Zikrayat: Eight Jewish Women Remember Egypt

By: Atiya, Nayra

Book Overview

Jewish women exiled from Egypt to New York share glimpses of a lost world, by the author of Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories

Between 1948 and 1957, a period that witnessed two wars between Egypt and Israel, 60,000 members of Egypt's 75,000-strong Jewish population left the country, compelled by growing hostility to them because of their presumed links to Zionism, economic insecurity, and after 1956, overt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774169557
• ISBN13: 9789774169557
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"