Creator Bio
Jack Marshall
b. 1936
Jack Marshall grew up in an Arabic-speaking Jewish home in Brooklyn. He is a poet, playwright, and memoirist whose works explore his Sephardic heritage. The recipient of the PEN West Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for From Baghdad to Brooklyn, Marshall was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Content by Jack Marshall
Primary Source
From Baghdad to Brooklyn: An Arab-Jewish America
Jack Marshall recalls his Brooklyn childhood in an Arab Jewish community rich with Middle Eastern food, language, and cultural fusion.