A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of
the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s,
migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and
beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of
and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt
that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some
of these Jewish migrants were already familiar with their new
countries of residence because of colonial ties or of Zionism, and
often spoke the language. Why, then, was the act of leaving so
painful and why, more than fifty years afterward, is its memory
still so tangible? Dario Miccoli examines how the memories of a
bygone Sephardi Mediterranean world became preserved in three
national contexts—Israel, France, and Italy—where the Jews of
the Middle East and North Africa and their descendants migrated and
nowadays live. A Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and
heritage-making—from the writing of novels and memoirs to the
opening of museums and memorials, the activities of heritage
associations and state-led celebrations—has filled an identity
vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa
and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today but
also reinforce their connection to a vanished world now remembered
with nostalgia, affection, and sadness.
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