Ora Jacobi
ASIN: B00A8Z82ES
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 282
At the beginning of World War I, when Assyrian and Armenian genocide occurs the governor of Gawar warns Shlomo, a successful Aramaic-speaking Jewish merchant, against the upcoming events on the Turko-Persian border. “Take your family and flee,” he advises. “Robbers and looters do not distinguish between Jewish and Christian blood.” Almaz and her family flee from Gawar, find refuge in Arbil and later settle in Urmia, where Almaz was born and lived until the age of 12 with her Assyrian friend Ishtar. Memories of her childhood continue chasing Almaz while Urmia is alternately invaded and devastated by the Turks, the Kurds, and the Russians. Determined to do the very best for her children, Almaz sends her daughter to a boys’ school and buys a violin for her son, but refuses adamantly to give up the age-old right of women to choose partners for their offspring. Her struggle ends in Israel ...