Zvi Yehuda and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, "The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption" (Brill, 2024)

In this episode we spoke with Marian Scheuer Sofaer, Esquire, and Dr. Einav Yehuda-Shnaidman about The Expulsion of Jews from Iraq, 20th Century: The Agonies of Redemption (Brill, 2024), by Dr. Zvi Yehuda, and translated by Sofaer.

Dr. Zvi Yehuda, born in Iraq in 1936, immigrated to Israel

as a teenager during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah and went on to complete

a PhD in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, later founding

and heading the research institute at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage

Center. He began to write the book in 1984, in a conversation with

former Knesset Speaker Shlomo Hillel, and grew into a forty-year project

of archival research across Israel, the United Kingdom, France, the

United States, and Iraq, conducted in Hebrew, English, French, German

and Judeo-Arabic. Yehuda passed away before he could complete editing

the English translation; his daughter, Dr. Einav Yehuda-Shnaidman,

together with Sofaer, brought the English edition to completion.