The severe dearth of written sources on the Jews and the Kurds drove Zaken to oral history fieldwork and he interviewed more than sixty elderly Jews, altogether conducting hundreds of interviews, thus saving their memoires from being lost forever.
The severe dearth of written sources on both the Jews and the Kurds in Kurdistan drove Zaken to oral history fieldwork. He interviewed more than sixty elderly Jews, altogether conducting hundreds of interviews, thus saving their memoires from being lost forever.