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17 августа 2017 года

Dutch novel on Jews of Kurdistan released in Kurdish

 
The Kurdish translation of a Dutch novel recounting the lost, albeit recent history of Jews in Kurdistan and Iraq met readers in Erbil on Wednesday at an event the book's author and journalist Judit Neurink organized.

Neurink's book, a work of fiction, centers around the lives of two women; one, Rahilla who lives in Kurdistan in the 1940s at the very onset of Jewish flight from Iraq to the Mandatory Palestine; the other, Zara a modern day character who comes across the former's story through a diary.

Rahilla's story, and that of Zara, are examples of a well-known phenomenon among non-Muslims in Muslim-majority countries when survival comes at a high stake; a conversion to Islam yet secret preservation of one's original heritage against a full religious assimilation.

Source: kurdistan24.net