{"product_id":"history-jews-baghdad-9817tuih","title":"A History of the Jews of Baghdad.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA scarce and valuable history of the Jewish community of Baghdad. \u003cstrong\u003eThis example has the rare dust-jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the time of its publication, there was very little English-Language scholarship on the Babylonian heritage of Jewish communities in the Near and Middle East. Solomon Sassoon, whose ancestors had lived in Baghdad, decided to compile a history of that community: \u003cstrong\u003e“This, I believe, is the first attempt which has been made to collect and group together various data about the Jews in Baghdad in order to describe their literature, their spiritual lay leaders, their synagogues and shrines, schools and charities.”\u003c\/strong\u003e (p.vi).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting work is a landmark in Jewish studies, with particularly strong sections on important individuals in the community from around 1750 to 1900, describing their lives and contributions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48721235968157,"sku":"263259","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/history-jews-baghdad-9817tuih","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}