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Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the
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&#8220Pognant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of
the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . &#8221#8213Miami
HeraldIn vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates
the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years
before Gamal Abdel Nasser&#8217rise to power. With
Nasser&#8217nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father,
Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white
sharkskin suit, loses everything, and departs with the family 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. An inversion of the American dream set
against the stunning portraits of three world cities, Lucette

Lagnado&#8217memoir offers a grand and sweeping story of
faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph.