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PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253066883
ISBN-139780253066886
eBay Product ID (ePID)24058356544
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
Publication NameJacqueline Kahanoff : a Levantine Woman
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
SubjectWomen, Historical
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography
AuthorDavid Ohana
SeriesPerspectives on Israel Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight21.4 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-018012
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"With expository grace, David Ohana has penned an analytically supple and compelling intellectual portrait of a woman who embodied the vision of Israel's integration in an irenic multicultural universe of the Levant."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago, "With expository grace, David Ohana has penned an analytically supple and compelling intellectual portrait of a woman who embodied the vision of Israel's integration in an irenic multicultural universe of the Levant."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago "By sympathetically recounting the life and thought of the cosmopolitan Levantine intellectual Jacqueline Kahanoff, David Ohana blows on the dying embers of 'Mediterranean humanism' in the hope that they may still burst into glorious flame."--Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley. "This engaging biography of Jacqueline Kahanoff lays out her extraordinary journey between countries, languages, and intellectual milieux that shaped her rise as an independent-minded essayist and writer whose views on Levantinism and modernity attracted attention in Israel and beyond. An important book that deserves a wide readership."--Yael Zerubavel, Author of Desert in the Promised Land, "With expository grace, David Ohana has penned an analytically supple and compelling intellectual portrait of a woman who embodied the vision of Israel's integration in an irenic multicultural universe of the Levant."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago "By sympathetically recounting the life and thought of the cosmopolitan Levantine intellectual Jacqueline Kahanoff, David Ohana blows on the dying embers of 'Mediterranean humanism' in the hope that they may still burst into glorious flame."--Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.8924062092
Table Of ContentPreface Introduction: Levantinism?Ex oriente lux 1. A Tale of Four Cities 2. Levantinism: A Cultural Theory 3. Kahanoff's Poetic Journey 4. "Where Can I Feel at Home?" 5. Being a Modern Woman 6. Beyond the Levant 7. Life at the Edge of the Line Epilogue: Kahanoff and the Humanist Mediterranean Heritage Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisJacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman is the first intellectual biography of this remarkable Egyptian-Jewish intellectual, whose work has secured her place in literary pantheon as a herald of Levantine, Mediterranean, and transnational culture. Growing up Jewish in cosmopolitan Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s, Jacqueline Kahanoff experienced a bustling Middle East enriched by diverse languages, religions, and peoples who nonetheless were deeply connected to each other through history, business, daily practices, and shared landscape. At the age of twenty-four, Kahanoff immigrated to the United States. Her stories, essays, and short autobiographical novel attest to her penchant to cross boundaries, generations, social classes, sexes, and Western and Eastern constructs. After immigrating to Israel in the early 1950s, she critically addressed the country's "provinciality" and "ethnic nationalism" as seen through her conception of a transnational Levantine culture. Through many writings, Kahanoff set forth her distinctive vision of Israel as a Mediterranean country with a broad, multicultural Levantine identity. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, ranging from interviews with Jacqueline Kahanoff's acquaintances and contemporaries to unpublished writings, David Ohana explores her fascinating life and intellectual journey from Cairo to Tel Aviv. The encompassing vision of a Levantine Israel made Kahanoff the initiator of a different cultural possibility, more extensive than that offered in her time, and also, perhaps, than is offered today.
LC Classification NumberDS135.E43K2986 2023
