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Jacqueline Kahanoff

Egyptian-born Israeli novelist

Died when: 62 years 159 days (749 months)
Star Sign: Taurus

Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Hebrew: ?'???? ?????;Arabic: ?????? ?????;May 18, 1917 – October 24, 1979) was an Egyptian-born Israeli novelist, essayist and journalist.Kahanaff wrote in English, although she is best known for a cycle of essays, “A Generation of Levantines,” that was published in Israel in Hebrew translation in 1959.

These pieces lay out her notion of “Levantinism,” a social model of coexistence drawn from her childhood experiences in Egyptian cosmopolitan society in the interwar period.

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