On the Mediterranean and the Nile, the Jews of Egypt, Aimée Israel-Pelletier
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On the Mediterranean and the Nile, the Jews of Egypt, Aimée Israel-Pelletier
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
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contains biographical information
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
On the Mediterranean and the Nile
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
982429566
Responsibility statement
Aimée Israel-Pelletier
Series statement
Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
Sub title
the Jews of Egypt
Summary
"Aimée Israel-Pelletier examines the lives of Middle Eastern Jews living in Islamic societies in this political and cultural history of the Jews of Egypt. By looking at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers, Israel-Pelletier confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and discourse on the Holocaust. She illustrates that the Jews of Egypt were a fluid community connected by deep roots to the Mediterranean and the Nile. They had an unshakable sense of being Egyptian until the country turned toward the Arab East. With Israel-Pelletier's deft handling, Jewish Egyptian writing offers an insider's view in the unique character of Egyptian Jewry and the Jewish presence across the Mediterranean region and North Africa"--back cover
Table of contents
Jacques Hassoun: return to Egypt -- Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's Egypt: a view from the Nile -- Edmond Jabes: Egypt recovered -- Paula Jacques, resistance and transmission: transplanting Egypt on the soil of France -- Andre Aciman and the Mediterranean: the staging of Egypt as elsewhere
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