Ruth Fredman Cernea
Before the Second World War, two golden ’promised lands’ beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which ’the sun never set,’ and the promised land of their religious tradition, Jerusalem. Almost Englishmen studies the less well-known of these destinations. The book combines history and cultural studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews.
