The House of Jacob
Contributors: Julia Kristeva (Foreword); William Sayers (Translator)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780801440656
Subjects: Biography: general; Immigration & emigration; Jewish studies; Jews; Historical - General; Cuenca family; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Jewish - General; Biography/Autobiography; Holocaust survivors; Holocaust; Sephardim; Biography; France; Gabay family
First sentence: I could not succeed in erasing from my memory the last image of my parents lying in their coffins.
Description: "In this book, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy traces her family's exile after their expulsion in 1492 at the time of Spanish unification. Their journey leads her to the exotic ports of Salonika, Constantinople, Bayonne, and Varna, to the cosmopolitan centers of Vienna and Paris, to America and Israel, and to Auschwitz. As she notes, while place and time separate us from those we love or never knew, something continues to link us. For Courtine-Denamy, this "something" is, in part, language - the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) that is still spoken, whether on the banks of the Danube, on the Aegean Sea, or along the quays of the Seine."--Jacket.