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

ISBN-13: 9781845192747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 330 str.

Edgar Morin

Opis

In this biography, Edgar Morin, one of France s greatest living intellectuals, not only tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. 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 and between East and West, and, ultimately, the history of the 20th century itself. Morin s work ranges from the great sweep of global historical events to the everyday details of individual lives, letters, feelings, reflections, and experiences."