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AJ’s Book Club
February 21, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join the AJ Book Club at 2:00 p.m. today at Adath Jeshurun, 2401 Woodbourne Avenue, to discuss The Dove Flyer by Eli Amir, and then stay to see the Jewish Film Festival’s showing at 3:00 p.m. of the movie, The Dove Flyer, based on the novel.
“Between the years 1950-51, close to 130,000 Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.” (imdb.com) “Since Israel’s declaration of statehood in 1948 and the war with invading Arab armies that followed, life had become unbearable for the Jews of Iraq, with threats of violence and physical attacks. At the same time, this novel shows us how deeply attached many Iraqi Jews were to their homes as well as to the Arab culture and language.” (reformjudaism.org)
Eli Amir was born in Baghdad in 1937 and left for Israel in 1950. A prize-winning author, he is also a social activist, once saying in Cairo ‘How can there be peace without us knowing each other?’
For additional information, please contact Deborah Slosberg at 458-5359 or dslsoberg@adathjeshurun.com
