with such significant issues as the influence of Islam, the rise of nationalism, the quest for democracy, women's status, the younger generation, Egypt's place in the Arab world, Israel's role in Middle Eastern conflict, and the West's "cultural invasion." By letting Arabs speak for themselves, Arabs in the Mirror refutes a prominent Western stereotype—that Arabs are incapable of self-reflection or self-government. On the contrary, it reveals a rich tradition of self-criticism and self-knowledge in the Arab world.

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University of Texas Press

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0292774451

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9780292774452

Outsider in the Promised Land

An Iraqi Jew in Israel

By: Nissim Rejwan

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Outsider in the Promised Land

An Iraqi Jew in Israel

By: Nissim Rejwan

In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the politically and socially dominant Jewish leadership hailing from Eastern Europe and the more numerous Oriental Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Into this volatile mix came Nissim Rejwan, a young Iraqi Jewish intellectual who was to become one of the country's leading public intellectuals and authors. Beginning with Rejwan's arrival in 1951 and climaxing with the tensions preceding Israel's victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, this book colorfully chronicles Israel's internal and external struggles to become a nation, as well as the author's integration into a complex culture. Rejwan documents how the powerful East European leadership, acting as advocates of Western norms and ideals, failed to integrate Israel into the region and let the country take its place as a part of the Middle East. Rejwan's essays and occasional articles are an illuminating example of how minority groups use journalism to gain influence in a society. Finally, the letters and diary entries reproduced in Outsider in the Promised Land are full of lively, witty meditations on history, literature, philosophy, education, and art, as well as one man's personal struggle to find his place in a new nation.

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0292774435

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Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur

From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada

By: Nissim Rejwan

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Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur

From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada

By: Nissim Rejwan

On the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was nineteen years old and as much an adolescent as the average nineteen-year-old person. Issues of identity and transition were the talk among Israeli intellectuals, including the writer Nissim Rejwan. Was Israel a Jewish state or a democratic state? And, most frustratingly, who was a Jew? As Nancy Berg's foreword makes clear, these issues became more critical and complex in the two decades after the war as Israel matured into a regional power. Rejwan, an Iraqi-born Jew whose own fate was tied to the answers, addresses the questions of those days in his letters, essays, and remembrances collected in Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur. Israel's overwhelming victory in 1967 brought control of the former Palestinian territories; at the same time, Oriental Jews (i.e., those not from Europe) became a majority in the Israeli population. The nation, already surrounded by hostile, recently humiliated Arab neighbors, now had an Arab majority (Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and Christian) within its borders—yet European Jews continued to run the country as their own. Rejwan wrote tirelessly about the second-class status of Arab Israelis (and especially of Arab Jews), encouraging a more inclusive attitude that might eventually help heal the wounds left by the Six-Day War. His studies in sociology at Tel Aviv University informed his work. For his cause, Rejwan lost his job and many of his friends but never his pen. Through Munich, Entebbe, political scandals, economic crises, and the beginning of the Intifada, Rejwan narrates Israel's growing pains with feisty wit and unwavering honesty.

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0292774443

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Corona Crisis Chronicles

Corona Crisis Chronicles

The Last Jews in Baghdad

The Last Jews in Baghdad

The Jews Of Iraq

The Jews Of Iraq

Arabs in the Mirror

Arabs in the Mirror

Outsider in the Promised Land

Outsider in the Promised Land

Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur

Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur

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