SHINAH, SELMAN

SHINAH, SELMAN (1898–?), Iraqi lawyer, politician, and Hebrew writer. An officer in the Turkish army in World War I, Shinah was captured and exiled to india until 1919. He was elected the Jewish representative in the Iraqi parliament in 1947 and 1949. He founded the Hebrew Writers' Union in 1920 and published a Zionist weekly in Arabic, Al-Miṣbāḥ ("The Menorah"), which lasted until 1929. He settled in Israel in 1951. His autobiography, Mi-Bavel le-Ẓiyyon ("From Babylon to Zion"), appeared in 1955.