Memmi, Albert (Personal Name)

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His La statue de sel, 1953.

His Yehudim ṿe-ʻArvim, 1975: t.p. (Alber Memi [voc.]) t.p. verso (Albert Memmi [in rom.])

Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1920)

Wikipedia, French version, Sep. 4, 2014 (Albert Memmi; b. Dec. 15, 1920 in Tunis; Franco-Tunisian writer and essayist; also taught at lycée Carnot de Tunis (1953) and later, retreating to France after the independence of Tunisia, at the École pratique des hautes études, at HEC, and at Univ. de Nanterre (1970); though he supported Tunisia's emancipation, he could not find his place in the new Muslim state; in the early 1970s he reflected on the meaning of being Jewish; in his book Le racisme he developed the concept of "hétérophobie"; of which racism is a particular expression; language of writing, French)

Washington post WWW site, viewed June 1, 2020 (in obituary dated May 30, 2020: Albert Memmi, a Tunisian-born writer whose novels and sociological studies explored his tangled heritage as a Jewish outsider in a largely Muslim country that was part of France's colonial empire, died May 22 in Paris. He was 99. Albert Memmi was born Dec. 15, 1920, in Tunis. He received a doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1970 and, in 1975, became one of the directors of France's graduate-level School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences)