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Author Israel-Pelletier, Aimée, author.

Title On the Mediterranean and the Nile : the Jews of Egypt / Aimée Israel-Pelletier.

Publication Info. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages).
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Series Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies
Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary AimEe 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.
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Subject Jews -- Egypt -- Intellectual life.
Jews.
Egypt.
Intellectual life.
Egyptian literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Egyptian literature, Modern.
Jewish authors.
Jews, Egyptian -- Identity.
Jews, Egyptian.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Egypt -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Israel-Pelletier, Aimée. On the Mediterranean and the Nile. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018] 9780253025296 (DLC) 2017046402
ISBN 9780253025784 (electronic book)
0253025788 (electronic book)
9780253025296 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)