Daughters of Iraq (27 page)

Chapter Thirty-Six: Noa (third person, Noa’s POV)

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Violet (first person, Violet’s POV)

Tuesday, April 7, 1987

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Violet (first person, Violet’s POV)

Wednesday, April 8, 1987

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Noa (third person, Noa’s POV)

Chapter Forty: Farida (third person, Farida’s POV)

Chapter Forty-One: Violet (first person, Violet’s POV)

Monday, May 11, 1987)

Chapter Forty-Two: Noa (first person (via a letter), Noa’s POV)

Friday, October 15, 1993

Chapter Forty-Three: Dan (first person (via journal entries), Dan’s POV)

Various dates in 1987 and 1988

Chapter Forty-Four: Noa (third person, Noa’s POV)

names — places, things

Achziv River

Baghdad

Basra

B’nei Brak (city in Israel east of Tel Aviv)

Carmel Mountains (in Israel)

Chaim Nachman Bialik (Israeli national poet)

Chara (Iraqi town)

Chidekel River (in Iraq)

Chifel (village outside of Hili)

Devorah Omer (Israeli writer, born 1932)

Eilat (Israel’s southernmost city)

Farid al-Atrash (Iraqi musician)

Haman (vizier of the Persian empire; antagonist in the book of Esther)

Hili (city in Iraq)

Hilla

Hillel Yaffe Hospital

Kinneret (Israeli spa and hotel)

Leila Mauraud (Iraqi musician)

Lod (an Israeli city on the Sharon Plain, 9 miles southeast of Tel Aviv)

Nahariya (city?)

Netanya (city in Israel)

Petach Tikvah (city in Israel)

Ramat Gan (Tel Aviv suburb)

Ramle (town in Israel)

Sidney Ali Beach

Silon (Israeli cigarette brand)

Technion

Tel Aviv

Tel Hashomer

Tenuvah (Israel’s main dairy)

Zichron Ya’akov (town in Israel, 35 miles south of Haifa)

caps / small caps

eras in small caps

foreign words/expressions

aba
(means “dad” in Hebrew)

aba’le
(diminutive form of “dad”)

Aliyah
(“ascent”—basic tenet of Zionist ideology)

al burian
(fluently)

allah yirchama

Ana Araf

Ashkenazi
(Jews of central and eastern Europe)

baba
(yeast cookies)

bagrut
exams

bar mitzvah
(coming of age ceremony for boys)

bat mitzvah
(coming of age ceremony for girls)

Bint Ruven
(the daughter of Ruven?)

brit
(rite of circumcision)

chai
(“life” or “living”)

chalri

chubiz
(Iraqi bread)

finjan
(coffee pot?)

gute
(?)

hanachat tefillin

ima
(means “mom” in Hebrew)

jazira
(tiny islands)

jifa
(?)

ka’kaat
(small pretzel)

kibbutz

kibbutzim

krayot

kubot

lady-ot
(Hebrew for “lady”?)

lirot
(Israeli currency?)

ma’abara
(transit camp)

ma’amul
(date-filled cookies)

machbuz
(Jewish/Iraqi pastries)

matanah
(gift)

matateh
(broom)

megillah
(scroll containing the biblical narrative of the book of Esther)

mitzvah
(a good deed)

mitzvot

mkhalela
(turnips steeped in saltwater; pickles)

mlabas
(a dessert)

moshav
(settlement?)

Moshiac
(Messiah)

nu

Pesach
(passover?)

Purim
(a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Adar in

commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from destruction by

Haman)

sambusak bejiben
(a cheese-filled pastry)

savta
(grandmother)

Shabbat
(the Sabbath)

Shabbat Shalom

Sha’ar Aliyah

Shavuat
(Spring holiday—knows as “Visitor’s Day” in Iraq)

shehechiyanu blessing

“Shehechiyanu v’kimanu v’higianu lazman hazeh, amen.”

Shevit
(a large fish: turbot)

Shumash
(the best school in Iraq)

tefellin
ceremony

Tena Maca

tfadal

tum ajam
(garlic marinated in salt and curry)

tvit
(chicken with rice?)

ud
(fat-bellied guitar)

ulpan

Um Anwar
(mother of Anwar—what townspeople called Farida and Violet’s

Mom; Anwar = Farida and Violet’s brother; Gorjiya’s first-born)

“
Wai li
,” exclaimed Naima.

walla

“
Ya’allah
,” I begged.

ya binati

Ya buya
(Arabic; exclamation of woe)

ya walli

Yishayahu
(Isaiah)

zangula
(honey-dipped pastry)

zemirot
(Jewish hymns)

ornaments / other

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Violet Rosen

Chapter Two: Farida Sasson

Chapter Three: Noa Rosen

Chapter Four: At Aunt Farida’s

Chapter Five: Farida

Chapter Six: Violet

Chapter Seven: Farida and Ruthie

Chapter Eight: The Bar Mitzvah

Chapter Nine: Noa

Chapter Ten: Violet

Chapter  Eleven: Noa

Chapter Twelve: Violet

Chapter Thirteen: Farida

Chapter Fourteen: Violet

Chapter Fifteen: Noa

Chapter Sixteen: Violet

Chapter Seventeen: Noa

Chapter Eighteen: Farida

Chapter Nineteen: Violet

Chapter Twenty: Noa

Chapter Twenty-One: Violet

Chapter Twenty-Two: Farida

Chapter Twenty-Three: Violet

Chapter Twenty-Four: Noa

Chapter Twenty-Five: Violet

Chapter Twenty-Six: Farida

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Violet

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Noa

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Farida

Chapter Thirty: Violet

Chapter Thirty-One: Noa

Chapter Thirty-Two: Violet

Chapter Thirty-Three: Noa

Chapter Thirty-Four: Violet, Winter of 1951

Chapter Thirty-Five: Farida

Chapter Thirty-Six: Noa

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Violet

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Violet

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Noa

Chapter Forty: Farida

Chapter Forty-One: Violet

Chapter Forty-Two: Noa

Chapter Forty-Three: Dan

Chapter Forty-Four: Noa