Works By Egyptian Jews On Their Communities
- Ronit Matalon, Zeh ‘im ha-panim eleynu ('The one facing us') (novel of life in an Egyptian Jewish family)
- Yahudiya Misriya (pseudonym of Giselle Littman, Bat Ye'or), Les juifs en Egypte: Aperçu sur 3000 ans d'histoire, Geneva: Editions de l'Avenir, 1971 (In the Hebrew trans.Yehudei mitzrayim, 1974, the authoress is called Bat-Ye’or).
- Lucette Lagnado, "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" (an autobiography of a Jewish family during their years in Egypt and after they emigrated to the United States)
- Mangoubi, Rami, "My Longest 10 Minutes", The Jerusalem Post Magazine, May 31, 2007. A Cairo Jewish boyhood during and after the Six Day War.
- "Out of Egypt" by Andre Aciman, Picador, 1994
- "Growing Up Under Pharaoh", by Maurice M. Mizrahi, 2004, http://www.hsje.org/growing_up_under_pharaoh.htm, video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVt6m0Ubbt0&feature=youtu.be
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