The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (40 page)

BOOKS

Aldridge, James.
Cairo: Biography of a City.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

Beattie, Andrew.
Cairo: A Cultural History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Benin, Joel.
The Dispersion of Egypt's Jewry.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.

Cooper, Artemis.
Cairo in the War, 1939–1945.
London: Hamilton, 1989.

Danielson, Virginia.
“The Voice of Egypt”: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Heikal, Mohamed.
The Cairo Documents: The Inside Story of Nasser and His Relationship with World Leaders, Rebels, and Statesmen.
New York: Doubleday, 1973.

Hopkins, Harry.
Egypt: The Crucible—The Unfinished Revolution in the Arab World.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

Raafat, Samir W.
Cairo, the Glory Years: Who Built What, When, Why and For Whom.
Alexandria, Egypt: Harpocrates, 2003.

Rodenbeck, Max.
Cairo: The City Victorious.
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1999.

Stadiem, William.
Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991.

Wilber, Donald N., ed.
United Arab Republic, Egypt: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture.
New Haven, Conn.: HRAF Press, 1969.

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Al-Malky, Rania. “Where the Streets Have No Name.”
Egypt Today,
April 2005.

Eban, Suzy. “A Cairo Girlhood.”
New Yorker,
July 15, 1974.

Hassan, Fayza. “In the Pashas' Den.”
Al-Ahram Weekly Online,
no. 459 (December 9–15, 1999).

———. “Sent Away: Who Was King Farouk?”
Al-Ahram Weekly Online,
no. 572 (February 7–13, 2002).

Heard, Linda. “Groppi: People's Memories of the World's Ritziest Tea-Room.”
Community Times,
October 2006.

Raafat, Samir. “Gates of Heaven.”
Cairo Times,
September 2, 1999.

———. “Groppi of Cairo.”
Cairo Times,
June 15, 1996.

———. “Resurrecting Street Names.”
Cairo Times,
May 11, 2000.

Sanua, Victor. “The Vanishing World of Egyptian-Jewry.”
Judaism,
Spring 1994.

Shaimaz, Fayed. “Downtown Cairo: Egypt's Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Community Times,
November 2006.

WEBSITES AND OTHER NEW MEDIA

Bassatine News.
Online Jewish newsletter from remaining Jewish community in Cairo. www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/5855/bassai.htm.

“The Golden Age of Egyptian Dance,” “Taheya Carioca aka Tahiyya Karioka,” and “Samia Gamaal.” Belly Dance Museum.
www.belly-dance.org
/ and
www.venusbellydance.com
.

IAJE, International Association of Jews from Egypt.
www.iaje.org
.

Kiviat, Aaron. “I Buried My Father's Talis at Bassatine.” Letter dated November 25, 1999. Historical Society of Jews from Egypt. HSJE.org (posted 2006).

Sakkal, Desire, ed. “General News and Information.” Historical Society of Jews from Egypt.
www.HSJE.org.

MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES

Lagnado family file. HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), Paris and New York City, 1963–79. Courtesy HIAS.

Lagnado family file. NYANA (New York Association for New Americans), New York City, 1964–65. Courtesy NYANA.

Lagnado family file. COJASOR social service agency. Courtesy of Mémorial de la Shoah—Musée, Centre de Documentation Contemporaine, Paris.

Curriculum Vitae, Death Certificate of Salomon Lagnado aka Père Jean-Marie Lagnado. Courtesy Davide Silvera, Israel.

Red Cross. Letters to Salomone Silvera on the deportation of Bahia, Lelio, and Violetta Silvera to Auschwitz. Cairo, 1945–47.