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= Jews of Kurdistan and Their tribal Chieftains: A study in survival," 2nd and Revised EBook Edition,(Jerusalem:2015), by Mordechai Zaken = "Jews of Kurdistan and Their tribal Chieftains: A study in survival," by Mordechai Zaken, is the product of a lengthy oral-history and comparative-history research conducted by the scholar between the early 1980s and 2002 or so. During this unique oral-history research more than 60 elderly Kurdish Jewish informants had been interviewed - alltogether hundreds of interviews were conducted-  in an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Jews of Kurdistan and the tribal Kurdish society. The research was printed first as a PH.D. Dissertation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003) “Tribal Chieftains and their Jewish Subjects in Kurdistan: A Comparative Study in Survival.” The research was praised by the reviewers of the dissertation, Joyce Blau of INALCO, Paris and Moshe Sharon of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Then the book was published by Brill (2007) under the title "Jewish Subjects and their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan A Study in Survival," in the series of "Jewish Identities in a Changing World," vol. 9, Brill, 2007. The author later printed the book in a second and revised ebook version to make it available for the wider public: "Jews of Kurdistan and Their tribal Chieftains: A study in survival," by Mordechai (Moti) Zaken, 2nd and Revised EBook Edition, "(Jerusalem:2015). This book on the Jews and the tribal Kurdish society has received wide attention and was commented by several reviews.reviews of the book by Amazon readers and has been translated into several languages including Arabic, Sorani Kurdish, Kurmanji, as well as Persian and French. One may also consult the following translation into Arabic, Yahud Kurdistan wa-ru'as'uhum al-qabaliyun: Dirasa fi fan al-baqa'. Transl., Suʿad M. Khader; Reviewers: ʿAbd al-Fatah Ali Yihya and Farast Mirʿi; the Center for Academic Research, Beirut, 2013 (Arabic);the translation into Sorani Kurdish: D. Moredixai Zakin, Culekekany Kurdistan, Sulaimaniya and Erbil, 2015 (Sorani), as well as partial translations of the book, "Jews, Kurds and Arabs, between 1941 and 1952", translated by Dr. Amr Taher Ahmed into Kurmanji, Metîn no. 148, October 2006: 98-123; "Juifs, Kurdes et Arabs, entre 1941 et 1952," Etudes Kurdes, no. 7, May 2005: 7-45.