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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America

From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America

Marshall, Jack

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ISBN10: 1566891744
ISBN13: 9781566891745
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Oct 1 2005
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A stirring portrait of personal and artistic awakening in midcentury New York's Arabic-speaking Jewish community.

Born in 1936 to an Iraqi father and Syrian mother who had immigrated to the United States, Jack Marshall grew up in Brooklyn's Sephardic community. Inspired by the posthumous discovery of letters written by his father but never mailed, and colored equally by Arabic culture, Jewish tradition, and a thriving American metropolis, Marshall's memoir is a lyrical story of an era, a city, a little-known community, and an artist's coming-of-age. As Marshall evokes the magic of youth and discovery, he creates a moving tribute to the power of literature and its place in furthering his negotiation of language, culture, family strife, and issues of education, faith, and politics.

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