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Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Impostor

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The last time Elia Meghnagi saw his childhood home in Benghazi, he was only seventeen years old. A member of the endangered and fast-shrinking millennia-old Jewish community of Libya, in 1958 Elia was forced to flee, finding refuge in Cambridge as a foreign student. It would be years before he saw his parents and siblings again. _x000D_ Always one to rise to a challenge, Elia built a new life for himself in England, finding friends, community, lasting love, and a career in telecomms engineering that would take him across the globe to such far-flung places as South Korea and Mexico, until—missing too much of life with his growing family back home—he swapped his high-flying career for one, no less challenging, in the kosher food business. _x000D_ In this fascinating memoir, Elia looks back on his action-packed life as a square peg in a round hole. Full of nostalgia for his native land and pride in his Sephardi roots, he carries us to the sun-drenched streets of Benghazi and introduces us to its vibrant culture and history, before sharing with us the ups and downs of life as a foreign student and refugee and, eventually, a citizen, in England. _x000D_ Clear-sighted, compassionate, and often humorous, Elia introduces us to a wide array of the fascinating characters he has met, and the challenging situations he has faced. Perhaps most profoundly, in a narrative suffused with wonder and optimism, Elia shares his experience of fitting smoothly into other cultures while never compromising on his own religious principles or practice.

About the Author :
Elia Meghnagi has devoted much of his time to Jewish education, and is also a director of the Simon Weisenthal Centre, UK. Now semi-retired, he and his wife enjoy spending time with their five children and a generous number of grandchildren (most of whom live in Israel). He also writes and gives talks about outstanding Jewish personalities, Jewish practice, and the Libyan Jewish community. He is a director of Snowcrest, a kosher manufacturing company.

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"Seldon does one experience the pleasure of opening a new book and being immediately transported into an unknown and largely inaccessible but vibrant cultural and topsy-turvey political world, where everything seems different and new and exciting."--ESRA, Jennia Ganit Chodorov


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781803710204
  • Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1803710209
  • Publisher Date: 07 Sep 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Diary of an Impostor


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