DARWĪSH, SHALOM

DARWĪSH, SHALOM
DARWĪSH, SHALOM (1913– ), Iraqi author. A lawyer by profession, Darwīsh was secretary of the Baghdad Jewish communal council (1931–44). His first volume of Arabic short stories dealt with the life of Iraq's masses and was followed by a second collection, Baʿd al-Nās ("One of the People," 1948). He immigrated to Israel in 1951 and settled in Haifa. (Shmuel Moreh)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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