Debórah Eliezer’s one-woman show cracks open the assumptions of her own identity through the story of her father, Edward Ben-Eliezer, an Iraqi Jew born in 1930, a member of the Zionist underground in the aftermath of World War II, a refugee, Israeli spy, and an immigrant to America. 

Set in Iraq, pre-State Palestine, and California at SF’s own Jewish Home, and giving voice to a dozen different characters—including her father at three different ages, her great grandmother, their Iraqi neighbors, an ethereal embodiment of the Tigris Euphrates valley itself – this one-hour tour de force tells the remarkable history of the Iraqi Jewish Diaspora, as told by a daughter of that diaspora. Through this journey, Eliezer also finds a missing part of herself, “a song sung in a language I can’t understand” as she puts it. “A dream I can’t remember.”

“Luminous…So beautifully written, performed and directed that you might wish it were longer. Eliezer is an expressive actor, and her story, lyrical and affecting, is one you’ve probably never heard before.”  

--Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner

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