Edmond Jabès

Edmond Jabès

Poet · 1912–1991

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Cairo-born poet of an Egyptian Jewish family, forced to leave Egypt in 1957. His Book of Questions, written in French, is a major meditation on exile, the book and Jewish identity.

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