Sabar once looked at his [immigrant] father with shame, scornful of the alien who still bore scars on his back from childhood bloodlettings.
This powerful book is an improbable story of tolerance and hope set in what today is the very center of the world\'s attention..
Ariel Sabar brings to life the ancient town of Zakho, discovering his family\'s place in the sweeping saga of Middle-Eastern history.
Ariel wanted nothing to do with his father\'s strange immigrant heritage--until he had a son of his own.
Yona\'s son Ariel grew up in Los Angeles, where Yona had become an esteemed professor, dedicating his career to preserving his people\'s traditions.
To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq.
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
This book, he writes, is a chance to make amends.--New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Sabar once looked at his [immigrant] father with shame, scornful of the alien who still bore scars on his back from childhood bloodlettings
