Life after Baghdad : memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000 / Sasson Somekh ; translated by Tamar L. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Somekh, Sasson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somekh, Sasson.

Jews, Iraqi--Israel--Biography.

Jews, Iraqi.

Arabic teachers.

College teachers.

Israel.

College teachers--Israel--Biography.

Arabic teachers--Israel--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Portland [Or.] : Sussex Academic Press, 2012.

Summary:

In his 2007 book Baghdad, Yesterday, Arabic literature professor Somekh told the story of his youth in Iraq and his family's move to Israel. In this book, the second volume of his memoirs, he describes his life as a university professor and writer at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and his travels in Egypt, the UK, and the US. He also focuses on his friendship with Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The transit camp

Scouting about the land

The Tigris and the Jordan

The earth shall rise on new foundations

Lovers of Arabic in the first Hebrew city

Days with Alexander Penn

An interrupted dialogue

Father

Higher learning in lower Tel Aviv

Roman à clef: three years at the academy of the Hebrew language

A family of my own

Mustafa

Translating literature

Haim Blanc

Saturday evenings at the Goiteins

Students and colleagues

1988, two experiences

A modern Egyptian Sinbad

Cairo, the four masters

Cairo, end of the century

An encounter with Taha Hussein's granddaughter

Naguib Mahfouz, thirty years of friendship

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845195021

1845195027

OCLC:

756912954