Moïse Rahmani
Moïse Rahmani (Cairo, 1944) is a Belgian author of Sephardic extraction.[1]
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Biography
Rahmani was born in Cairo, Egypt into a Jewish family. His paternal grandmother was a Jew from Rhodes. In 1956, at the age of 12, he left with his family for the then Belgian Congo, where a colony of Greek-Sephardic Jews was created, but the Congo Crisis of 1960–1966 led to his family emigrating. Resident in Belgium since 1980 Rahmani worked as a diamond dealer before in the 1980s launching the quarterly review Los Muestros (www.sefarad.org) which publishes news of the Sephardic community around the world. Rahmani has researched and written numerous publications on the Jewish communities of Belgian Congo, many who like his family, left their ancestral homes from the Greek island of (then Ottoman Turkey) Rhodes for the former Belgian colony of Congo before the wars in the early 20th century.[2][3][4][5][6]
Works
- Les Juifs du soleil, portraits de Sépharades de Belgique,
- Rhodes, Un Pan de Notre Mémoire 2000 - a homage to the birthplace of his paternal grandmother on the Aegean Island of Rhodes.
- L'Exode oublié, Réfugiés Juifs des pays arabes 2003
- Lettre à un frère
- Tu choisiras le rire Anecdotes, proverbes, superstitions et traditions juives
- Sous le joug du Croissant Juifs en terre d'islam, une minorité opprimée
- Shalom Bwana. La Saga des Juifs du Congo la confiance et l'espoir 2001
References
- ↑ JUIFS ET CHRETIENS EN TERRE D'ISLAM (de Jean A. Neyroud www.sefarad.org/?p=1560 "22 mai 2010 – Depuis 1980, Moïse Rahmani réside en Belgique. Il anime une émission à Radio Judaïca, milite pour les organisations sépharades, fonde le ..."
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Los Muestros magazine 1999 "L'ouvrage de Moïse Rahmani sur l'histoire juive de Rhodes est passionnant à plus d'un titre. ... The aulhor was born in Cairo, descending partly from a Rhodes family who emigrated to Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century ..."
- ↑ Egyptian Jewry: guide to Egyptian Jewry in the mid-fifties Victor D. Sanua, International Association of Jews from Egypt - 2005 "(5) Remarks by Moise Rahmani on His Departure from Cairo and the Nostalgia over leaving Egypt. Moise Rahmani remembers vividly the blackouts and the deafening sirens in Cairo during the first Israeli war. It was assumed that Israeli ..."
- ↑ La lettre sépharade magazine 2005 "Moise Rahmani, discussing the ISRAEL family and the 1840 blood libel in his book Rhodes, un pan de notre Mémoire Les Editions "
- ↑ Avotaynu: the international review of Jewish genealogy: 12 1996 "In this issue is a summary of a talk given to the Cercle by Moise Rahmani, founder of the Sephardic review Los Muestros (66, ... In 1956, Rahmani's family left Cairo for the Congo, where a "Jewish Rhodes" was recreated."
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- 1944 births
- Belgian Jews
- Belgian people of Greek-Jewish descent
- Belgian people of Egyptian-Jewish descent
- 21st-century Belgian writers
- Belgian male writers
- Democratic Republic of the Congo Jews
- Democratic Republic of the Congo people of Greek-Jewish descent
- Democratic Republic of the Congo people of Egyptian descent
- Diamond dealers
- Egyptian Jews
- Living people
- Sephardi Jews
