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

• Autore: Kahanof Jacqueline
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 892.4/6809
• Soggetto topico: Jewish-Arab relations
• Altri autori: StarrDeborah A. <1968-> SomekhSasson
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917–1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched her writing career with publications in prominent American journals. Kahanoff later settled in Israel, where she became a noted cultural and literary critic. Mongrels or Marvels offers Kahanoff's most influential and engaging writings, selected from essays and works of fiction that anticipate contemporary concerns about cultural integration in immigrant societies. Confronted with the breakdown of cosmopolitan Egyptian society, and the stereotypes she encountered as a Jew from the Arab world, she developed a social model, Levantinism, that embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of mutual respect and acceptance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mongrels or marvels
• ISBN: 0-8047-7788-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816289103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.