# Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew

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- Authors: [Dan Vittorio Segre](https://www.bookquiver.com/vittorio-dan-segre)
- Publisher: halban_publishers
- ISBN: 978-18-7001-569-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1998-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" Taut and illuminating ... memorable ... written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness." Primo Levi " Luminous, almost light-hearted, autobiography about a family of Italian Jews under Mussolini." Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times Segre tells the story of his childhood and adolescence in Mussolini's Italy. Nurtured in a world of aristocratic privilege, he emerged naive and unprepared for the realities that awaited him. The crash of 1929 and the introduction of Mussolini's anti-Jewish laws saw him on the boat to Tel Aviv, a rare immigrant with a first-class ticket, jacket, silk tie and detachable linen collar, thrust into the pioneering culture of Palestine in the 1930s. Segre explores the pathos and contradictions of such situations with a keen sense of irony which lifts the book out of the world of memoirs and into the realm of literature.