Emil Murad, teacher and educator, is a graduate of The American College in Baghdad. Author of two books in Hebrew, "Babylon in the Underground" and "My Friends, The Kurds", he is the author of "Deep Into The Soul", published in the USA, and three poetry books in Hebrew and in English. He was chosen as Poet of the Month, USA, for his poetry book "Rose Petals Down the Stream" and is a Bearer of the Institute of Bankers Certificate, London, writer of several articles and short stories published in Great Britain, United States and South Africa, and has won awards for outstanding achievement in poetry. He was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate in English Literature from the Dean of Marlborough University, Great Britain for his impressive achievements in the field of English literature, poetry and prose.
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by Emil Murad
Life prior to 1941 had been wonderful for the Jews
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of Babylonia, modern-day Iraq. They achieved great success in many fields and got along well with their Arab neighbors. But a pogrom on Shavuot, 1941 devastated the Jewish community, and from then on, Jews sought ways to leave the country.
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Emil describes the meeting with Abrashka, a veteran
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Kibbutz member who visits the cemetery, and remembers all the dead. His belief was “We the living … they the heroes!"
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On Yom Kippur morning, October 6, 1973, Emil Murad
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went for a nature walk enjoying the peace and beauty of God's creation. But on that fateful day as he approached the synagogue, the sirens announced the beginning of that traumatic war. Emil was called up for military duty and although he survived the war unharmed, he questions God's ways and fears for the future of Israel.
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Spring conjures up scenes from childhood, and fills
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you with youth, energy, vim and love for life. Read Emil Murad's words on the thrill and joys of spring, and the poems that have inspired him
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Emil Murad tells the story of how he illicitly escaped
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from his home in Bagdad in 1948-9 as part of a group of 20 teenagers, in an attempt to reach Israel via Iran. The journey was fraught with danger – “To be caught was to be hanged.”
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The comfortable, and then dangerous, lives of Iraq's
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Jews are the overarching theme of two stories told in two voices; a young Jewish woman and the author, who both left clandestinely with the help of Israel, both with a bitterness toward the land of their birth.
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Monument unveiling brings back vivid memories. In Or
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Yehuda in 1966, Emil Murad attended the unveiling of a monument commemorating the Iraqi heros Yosef Basri and Salah Shalom, who engineered the escape of over ten thousand young Jews from Iraq to Iran, and on to Israel. The two were accused of planting a bomb in the U.S. library in Baghdad and were executed on January 19, 1952.
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Emil Murad