Mongrels or marvels : the Levantine writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff

Mongrels or marvels : the Levantine writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff / edited by Deborah A. Starr and Sasson Somekh.

The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. This text embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of...

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Main Author: Kahanof, Jacqueline (Author)
Other Authors: Starr, Deborah A., 1968- (Editor), Somekh, Sasson (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subjects:
Jewish-Arab relations.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
Jewish-Arab relations
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, a cosmopolitan Levantine
  • Childhood in Egypt
  • Passover in Egypt
  • Such is Rachel
  • Journey to a better land
  • A line in the sand
  • Maadi
  • Alexandria
  • Cairo wedding
  • Europe from afar
  • A culture stillborn
  • To live and die a Copt
  • Wake of the waves
  • Reunion in Beersheba
  • A letter from Mama Camouna
  • Rebel, my brother
  • Israel : ambivalent Levantine
  • To remember Alexandria
  • My brother Ishmael : on the visit of Anwar Sadat
  • Welcome, Sadat
  • Afterword : from East the sun.

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