Rachel Wahba

Rachel Wahba is a therapist and an author of her own book; a memoir about her family. Wahba was born in India to an Iraqi Jewish refugee mother and an Egyptian Jewish refugee father.cite web | url =http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21471878920805 | title =Rachel Wahba:Nice Jewish Girls | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =h-net.org] cite web | url =http://www.loolwa.com/flying_camel.html | title =Rachel Wahba"Benign Ignorance or Persistent Resistance?" | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =loolwa.com] She is a Sephardic Jew and often felt outcasted from the Western/Ashkenazi Jews as most of the Jewish cultures and foods were defined through that particular sect.cite web | url =http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21471878920805 | title =Rachel Wahba:Nice Jewish Girls | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =h-net.org] She grew up in Kobe, Japancite web | url =http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21471878920805 | title =Rachel Wahba:Nice Jewish Girls | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =h-net.org] and later immigrated to the United States with the help of the Red Cross as she was officially stateless and did not possess a passportcite web | url =http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20012/edition_id/408/format/html/displaystory.html | title =Rachel Jew From Iraq | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =jewishsf.com] , where she had experienced resentment from her fellow American Jews because she is a dark skinned Jew, her inability to speak Yiddish, and being an Arab Jewish lesbian.cite web | url =http://www.loolwa.com/flying_camel.html | title =Rachel Wahba"Benign Ignorance or Persistent Resistance?" | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =loolwa.com] Her mother fled a suburb of Baghdad in which she lived, in the mid-1940scite web | url =http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/20012/edition_id/408/format/html/displaystory.html | title =Rachel Jew From Iraq | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =jewishsf.com] during the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, forcing her to leave her belongings behind and migrate elsewhere. She has a daughter, Nina rachel who assists her in establishing a lesbian-feminist Jewish community.cite web | url =http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21471878920805 | title =Rachel Wahba:Nice Jewish Girls | accessdate =2007-08-22 | publisher =h-net.org]

Bibliography

* "Nice Jewish Girls"
* "Twice Blessed"

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