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A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe: The Autobiography and Journal of Gabriel Arie, 1863-1939 | 
 enlarge | Author: Gabriel Arie
Creators: Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue, Jane Marie Todd
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1159015
Media: Paperback
Pages: 317
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0295976748
Dewey Decimal Number: 949.90049240092
EAN: 9780295976747
ASIN: 0295976748
Publication Date: January 1998
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Condition: with folds on front cover
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Product Description
Gabriel Arie's writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. For his entire life, Arie -- teacher, historian, community leader, and businessman -- was caught between East and West. Born in a small provincial town in Ottoman Bulgaria in 1863, he witnessed the disappearance of a social and political order that had lasted for centuries and its replacement by new ideas and new ways of life, which would irreversibly transform Jewish existence. A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863-1906) and journal (1906-39) of Gabriel Arie, along with selections from his letters to the Alliance Israelite Universelle. An introduction analyzes his life and examines the general and the Jewish contexts of the Levant at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.
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A pre WWII peek into a Balkan family December 10, 2000
Eve Aries (Stamford, CT USA)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book, while perhaps not of general interest, was fascinating to me, since my husband was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and was a distant relative of the author. The blindness of the participants to the events swirling around them in Europe was startling. Their concerns with business and success overrode any concern with the outside world. Marriage between cousins, uncles and nieces, was common emphasizing the clannishness of the Jewish population. This world ended with the commencement of WW II. The book definitely has a limited audience.
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