"Jews from Egypt". Are not the two terms inconsistent The Jews are they not according to tradition "Those who CAME OUT from the land of Egypt".

This Jewish community has known several times, over a historical period of 32 centuries, moments of glory, liberty and cultural radiance. Today, history has separated for the first time Egypt from its Jews. The ordinary traveler does not know that he could still discover present remnants of a very ancient Jewish Culture.

Thus many of us who were attached to the Nile Valley wanted to keep alive the memories of this vanished community and transmit by photographs (400 pictures) and texts the legacy of those Jews from Egypt. They included distinguished rabbis and intellectuals , such as Philo of Alexandria, R. Saadia Gaon, R. Moshe Ben Maimon better known as Maimonides, the Radbaz, Yaacob Sanua, the Great rabbis Haim Nahoum, Moshe Ventura, also Carlos Suares, Elian Finbert, George Cattaoui, Edmond Jabes...and many others

In putting together the fragments of a puzzle, photographs were assembled to create a world that has vanished. The authors of the book have expressed their desire to reawaken, this world with its contradictions raising questions about the role of this minority in a region which for a number of millennia, has seen the building and destruction of nations.

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