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Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma
Almost Englishmen Baghdadi Jews in British Burma Author: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 ... more »studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews.« less