Monday, 5 September 2011

Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan



Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan
(Jewish Identities in a Changing World)
Mordechai Zaken
Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: BRILL (August 2007)
Language: English


This volume deals with the experience and the position of non-tribal Jewish subjects and their relationships with their tribal chieftains (aghas) in urban centers and villages in Kurdistan. It is based on new oral sources, diligently collected and carefully analyzed. This book contains numerous accounts that portrait vividly the life experience of Jews from 6 different towns (Zaxo/Zakho, Aqra, Amadia/Amadiya, Dohuk, Sulaimaniya and Shinno/Ushno/Ushnoviyya) and dozens of villages mainly in southern Kurdistan.


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