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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.Cernea, Ruth Fredman is the author of 'Almost Englishmen Baghdadi Jews in British Burma', published 2006 under ISBN 9780739116470 and ISBN 0739116479.
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