A one-of-a-kind textbook teaching Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic.

This textbook is dedicated to spoken Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic—the native tongue spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq—and is designed to guide beginners to an advanced level of speaking. It focuses on common expressions, introduces Baghdad’s historic Jewish culture, and guides readers through sample texts, key vocabulary, grammar points, and exercises, as well as particular topics, such as greetings, family, shopping, and cuisine.

Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.