Gotta Love the Title

I finally started reading this book that Aron Bulman (of blessed memory, gone for three years) lent me and really wanted me to read. it is exceptional. The sentences are beautifully written, thoughtfully constructed. I'm reading it slowly, thankful to be reading it.


Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story by Dan Vittorio Segre

From Publishers Weekly
The author, now in his 60s, is a Haifa University professor, a Jew who grew up in Fascist Italy. With a sharp eye for vivid details, Segre recounts his comfortable childhood in the Piedmont, where his parents were at once assimilated Jews and vigorous Italian patriots. The crisis that sparked his quest for self-identity came in 1938, with the passage of Italy's first antiJewish laws. Once sheltered amid a natural-seeming Fascism, Segre suddenly discovered his "Jewish condition." At 16, virtually ignorant of Judaism, he fled to Palestine, where on a kibbutz and in the British army he worked to understand "the meaning of the new life facing me." Segre's reflections on people and incidents give considerable depth to this unusual story of coming of age.
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