Farewell to Dejla.

Farewell to Dejla

Tova Murad Sadka

Academy Chicago Publishers

363 W. Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60654

9780897335812, $16.95, www.academychicago.com

What is not public knowledge is that Iraq holds one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. "Farewell to Dejla: Stories of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile" is a collection of these stories with a focus on how a good majority of these people who stayed there for thousands of years finally fled to Israel upon its formation. Their story, not often heard, is a fascinating one for historians seeking to learn about Jews around the world.