Limmud NY 2014

Wall Street Journal reporter Lucette Lagnado was born in Cairo, Egypt’s once majestic and glamorous capital. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her family lost all they had and were forced to flee. In this session, the award-winning author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suitand The Arrogant Years details her family's generally blissful existence in Cairo, their shattering emigration to New York via Paris, and her childhood in Brooklyn’s immigrant Sephardic community.