Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood

About the Book

Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood depicts personal and family scenes, episodes, experiences, and impressions of the author’s early life in Baghdad. Topics include the author’s life in a newly-built house in Kutchet es-Sa’ad, his al-Azeel and al-Watani school experiences, his passion for American and British films, his merchant brothers in the Shorja market, his family’s enduring interest in Arabic music and musical instruments, observance of Sabbath and holy days, swimming lessons in the Tigris, the bustling al-Rasheed Street, trips to Kifel and Ba’quba, and delightful nights on the Jazra

The author’s childhood in Baghdad, from early 1940’s to about mid-1951, is viewed and portrayed in generally positive and happy light.

Blame for the displacement and gradual liquidation of Babylonian Jewry is put on European political Zionists and their machinations.

Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood is an autobiographical, personal account of the author’s childhood in his beloved city of Baghdad.

About the Author

Dr. Victor Sasson grew up in Baghdad. He is British-educated and holds degrees from the University of London and an American doctorate. Formerly, Senior Lecturer in Semitic Languages at the University of South Africa, Member of the Society for Old Testament Study (U.K.), and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. A biblical scholar and specialist in Hebrew and Aramaic Epigraphy, he has also published four novels, a play, and poetry. His Essays From Occupied Holy Land appeared in 2010.