A Mediterranean Journey Through a Jewish Family.
This is about a different kind of Jewish diaspora, about people whose dominant experience is not only one of tragedy and loss, but of triumphant survival through displacement.
Fanning out from the tiny island of Malta and the least known Jewish community in the world, Aline P'nina Tayar's family finds homes, acceptance and a kind of peace in an assortment of nations and cultures around the Mediterranean. They settle and thrive in Tunisia, France, Italy, Egypt. Even, finally, in Australia.
The author, who describes herself as a Maltese Jewish Australian Englishwoman, brings to this saga of transplantation a wry, gentle humour, a brilliantly observant eye for cultural nuance and an unselfconscious compassion for her extraordinary ancestry.
