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Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew

Dan Vittorio Segre author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd

Published:2nd Nov '98

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Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew cover

Third reprint of memoirs that have not ceased to fascinate since the first edition. Winner of H.H. Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction, 1987

"Taut and illuminating¿ memorable¿ written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness."
Primo Levi

"Luminous, almost light-hearted, autobiography about a family of Italian Jews under Mussolini." Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times

Segre tells the story of his childhood and adolescence in Mussolini's Italy. Nurtured in a world of aristocratic privilege, he emerged naive and unprepared for the realities that awaited him. The crash of 1929 and the introduction of Mussolini's anti-Jewish laws saw him on the boat to Tel Aviv, a rare immigrant with a first-class ticket, jacket, silk tie and detachable linen collar, thrust into the pioneering culture of Palestine in the 1930s. Segre explores the pathos and contradictions of such situations with a keen sense of irony which lifts the book out of the world of memoirs and into the realm of literature.

ISBN: 9781870015691

Dimensions: 142mm x 217mm x 23mm

Weight: 364g

273 pages