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حمام الذهب
- Title
- حمام الذهب / محمد عيسي المؤدب.
- Ḥammām al-dhahab / Muḥammad ʻĪsá al-Muʼaddib.
- Author
- Publication
- تونس : مسكيلياني للنشر والتوزيع، 2020.
- Tūnis : Miskīliyānī lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2020.
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | PJ7846.U138 H36 2020g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 280 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- When members of the Jewish minority in Tunis flee to France to avoid the Germans, they hide their historical documents in the ground below the Turkish bath (hammam) Years later, one of the Jewish descendents embarks on a journey to discover her roots and returns to Tunis. As she begins her research, she learns the legend of the hammam that tells how the floor gave way, revealing a treasure of gold.
- Subject
- 1881-1956
- Jewish families > Tunisia > Fiction
- Jewish families > France > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > France > Fiction
- Familles juives > Tunisie > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Familles juives > France > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Jewish families
- Tunisia > History > French occupation, 1881-1956 > Fiction
- Tunisie > Histoire > 1881-1956 (Occupation française) > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- France
- Tunisia
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Language (note)
- In Arabic.
- ISBN
- 9789938240818
- 993824081X
- OCLC
- on1227972414
- 1227972414
- SCSB-14589821
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries