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ajiss-1497	Monaghan, Sean	The Last Jews of Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland by Nissim Rejwan (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 268 pages.)	2008.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1136	33	38	Yet their centuries- long presence was such that, as the author notes, for those Jews who were born and grew up in Baghdad before the mass exodus of 1950-51, the pres- ence of a mere handful of elderly Jews in the city today is “a state of affairs [that] is hard to imagine” (p. 1). “It is all but impossible to pinpoint a date or an event with which the position of the Jews of Iraq began to deteriorate and take the course leading finally, Book Reviews 121 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.software-partners.co.uk http://www.software-partners.co.uk http://www.software-partners.co.uk inevitably, to the destruction of community,” writes Nissim Rejwan near the end of his memoir The Last Jews of Baghdad (p. 188).	cache/ajiss-1497.pdf	txt/ajiss-1497.txt