Dr. Maisie Meyer was born in Calcutta, India, and hails from a Baghdadi Jewish family. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics and has travelled the world to lecture on Baghdadi Jews in the eastern Diaspora. Her previous books include From the Rivers of Babylon to the Whangpoo: A Century of Sephardi Jewish Life in Shanghai. More information can be found at www.mjmeyer.org.uk.

"The narrative skill of the author, and the lucid prose flowing from her pen, belie the years of painstaking, dogged pursuance of source material, literally worldwide, all meticulously researched and scrupulously authenticated." – Sephardi Bulletin