Sasson Somekh (39 results)

Hardcover. First edition. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 269pp. Glossary, index. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Some sun fading to spine and edges of jacket. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Kahanoff's essays and works of fiction anticipate contemporary concerns about cultural integration in immigrant societies. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.…

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff. Book.

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Hardback. Condition: New. The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched her writing career with publications in prominent American journals. Kahanoff later settled in Israel, where she became a noted cultural and literary critic. Mongrels or Marvels offers Kahanoff's most influential and engaging writings, selected from essays and works of fiction that anticipate contemporary concerns about cultural integration in immigrant societies. Confronted with the breakdown of cosmopolitan Egyptian society, and the stereotypes she encountered as a Jew from the Arab world, she developed a social model, Levantinism, that embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of mutual respect and acceptance.…

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Condition: New. Somekh, a noted student of modern Arabic culture, relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the reader to Oxford, Princeton and Cairo, and introducing scholars and writers he befriended: S D Goitein, Mustafa Badawi and Haim Blanc, among others. This title presents his story. Num Pages: 170 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; BM; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288. . 2012. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: VG. Princeton 1975. Princeton Near East Paper Number 21. Octavo, 21pp., wraps. VG.

Condition: New. In English.

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Condition: New. 2011. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Condition: New. Somekh, a noted student of modern Arabic culture, relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the reader to Oxford, Princeton and Cairo, and introducing scholars and writers he befriended: S D Goitein, Mustafa Badawi and Haim Blanc, among others. This title presents his story. Num Pages: 170 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; BM; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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24 x 17 cm. Condition: Sehr gut. 322 paes Softcover, Broschur in sehr gutem Zustand, innen wie außen tadellos. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. Softcover, paperback in very good condition; flawless inside and out. Please see our photos. Büro 1 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

24 x 17 cm. Condition: Sehr gut. VIII, 314 pages Softcover, Broschur in sehr gutem Zustand, innen wie außen tadellos. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. Softcover, paperback binding in very good condition, flawless inside and out. Please see our pictures. Büro 20 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600. …

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Condition: New. 2011. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine, edge of front cover a bit faded by light. SOMEKH, SASSON. Baghdad, yesterday: the making of an Arab Jew. Jerusalem: Ibis Editions, 2007, later printing number line ending in 2, 187pp., . Originally published in Hebrew as Baghdad, etmol by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv, 2003 - "Sasson Somekh's memoir takes shape like a series of telling snapshots from another time and place. The time is the 1930s and '40s and the place, Iraq, where Somekh and his family were part of the country's then-flourishing Jewish community. The book offers an intimate view of this milieu and manages both to describe vividly the young Somekh's intellectual and emotional growth and to map the now-vanished world of Baghdad's book stalls and literary cafes, its Arabic-speaking Jewish bank clerks, outdoor movies at the Cinema Diana, and bonfires by the Tigris. As the pieces of Somekh's unsentimental memoir accumulate, they also mount in meaning. The book celebrates the ups and downs of Iraqi Jewish life as it also portrays the eventual dissolution of the community in the early 1950s.". ISBN 9789659012589.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 269 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: New. The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched her writing career with publications in prominent American journals. Kahanoff later settled in Israel, where she became a noted cultural and literary critic. Mongrels or Marvels offers Kahanoff's most influential and engaging writings, selected from essays and works of fiction that anticipate contemporary concerns about cultural integration in immigrant societies. Confronted with the breakdown of cosmopolitan Egyptian society, and the stereotypes she encountered as a Jew from the Arab world, she developed a social model, Levantinism, that embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of mutual respect and acceptance.…

Hardcover. Octavo, x, 241 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is pink with gold print. Boards in pink cloth, gold print; fraying to spine caps, rear hinge, and corners. Text block has tanning to endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1404133. FP New Rockville Stock.

Leiden, Brill, 1991. 186 pp. Internally fine. Orig. cloth, penmark on frontcover, minor foxing of the edges. Contributions by Andras Hamori, David Semah, David Gil, George Kanazi and others. English.

Condition: New. Somekh, a noted student of modern Arabic culture, relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the reader to Oxford, Princeton and Cairo, and introducing scholars and writers he befriended: S D Goitein, Mustafa Badawi and Haim Blanc, among .

