Moïse Rahmani

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Moïse Rahmani (born August 29, 1944 in Cairo ; † September 18, 2016 ) was a Belgian writer .

Life

Rahmani came from a Jewish family and was born in Cairo. In 1956, when he was 12 years old, his family moved to what was then the Belgian Congo , where there was a small colony of Sephardic Jews. The Congo crisis forced his family to leave the country. Rahmani had lived in Belgium since the 1980s , where he worked as a diamond dealer. He edited Los Muestros magazine, which publishes news for the Jewish community. Rahmani wrote about the history and culture of the Sephardic Jews in his works .

Works (selection)

  • Les Juifs du soleil, portraits de Sépharades de Belgique
  • Rhodes, Un Pan de Notre Mémoire 2000 - a dedication to the birthplace of his 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , accessed April 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rahmani, Moïse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian author
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2016