“The Jews, the Arabs, my family and me”, by Pierre Hazan: intimate investigation into a vanished world

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“I come from a vanished world. I belong to the last generation of Jews born in Arab lands, who left too young, with few memories. » From the first page of his book, Pierre Hazan says it all. Of the gaping fault in him and his desire to resurrect this disappeared world, his own, that of his family, and through this book to highlight this “blind spot” which persists from the Maghreb to the Middle East.

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