From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds (Paperback)

from bakersfieldbarbara

I enjoyed author Jacquilini Semha's journey from Tunisia to France, Israel, Canada and finally to the United States. She had to adjust, as we all would, to the great cultural differences along the way from the land of her childhood to her ultimate adulthood home. I found some sections that she wr...

from rentie

Engaging read

from Jillian_Kay

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. From Bomboloni to Bagel is a book about a Tunisian of Jewish descent coming to America via Paris and Canada. Some of the chapters were hard to relate to, being a bagel child myself, but overall the stories were very enjoyable. Each chapter was very short, and I fo...

from jurai2

What a brave and fascinating person Jacqueline Smach is! I loved reading about her life and seeing her experiences and perceptions about each of the places she has lived. Parts of the book made me sad (The biggest thing that stuck out in that regard was when she wrote about being a teacher and so...

from beckyhaase

FROM BOMBOLONI TO BAGEL: A Story of Two Worlds by Jacqueline Semha Gmach and H S Liber This interesting and informative book detailing the life of a Jewish woman born and raised in Tunisia and finally living in America is written in a series of vignettes. The order of the vignettes wanders from T...