Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew Paperback / softback
by Dan Vittorio Segre
Paperback / softback
Description
"Taut and illuminating¿ memorable¿ written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness." Primo Levi"Luminous, almost light-hearted, autobiography about a family of Italian Jews under Mussolini." Frederic Raphael, Sunday TimesSegre tells the story of his childhood and adolescence in Mussolini's Italy. Nurtured in a world of aristocratic privilege, he emerged naive and unprepared for the realities that awaited him.
The crash of 1929 and the introduction of Mussolini's anti-Jewish laws saw him on the boat to Tel Aviv, a rare immigrant with a first-class ticket, jacket, silk tie and detachable linen collar, thrust into the pioneering culture of Palestine in the 1930s.
Segre explores the pathos and contradictions of such situations with a keen sense of irony which lifts the book out of the world of memoirs and into the realm of literature.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:273 pages
- Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:02/11/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9781870015691
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:273 pages
- Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:02/11/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9781870015691