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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With expository grace, David Ohana has penned an analytically supple and compelling intellectual portrait of a woman who embodied the vision of Israel's integration in an irenic multicultural universe of the Levant."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago
"By sympathetically recounting the life and thought of the cosmopolitan Levantine intellectual Jacqueline Kahanoff, David Ohana blows on the dying embers of 'Mediterranean humanism' in the hope that they may still burst into glorious flame."—Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley.
"This engaging biography of Jacqueline Kahanoff lays out her extraordinary journey between countries, languages, and intellectual milieux that shaped her rise as an independent-minded essayist and writer whose views on Levantinism and modernity attracted attention in Israel and beyond. An important book that deserves a wide readership."—Yael Zerubavel, Author of Desert in the Promised Land
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Levantinism—Ex oriente lux
1. A Tale of Four Cities
2. Levantinism: A Cultural Theory
3. Kahanoff's Poetic Journey
4. "Where Can I Feel at Home?"
5. Being a Modern Woman
6. Beyond the Levant
7. Life at the Edge of the Line
Epilogue: Kahanoff and the Humanist Mediterranean Heritage
Notes
Bibliography
Index
