Summary
Eliette Abecassis: Sephardic
Eliette Abecassis weaves a love story, contemporary but also ancient, the story of Moroccans and Sephardic Jews, wavering between stereotypes, deliberately pushing the boundaries of fact and truth. He creates a story anchored in reality, searching for the identity of his heroes, his own identity, his self freed from limitations. The story of the Sephardim, a moving saga about a person, a man and a woman, who discover the human and the universal in themselves by meeting the other in love and hate.
Abecassis deserves great respect for the deep exploration of oneself, one's heritage, nurturing its splendor despite the pitfalls, in order to become aware of who we are as individuals, as a community, to love ourselves as we are, in our strengths and weaknesses. Through this search for origins, he explores the history of the Jews, their rivalries, their culture and their beliefs. Can we escape our fate? The one we choose ourselves? - asks Ester Vital, the main character of the Sephardic novel.
Read this book and spread the word that it could be a modern amulet that will save us from losing our sense of who we are.
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