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Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad by Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman (Translator) Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 1-56792-336-4 / 1567923364 ISBN-13: 978-1-56792-336-0 / 9781567923360 From the melting pot that was Iraqi society comes a tale, recounted by a grand old man of Canadian letters, of growing up as a Jewish boy in Baghdad in the 1940s.Naim Kattan was born into an intellectual Jewish family in Baghdad in 1928. He, his brother, and his friend Nessim were the only Jews in a |