In On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt) (Indiana University Press, 2017), Aimée Israel-Pelletier), Professor and Head of French at the University of Texas at Arlington, looks at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers. She confronts issues of identity, exile, language, immigration, Arab nationalism, European colonialism, and discourse on the Holocaust. Israel-Pelletier's volume is a hugely important part of the project recovering and transmitting Egyptian Jewish life and thought.
Max Kaiser)* is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. He can be reached at *[*[email protected].
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