ABSTRACT
Autobiographies, Arab-Jews and Iraqi Education Historians tend to work within the national languages of the communities they study. In the Iraqi case, Arabic source material is oen used to explore Iraq’s modern history. However, the existence of Iraqi diasporic and exilic communities means that Iraqi history is mediated in other languages as well. In this chapter, I discuss Hebrew autobiographies as a way of illuminating the manners in which Iraqi education had instilled a sense of Iraqi patriotism and Arab nationalism amongst its young members. I likewise explore the modes in which such narratives expose the limits of the state’s power.
