Jacqueline Kahanoff: A Levantine Woman is the first intellectual
biography of this remarkable Egyptian-Jewish intellectual, whose
work has secured her place in literary pantheon as a herald of
Levantine, Mediterranean, and transnational culture. Growing up
Jewish in cosmopolitan Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s, Jacqueline
Kahanoff experienced a bustling Middle East enriched by diverse
languages, religions, and peoples who nonetheless were deeply
connected to each other through history, business, daily practices,
and shared landscape. At the age of twenty-four, Kahanoff
immigrated to the United States. Her stories, essays, and short
autobiographical novel attest to her penchant to cross boundaries,
generations, social classes, sexes, and Western and Eastern
constructs. After immigrating to Israel in the early 1950s, she
critically addressed the country's "provinciality" and "ethnic
nationalism" as seen through her conception of a transnational
Levantine culture. Through many writings, Kahanoff set forth her
distinctive vision of Israel as a Mediterranean country with a
broad, multicultural Levantine identity. Drawing on an extensive
array of sources, ranging from interviews with Jacqueline
Kahanoff's acquaintances and contemporaries to unpublished
writings, David Ohana explores her fascinating life and
intellectual journey from Cairo to Tel Aviv. The encompassing
vision of a Levantine Israel made Kahanoff the initiator of a
different cultural possibility, more extensive than that offered in
her time, and also, perhaps, than is offered today.
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