Title : The Walker of Fez - Eric Fottorino - Book
Summary :
"We would have headed for the Pyrenees. We would have cut Spain from top to bottom. A sort of Caesarean section to exhume your history. We would have gone back to the beginning, to Fez, your hometown. Would we ever have arrived?"
In the fall of 2012, I wanted to take my Moroccan father to the streets of his youth, the Jewish quarter of Fez, the medina, the interlacing of his memories camped between the University of Karaouine and the facade of the Empire which was once the largest cinema in North Africa.
I made the journey without him. Illness decided it, and I became the walker of Fez in his place. I understood what existence is all about. Barely a kilometer separates the mellah from the modern city, the Jewish world from the old European sector. In this handkerchief, Moshé Maman became Maurice Maman. Like all his people, the Moroccan Jew dreamed of integrating into France, of speaking its language, of building his home, his family, his future there.
I walked through alleys and cemeteries, pushed open the doors of the few synagogues, spoke to the last Fassi Jews whose flame would soon be extinguished. At every step, I came across this long-unknown father. Until he came upon me, unexpectedly.
- EAN: 9782702144855
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