Product Description Nissim Rejwan’s writings in To Live in Two Worlds: The Pains of Displacement reflect a profound sense of loss. The book includes segments of The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland which he dedicated to Elie Kedourie, his co-religionist and literary mentor. But he also included in the dedication three Muslim fellow writers whose lives like his swirled around the activities of Baghdad’s Al-Rabita Bookshop: Najib al-Mani, Adnan Raouf, and Buland el-Haidari. The affinities of these men were not consciously spiritual. They came naturally and unselfconsciously in their Abrahamic relationship. There is an aphorism quoted in The Last Jews of Baghdad that Rejwan repeats in To Live in Two Worlds. It is from Louise Gluck, “Adult Grief”: “Because you were foolish enough to love one place, now you are homeless.” In various ways this sentiment is reflected in comments in the new book by other Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries There is a good deal of nostalgia and a significant measure of mourning. ___________
