Anwar Shaul

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Anwar Shā’ūl
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Native name
أنور شاؤول
Born1904
Hillah, Iraq
DiedDecember 14, 1984
LanguageHebrew, Arabic
Nationality Iraq

Anwar Shā’ūl (Hebrew: אנואר שאול‎, Arabic: أنور شاؤول‎, 1904–1984) was an Iraqi Jewish journalist, publisher, author, translator, and poet.

Shaul was born in Hillah in 1904 to a second generation Austrian-Iraqi mother and a Mizrahi father.[1][2] He originally trained as a lawyer at the Baghdad Law College, graduating in 1931.[3][4] Shaul served as editor of the Arabic-language Iraqi Zionist journal, al-Miṣbāḥ (Hebrew: אל-מצבאח‎, Arabic: المصباح‎), from 1924 to 1925.[5] In his contributions to the publication, Shaul wrote under the pseudonym Ibn al-Samaw'al (an allusion to the poet, Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya).[6]

From 1929 to 1938, Shaul founded and worked as editor of Al Hassid (Arabic: الحاصد‎, lit. 'The Reaper'), a weekly literary magazine. The publication featured significant political commentary including criticism of European fascism and advocacy for full Iraqi independence from Britain.[7][8][9] Under his leadership, Al Hassid, became the foremost Baghdadi weekly.[10]

In addition to his publication of periodicals, Shaul published a number of longer works including memoirs, translations of western literature into Arabic, and anthologies of short stories and poems.[11]

In 1971, Shaul, who had initially been resistant to leave Iraq, immigrated to Israel. Shaul lived in Israel until his December 1984 death.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ Liberman, Serge (2011). A bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008. Hybrid Publishers. ISBN 9781921665172. OCLC 668398875.
  2. ^ Snir, Reuven (2010-10-01). "Shā'ūl, Anwar". Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
  3. ^ The Who's Who of Iraq (PDF). 1936.
  4. ^ "أنور شاؤول". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  5. ^ "Shaul (Shaool), Anwar | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  6. ^ Snir, Reuven. ""Religion is for God, the Fatherland is for Everyone": Arab-Jewish Writers in Modern Iraq and the Clash of Narratives after Their Immigration to Israel" (PDF). Haifa University.
  7. ^ Goldstein-Sabbah, Sasha (November 2016). "Censorship and the Jews of Baghdad: Reading between the lines in the case of E. Levy". The Journal of the Middle East and Africa. 7 (3): 283–300. doi:10.1080/21520844.2016.1227927.
  8. ^ Gilbert, Martin (2011). In Ishmael's house: a history of Jews in Muslim lands. Yale University Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780300177985. OCLC 805947788.
  9. ^ Ginsberg, Morris (1959). The Jewish Journal of Sociology. 1. World Jewish Congress.
  10. ^ "Sephardic Horizons". www.sephardichorizons.org. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  11. ^ Basri, Meer. "Prominent Iraqi Jews of recent times". www.dangoor.com. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  12. ^ Mendelson Maoz, Adia (2014). Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557536808.


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