Re: [ha-Safran] Learning about sefardic migrations and how the different communities interact and self identify

Marion Stein wrote: We'd like to deepen and expand these conversations with reference to writers who may have had firsthand knowledge of their experiences with migration and expulsion. Marion's email made my whiskers wiggle because it made me remember an email from 10 years back which I looked

Re: [ha-Safran] Learning about sefardic migrations and how the different communities interact and self identify

Hello, I want to recommend a book by Ezra K. Zilkha From Baghdad to Boardrooms: My Family's Odyssey: a Memoir. Ezra Khedouri Zilkha (born in 1925) is an Iraqi-born American financier and philanthropist. Here is a book

Re: [ha-Safran] Learning about sefardic migrations and how the different communities interact and self identify

There are many books of memoirs from Egypt. Some of them are recorded in one article. https://www.enlacejudio.com/2015/07/11/alejandria-en-mi-corazon-sefardi/ In some weeks i’ll publish a bibliographical book that follows the one I published in 2012:

Re: [ha-Safran] Learning about sefardic migrations and how the different communities interact and self identify

I’d prefer Lucienne Carasso “Growing up in Jewish Alexandria”. Pilar Romeu > El 22 feb 2019, a las 17:42, Altschiller, Donald S via Hasafran > escribió: > > Hi- > > I'd recommend the following books by Ms. Lucette Lagnado. She is an > Egyptian Jew and has written very movingly about her

Re: [ha-Safran] Learning about sefardic migrations and how the different communities interact and self identify

I suggest: My father's paradise: a son's search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq by: Sabar, Ariel.Published: 2008. And I agree with the Lucetter Lagnado pick as well--excellent! Bruchie WiensteinLibrarianMDYHSBrooklyn On Friday, February 22, 2019, 11:28:03 AM EST, Marion Stein via

Re: [ha-Safran] Learning about sefardic migrations and how the different communities interact and self identify

Hi- I'd recommend the following books by Ms. Lucette Lagnado. She is an Egyptian Jew and has written very movingly about her parents lives in Egypt and the U.S. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search