Life after Baghdad : memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel, 1950-2000 /
Somekh, Sasson.
Brighton : Sussex Academic Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Somekh, Sasson.
Jews, Iraqi
College teachers
Arabic teachers