«Looking for my brothers» (Genesis 37,16) The writer Ya’akov Yehoshua (1905-1982) and his memories of the old Sephardic community in Jerusalem

Abstract

<p>This paper presents a few and basic lines on the splendor and decadence of the Sephardic community of Jerusalem and its language throughout the twentieth century as mirrored in the life and work of the writer Ya’akov Yehoshua (1905-1982), father of the Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua.</p>

Keywords

• Ya‘akov Yehoshua
• Jerusalén
• Sefardíes
• Spanyolit