The Jews of Kurdistan - Lecture by Yona Sabar & Ariel Sabar

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Thursday June 28, the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, London.
Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at UCLA, Shared his memories of growing up in a Jewish family in Kurdistan in the 1940's. His son, Ariel Sabar, author of the award winning book, My Father's Paradise, talked about 'Paradise Lost and Found', the history of the Jews of Kurdistan and his father's inspiring life story.
The evening also featured the first public exhibition of some outstanding and historic images of Iraq photographed during the 1940's by Anthony Kersting - from the archive at The Courtauld Institute of Arts' Conway Library - presented by Gulan with kind permission of the Institute.