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Jacqueline Kahanoff
Essays on Levantine identity and coexistence
Jacob’s Ladder · A Generation of Levantines
- Born
- 18 May 1917
- Birthplace
- Cairo
- Died
- 24 October 1979
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Jacqueline Kahanoff
Jacqueline Kahanoff drew on cosmopolitan Cairo to explore mixed cultural identities. Writing in English, she reached many readers through Hebrew translations of her essays.
Early life
Cairo and New York
Grew up in an Egyptian Jewish family with Iraqi and Tunisian roots and later studied journalism at Columbia.
Career
- 1940
United States
Moved abroad and began publishing fiction.
- 1954
Israel
Settled there after a period in Paris.
- 1959
Essay cycle
Published A Generation of Levantines in translation.
Selected work
Jacob’s Ladder
Her novel drew on an Egyptian setting.
A Generation of Levantines
Essays developed her account of cultural coexistence.
Beyond work
Family
Married Alexander Kahanoff in Paris in 1952 after her first marriage had ended.
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