Research Catalog

Title

• האיש בחליפת עור הכריש הלבנה.
• ha-Ish ba-ḥalifat ʻor ha-karish ha-levanah : yetsiʼat mishpaḥti mi-Ḳahir ha-yeshanah la-ʻolam he-ḥadash / Luseṭ Laniʼado ; me-Anglit Shaʼul Leṿin.

Author

Matalon Lagnado, Lucette. (Harvard local name)

Publication

Or Yehudah : Kineret : Zemorah-Bitan, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Levin, Shaul

Description

399 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape. With all of their belongings packed into 26 suitcases, their jewels and gold coins hidden in sealed tins of marmalade, Leon and his family depart for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.--From publisher description.

Uniform Title

Man in the white sharkskin suit. Hebrew.

Alternative Title

Man in the white sharkskin suit.

Subject

• Matalon Lagnado, Lucette. (Harvard local name)
• Jews > Cairo > Biography
• Jews, Egyptian > New York (State) > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

339358610

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library