Anwar Shaul

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

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

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. 1942-, Liberman, Serge (2011). A bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008. Hybrid Publishers. ISBN 9781921665172. OCLC 668398875.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  3. The Who's Who of Iraq (PDF). 1936.
  4. "أنور شاؤول". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-01-16.
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  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. 1936-2015., Gilbert, Martin (2011). In Ishmael's house : a history of Jews in Muslim lands. Yale University Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780300177985. OCLC 805947788.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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. Maoz, Adia Mendelson (2014). Multiculturalism in Israel: Literary Perspectives. Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557536808.



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