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Mon oncle d'Algérie

Mon oncle d'Algérie

Funès, Nathalie

Paperback

Series: Essais - Documents

African HistoryLetters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 2234062497
ISBN13: 9782234062498
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 3 2010
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

In my childhood memories, my great-uncle, Fernand Doukhan, was a grumpy old man who seemed to fight windmills. Ten years after his death, this image clashed head on with a brief biographical notice I found on the internet: it mentioned his anarchist past in Algeria. That is how the idea for this book was born. He was from a Jewish Berber family (about 50% of Algerian Jews are Berber) who had probably settled there as far back as the Eleventh Century. He was born in Algeria in 1913 and was the first man in the family to be born French, the first to have a non-Hebrew first name, the first to learn French at school, the first to become a teacher and not an upholsterer, hawker or cleaner. When the first FLN offensives began in November 1954, Fernand Doukhan had already taken his side: the Independence. He died in Montpellier in 1996. Leaving no memories, no letters or even any children. This book has been a long journey through the past, trying to find the tracks he left behind, in France, in Algeria, in archives, and with witnesses who came across him.

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