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I was fascinated to learn that Jews lived among Arabs in comparative peace in Cairo during and after WWII. This is the story of a wealthy Jewish family forced out of Egypt by the growing anti-semitic sentiment, the rise of Islam, and the intolerance of a new regime in power. The family flees to America via Paris and is forced to live in relative poverty while they adjust to life in a new country. Some of them never do, some assimilate very quickly. I liked the memoir very much, but I found some things lacked depth - the backround history of the Jews and Arabs in Egypt for example - things were "getting bad" for them for years, but all of a sudden they had to flee with little explanation of why they felt so persecuted.