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Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home

Claudette E. Sutton

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Description:The Jews of Aleppo, Syria, had been part of the city's fabric for more than two thousand years, in good times and bad, through conquerors and kings. But in the middle years of the twentieth century, all that changed. To Selim Sutton, a merchant with centuries of roots in the Syrian soil, the dangers of rising anti-Semitism made clear that his family must find a new home. With several young children and no prospect of securing visas to the United States, he devised a savvy plan for getting his family out: "exporting" his sons. In January of 1941, he put his two oldest — the author's father and his brother — on a ship to Shanghai to work in an uncle’s export business, with hopes that China might provide short-term harbor and serve as a steppingstone to the United States. War and ill health intervened. One of the brothers became ill with tuberculosis and was sent back to Aleppo. Their uncle barely escaped on the last ship to sail to the United States before Japan seized Shanghai on Dec. 8, 1941, a day after bombing Pearl Harbor, leaving Mike, the author's father, alone in Shanghai, enduring increasing adversity under Japanese occupation until the end of the war, when he could at last come to the United States and help the rest of his family escape Aleppo. Multiple threads come richly together as Sutton deftly observes her family from inside and outside the fold, shares an important and nearly forgotten epoch of Jewish history, and explores universal questions of identity, family, and culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home. To get started finding Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2014

ISBN: 1938288408

Description: The Jews of Aleppo, Syria, had been part of the city's fabric for more than two thousand years, in good times and bad, through conquerors and kings. But in the middle years of the twentieth century, all that changed. To Selim Sutton, a merchant with centuries of roots in the Syrian soil, the dangers of rising anti-Semitism made clear that his family must find a new home. With several young children and no prospect of securing visas to the United States, he devised a savvy plan for getting his family out: "exporting" his sons. In January of 1941, he put his two oldest — the author's father and his brother — on a ship to Shanghai to work in an uncle’s export business, with hopes that China might provide short-term harbor and serve as a steppingstone to the United States. War and ill health intervened. One of the brothers became ill with tuberculosis and was sent back to Aleppo. Their uncle barely escaped on the last ship to sail to the United States before Japan seized Shanghai on Dec. 8, 1941, a day after bombing Pearl Harbor, leaving Mike, the author's father, alone in Shanghai, enduring increasing adversity under Japanese occupation until the end of the war, when he could at last come to the United States and help the rest of his family escape Aleppo. Multiple threads come richly together as Sutton deftly observes her family from inside and outside the fold, shares an important and nearly forgotten epoch of Jewish history, and explores universal questions of identity, family, and culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home. To get started finding Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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