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Life after Baghdad is a follow-on volume to author Sasson Somekh's highly successful Baghdad, Yesterday [Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2007], which told of Somekh's boyhood in the city of his birth and the circumstances under which his family decided to forsake Iraq, a land in which they were rooted for centuries, and move to Israel. The first book was highly acclaimed in the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books - and from the Israeli Ha'aretz, 'It is hard to overstate the beauty, originality, lucidity, gentleness, wisdom and importance of Baghdad, Yesterday.' This present book continues the story where the previous volume ends. Sasson Somekh, a noted student of modern Arabic culture, relates his life as a university professor and writer, taking the reader to Oxford, Princeton, and Cairo, and introducing the scholars and writers he befriended: S.D. Goitein, Mustafa Badawi, and Haim Blanc, among others. He devotes a major section to Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), with whom he m.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917-1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched her writing career with publications in prominent American journals. Kahanoff later settled in Israel, where she became a noted cultural and literary critic. Mongrels or Marvels offers Kahanoff's most influential and engaging writings, selected from essays and works of fiction that anticipate contemporary concerns about cultural integration in immigrant societies. Confronted with the breakdown of cosmopolitan Egyptian society, and the stereotypes she encountered as a Jew from the Arab world, she developed a social model, Levantinism, that embraces the idea of a pluralist, multicultural society and counters the prevailing attitudes and identity politics in the Middle East with the possibility of mutual respect and acceptance.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2000 Brill hardcover reprint edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Contents: 1. Preface' by Benjamin Hary, John Hayes and Jennifer Quijano; 2. 'A Tribute to Professor William M. Brinner' by Fred Astren; 3. 'Bibliography of the Works of William M. Brinner' by Barry Ross; 4. 'Time, Historiography, and Historical Consciousness: The Dialectic of Jewish-Muslim Relations' by Jacob Lassner; 5. 'Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Byzantine Italy' by Stephen D. Benin; 6. 'Sociability and the Concept of Galut in Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages' by Mark R. Cohen; 7. 'The Jewish-Christian Debate in Transition: From the Land of Ishmael to the Land of Edom' by Daniel J. Lasker; 8. 'Patrilocal Residence and Jewish Court Documents in Medieval Cairo' by David Marmer; 9. 'Text and Territory: Jewish-Muslim Relations 632-750 CE' by Gordon D. Newby; 10. 'Medieval Jewish Magic in Relation to Islam: Theoretical Attitudes and Genres' by Shaul Shaked; 11. 'Viewing the 'Other': Sephardic/Oriental Jewry and Zionism in Contemporary Arab Political and Journalistic Writing in the 1960s and 1970s' by Michael M. Laskier; 12. 'Jews of the Arab World between European Colonialism, Zionism, and Arab Nationalism' by Norman A. Stillman; 13. 'Early Bible and Qur'an Illuminations: Preliminary Remarks' by Eva Baer; 14. 'The Story of Our Master Joseph: The Spiritual or the Righteous?' by Marc Bernstein; 15. 'Comparative Studies in Bible and Qur'an: A Fresh Look at Genesis 22 in Light of Sura 37' by Reuven Firestone; 16. 'Isfhjma'iliyat: A Judeo-Persian Account of the Building of the Ka'ba' by Vera B. Moreen; 17. 'The Garment of Adam in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Tradition' by Stephen D. Ricks; 18. 'Vestiges of Saadiah's Tafsir in Modern Arabic Bibles' by Sasson Somekh; 19. 'Qisas al-Anbiya' by Steven M. Wasserstrom; 20. 'Islamic Law and Jewish Law on Deserted Wives/Missing Husbands: Humanitarian Considerations' by Vardit Rispler-Chaim; 21. 'Problems of Intermarriage in Early fiqh Texts' by Susan Spectorsky; 22. 'Maimonides and the Philosophers of Islam: The Problem of Theophany' by Lenn E. Goodman; 23. 'Self-Criticism in Jewish and Islamic Traditions' by Hava Lazarus-Yafeh; 24. 'Karaite Jewish Approaches to History in Medieval Islam' by Fred Astren; 25. 'A Speculation on External Factors in the Formation of the Crimean Karaite (National) Identity' by Philip E. Miller; 26. 'Sabbatian Echoes in A. B. Yehoshua's Mar Mani' by Arnold J. Band; 27. 'Ideology and Realism in a Palestinian Novella: Ghassan Kanafani's Return to Haifa' by Ariel A. Bloch; 28. 'How Can My Heart Be in the East?' Intertextual Irony in Judah ha-Levi' by Ross Brann; 29. 'From 'lh rhmn to al-rahman-The Source of a Divine Epithet' by Jonas C. Greenfield; 30. 'Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Sharh-Bridging the Cultures of Arabic and Hebrew' by Benjamin Hary; 31. 'The Nineteenth-Century Jewish Playwright, Abraham Daninos, as a Bridge between Muslim and Jewish Theater' by Shmuel Moreh.…

Leather / fine binding. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Very good condition. First English Edition published by Ibis Editions. Text is clean and binding is tight. Light identifier written lightly in pencil on first page. Binding is solid and free of any edge wear and bumping. Overall a solid book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …