Life after Baghdad memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000 /

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 scholars and writers he befriended: S D Goitein, Mustafa Badawi and Haim Blanc, among others. This title presents his story.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Somekh, Sasson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2012.
Temas:
Somekh, Sasson.
Jews, Iraqi > Israel > Biography.
College teachers > Israel > Biography.
Arabic teachers > Israel > Biography.
Arabic teachers.
College teachers.
Jews, Iraqi.
Israel.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1 The Transit Camp
  • 2 Looking Around
  • 3 The Tigris and the Jordan
  • 4 "The earth shall rise on new foundations"
  • 5 Lovers of Arabic in the First Hebrew City
  • 6 Days with Alexander Penn
  • 7 An Interrupted Dialogue
  • 8 Father
  • 9 Higher Learning in Lower Tel Aviv
  • 10 Roman à clef: Three Years at the Academy of the Hebrew Language
  • 11 A Family of My Own
  • 12 Mustafa
  • 13 Translating Literature
  • 14 Haim Blanc
  • 15 Saturday Evenings at the Goiteins
  • 16 Students and Colleagues
  • 17 1988
  • Two Experiences
  • 18 A Modern Egyptian Sinbad
  • 19 Cairo
  • The Four Masters
  • 20 Cairo
  • End of the Century
  • 21 An Encounter with Taha Hussein's Granddaughter
  • 22 Naguib Mahfouz
  • Thirty years of Friendship
  • The Picture Section and Letter from Naguib Mahfouz.

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