Sami Michael

Sami Michael

Novelist · 1926–2024

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Baghdad-born novelist who fled to Israel in 1949 and wrote in Hebrew about Iraqi Jews and Arab-Jewish life, in novels such as Victoria and A Trumpet in the Wadi. He was a lifelong human-rights activist.

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