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EAN : 9782348060502
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 144
Size : 195 x 260 mm
A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF ALGERIAN JEWS

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Collection : Bandes dessinées
Release date : 07/10/2021
While digitizing family photos, David comes across an 1878 painting of a “young native woman” from Algeria. When he learns it is the portrait of a distant ancestor, a descendant of the Jews of Aurès, David sets off on a personal quest for his roots that soon becomes a full-fledged... While digitizing family photos, David comes across an 1878 painting of a “young native woman” from Algeria. When he learns it is the portrait of a distant ancestor, a descendant of the Jews of Aurès, David sets off on a personal quest for his roots that soon becomes a full-fledged historical inquiry into a rich, complex, and painful past.
 
As threads of familial memory and historical fact interweave, what emerges is the tapestry of a civilization over two millennia old that traces its origins back to the region’s Phoenician colonization and the Hebrew influx in its wake, followed in the 1st century CE by Jews exiled from Palestine, and finally the Berbers’ conversion to Judaism.
 
This splendid work masterfully reconstructs a largely overlooked pocket of history.
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EAN : 9782348060502
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 144
Size : 195 x 260 mm
La Découverte