Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story (Paladin Books) - Softcover

Vittorio Dan Segre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586087206 ISBN 13: 9780586087206

Publisher: Paladin, 1988

Synopsis

The author describes his childhood in prewar Fascist Italy, and his experiences as a teenage immigrant in Palestine, where he came to terms with his Jewish heritage

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

From Library Journal:

Born into a wealthy, assimilated Italian-Jewish family that supported fascism in the interwar years, Segre has written an absorbing memoir reflecting on the feelings and reactions of a 16-year-old whose idyllic adolescence was interrupted by race laws, and who ventured in 1938 into an alien Zionist collective society in Palestine. Focusing primarily on a six-to-seven-year span, the book is no mere chronicle. Rather, as a collection of vignettes of people and events, it serves as an occasion for a wiser, introspective adult, a professor of Zionism at Haifa University, to reveal retrospectively the fears and inner debates of his soul in a tumultuous historical era. This captivating memoir illuminates the problems of modern Jewish sensibility in its struggle over the meaning of Jewish identity, messianism, and Zionism. Benny Kraut, Judaic Studies Dept., Univ. of Cincinnati
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paladin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0586087206
• ISBN 13: 9780586087206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288