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Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000 - Softcover

Somekh, Sasson

 
9781845195021: Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845195027 ISBN 13: 9781845195021
Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Life after Baghdad is a follow-on volume to author Sasson Somekh's highly successful Baghdad, Yesterday [Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2007], which told of Somekh's boyhood in the city of his birth and the circumstances under which his family decided to forsake Iraq, a land in which they were rooted for centuries, and move to Israel. The first book was highly acclaimed in the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books - and from the Israeli Ha'aretz, "It is hard to overstate the beauty, originality, lucidity, gentleness, wisdom and importance of Baghdad, Yesterday." This present book continues the story where the previous volume ends. Sasson Somekh, a noted student of modern Arabic culture, relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the reader to Oxford, Princeton, and Cairo, and introducing the scholars and writers he befriended: S.D. Goitein, Mustafa Badawi, and Haim Blanc, among others. He devotes a major section to Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), with whom he maintained a close comradeship for three decades and from whom he received the following letter: "Both our peoples knew extraordinary partnership for many years in ancient times, during the Middle Ages, and in the modern era, with...quarrels being few and far between. Unfortunately, we have documented the disputes a hundred times more than the periods of friendship and cooperation...."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sasson Somekh served as professor of Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University for many years, and at other centres of learning in Europe and the US. During the 1990s he served as director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo.

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Verlag
Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845195027
ISBN 13 
9781845195021
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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