Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story

by Dan Vittorio Segre and Vittorio Dan Segre

Book Overview

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head." From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187001569X
• ISBN13: 9781870015691
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.6" x 0.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Nice Piece of Memoir

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew is a unique personal history of the Jewish experience in Palestine between the wars in that it chronicles the life of a man largely lacking ideological commitment to Zionism. Segre's story is more about a young man buffed by external forces and an internal lack of solidity. This story could easily lose the reader's sympathy, but Segre is honest and gentle in the telling of his tale, giving a new twist to the coming of age story, one molded by the catastrophic events of Jewish history in the mid-twentieth century.