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When his Uncle Hizkel is arrested, Kabi and his family face an uncertain future as do all Jews living in Baghdad. It is 1950 and each member of Kabi's circle has a different dream: his mother wants to return to the Moslem quarter where she felt safer; his father wants to emigrate to Israel and grow rice there; Salim, his headmaster, wants Arabs and Jews to be equal, and Abu Edouard just wants to care for his adored doves.
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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?'
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This review is from: The Dove Flyer (Paperback)
There has been a slew of books recently, some immensely powerful and moving, about the effects of the establishment of the State of Israel on the native Palestinian population, the expulsions, demolitions and terror that saw many of them leave as refugees, never to return. Far fewer books have been written from the opposite perspective, of the effect on the Jews of Arab lands of the creation of the Jewish State, and the specific and terrible way in which it affected their lives and sent them from countries their ancestors had inhabited for thousands of years to a new land with which many of them had very little in common.
The Dove Flyer tells the story in microcosm of the fate of Iraqi Jewry at this time, and an unforgettable story it is too. The main protagonists all live in the `new' Jewish quarter of Baghdad to which they have been forced to move for their own protection after the terrible Farhood riots. The narrator is Kabi, whose father is a settled and established Jewish Iraqi, thoroughly acculturated and at home in the Muslim milieu; he will have no truck with the Zionists who are already organising within the Jewish community and drawing the unwelcome attention of the secret police...at least until his brother Hizkel, a Zionist, is arrested and taken off to prison to await trial and a possible death sentence. As the family, their friends, neighbours and enemies come to terms with what has occurred, the ground gradually shifts beneath them all, causing new friendships to develop and old ones to break. Eli Amir weaves a rich tapestry of Iraqi Jewish life, and the effects of events beyond their control on ordinary and extra-ordinary human beings alike. This is a magnificent novel, as well as being beautifully written, and it acts as a powerful reminder that when the State of Israel was established, and became an almost God-given haven for the persecuted Jews of Europe, it also had a terrible effect on the Jews of the Middle East for whom a Jewish state was an alien concept and who were - albeit with many compromises - quite comfortable where they were and had been for centuries. The Dove Flyer is not a book to miss.
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the Dove Flyer by Eli Amir,
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This review is from: The Dove Flyer (Paperback)
This book was wonderful as you almost tasted how it is to live in Bagdad. The environment was enveloping in the book while the characters seem to archetypes of set family types-- the mother not wanting to leave the home, but rising to the challenge in the end-- the father leaving his brother behind, always striving to replace his losses. his physical image being so important is a typical character of trait of that man.
I really got the feeling of leaving your homeland, but was disappointed in the rabbi and many of the politicians. I guess the autho truly made the reader feel part of the ripping away of the homeland. |
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