Cynthia Kaplan Shamash: 1 book
The Strangers We Became
Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned to their home...
