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La mare aux tortues = La balsa de las tortugas / Maurice Deunailles.
- Title
- La mare aux tortues = La balsa de las tortugas / Maurice Deunailles.
- Author
- Deunailles, Maurice
- Publication
- Grenoble : Claude Alzieu Editions, c1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DS135.F9 D48 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 197 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Memoirs of a Sephardi Jew, born Moise Levi in 1912, in Aidin, near Izmir. Describes the history and culture of his mother's family, the Algazis, originally from Andalusia, from the expulsion of 1492 until today. Despite improvements in the lot of Jews under Kemal Ataturk, the family emigrated to France in 1924. Settled in Versailles and then Paris, they fled to Pau in 1940, following the Occupation. They were placed under house arrest near Bordeaux, and subsequently went into hiding. Levi was given false papers and attempted to escape to Spain with his cousin, who was arrested and deported. He joined the Resistance, which enabled him to save his brother from deportation. He escaped seven more times before his return to Paris after the liberation, where he lives today.
- Alternative Title
- Balsa de las tortugas
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Personal narratives
- Language (note)
- Text in French with a few quotations in Spanish translated into French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 2910717054
- LCCN
- ^^^99231411^
- OCLC
- 44586992
- SCSB-12607798
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library