Cairo-born essayist of an Iraqi and Tunisian Jewish family who settled in Israel. In her essays she imagined a Levantine culture where Jews and Arabs, East and West could meet, an idea that later Mizrahi writers rediscovered.
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Essayist and novelist · 1917–1979
Cairo-born essayist of an Iraqi and Tunisian Jewish family who settled in Israel. In her essays she imagined a Levantine culture where Jews and Arabs, East and West could meet, an idea that later Mizrahi writers rediscovered.
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