Nostalgia to the land of Mesopotamia in the novels of Iraqi Jews in the Diaspora

Abstract

The writers of the Iraqi Jewish community have distinguished themselves in their literary productions, which they invented after they were expelled from their original homeland. They recorded their true suffering and tragedy after uprooting their roots from Iraq. Many wrote about the conditions of the Jews of Iraq and their cultural heritage in terms of social, economic, historical and literary through nostalgia to Baghdad, and since the social composition of any minority must be affected by the majority within the scope of the impact was significant in the customs and traditions of the Jewish community, Arab countries, which included Jewish communities as well as Western societies, but less so, since these minorities were living in isolation in the communities of the ghetto and the sense of belonging was not the same as the case of Iraqi Jews and Jews in the countries Arabic, so the majority of the writers of the Jewish community of Iraq succeeded if not all of them in the writing of their literary output, which was going on in Iraq more than it was in Palestine