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Memoirs of a fortunate Jew an Italian story

"Wherever I have found myself has seemed the proper place for me to be. I have never been an exile." When Ellis Douek was nine years old, his mother insisted that he take up embroidery - in case he decided to be a surgeon when he grew up. Of course she was right, as she always was, for he became Consultant ENT Surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London. The Douek parents had the unerring quality of belonging in whichever country they lived and yet they never stayed long in one place - Egypt, the Sudan, Columbia and, finally, England, moving either out of political necessity or out of impetuosity. In.

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  • "Memuary vezuchego evreia"@ru
  • "Memoirs of a fortunate jew"

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  • "Humour and irony characterise these memoirs of an extraordinary life, explored with the full awareness of the historical reverberations of this century. The author's childhood was spent in Fascist Italy of the 1920s and 1930s. Assimilated Jews, the family's relationship to their country was stronger than to their religion, and their subsequent fortunes and misfortunes were intricately tied to what would prove to be conflicting loyalties. Nurtured in a world of aristocratic privilege, Segre emerged as an adolescent, 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's humour and irony explore the pathos and contradictions of such situations which have characterised his life."
  • ""Wherever I have found myself has seemed the proper place for me to be. I have never been an exile." When Ellis Douek was nine years old, his mother insisted that he take up embroidery - in case he decided to be a surgeon when he grew up. Of course she was right, as she always was, for he became Consultant ENT Surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London. The Douek parents had the unerring quality of belonging in whichever country they lived and yet they never stayed long in one place - Egypt, the Sudan, Columbia and, finally, England, moving either out of political necessity or out of impetuosity. In."@en

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  • "Memòries"
  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Biography"@ru
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Sebre, Vittorio"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Autobiographie"

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  • "Memoirs of a fortunate Jew"
  • "Memoirs of a fortunate Jew : an Italian story"
  • "Ein Glücksrabe die Geschichte eines italienischen Juden"
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  • "Мемуары везучего еврея : итальянская история"
  • "Ein Glücksrabe : die Geschichte eines italienischen Juden"
  • "Storia di un Ebreo fortunato"
  • "Un Judío afortunado : recuerdos y aventuras en la Italia fascista"
  • "Zikhronotaṿ shel Yehudi bar-mazel"
  • "Memuary vezuchego evrei︠a︡: italʹi︠a︡nskai︠al istorii︠a︡"
  • "Мемуары везучего еврея. : итальянская история"
  • "Storia di un ebreo fortunato"@it
  • "Storia di un ebreo fortunato"
  • "Memoirs of a fortunate Jew an Italian story"@en
  • "Un judio afortunado : recuerdos y aventuras en la Italia fascista"
  • "Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew"@en
  • "El judio afortunado : recuerdos y aventuras en la Italia fascista"@es
  • "Un judio afortunado:recuerdos y aventuras en la Italia fascista"@es
  • "Memoirs of a fortunate jew : an Italian story"
  • "Storia di un ebreo fortunato : [autobiografia]"
  • "Storia di un ebreo fortunatio"
  • "Memoirs of a fortunate Jew : an Italian story"@en
  • "Memoirs of a fortunate Jew"@en

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