Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris - The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century

by Edgar Morin

Book Overview

Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this 'holographic history' Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it the flowering, decline, and death of Jewish culture in Spain, the passage from Empires to Nation States, the complex relations between Jews and Gentiles, between East and West, and, ultimately, the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845192745
• ISBN13: 9781845192747
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"