{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-fortunate-jew","title":"Memoirs Of A Fortunate Jew By Segre, Dan Vittorio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Taut and illuminating ... memorable ... written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness.\" Primo Levi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Luminous, almost light-hearted, autobiography about a family of Italian Jews under Mussolini.\"                      Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSegre 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57554396742014,"sku":"NW9781870015691","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781870015691.jpg?v=1783318408","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/memoirs-of-a-fortunate-jew","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}