Moïse Rahmani

Moïse Rahmani ( born 1944 in Cairo ) is a Belgian writer.

Life

Rahmani comes from a Jewish family and was born in Cairo. In 1956 his family moved when he was 12 years old, in the former Belgian Congo, where a small colony of Sephardic Jews existed. Due to the Congo crisis his family had to leave the country. Since the 1980 Rahmani lives in Belgium where he works as a diamond merchant. He publishes the magazine Los Muestros, published the news for the Jewish community. Rahmani writes in his works on the history and culture of the Sephardic Jews.

Works (selection)

• Les Juifs du soleil, portraits de Sépharades de Belgique
• Rhodes, Un Pan de Notre Mémoire 2000 - a tribute to the birthplace of his grandmother on the Aegean island of Rhodes
• L' Exode oublié, Réfugiés Juifs des pays arabes 2003
• Lettre à un frère
• Tu le rire choisiras Anecdotes, proverbes, superstitions et traditions juives
• Sous le joug du Croissant Juifs en terre d' islam, une minorité opprimée
• Shalom Bwana. La Saga des Juifs du Congo la confiance et l' espoir 2001