Review by Jebolina -- Keys to Tetouan by Mois Benarroch
[Following is a volunteer review of "Keys to Tetouan" by Mois Benarroch.]
3 out of 4 stars
Keys to Tetouan is a nonfiction and an educative book.The story about the Jews is real and it is highly enlightening on the intrigues and the coarse of the Jewish people world wide.Despite all these,I also learnt that the term "gringo" refers to a gentleman.The book shows the transformation of people's lives through regional migrations for greener pastures.This entailed the big immigrations of 7000 Jews to Argentina,to Oran,to Spain,to Venezuela and to Brazil too.
As well as a consideration for a better connection between the Arabs and the Israelites, by putting aside past hostile relations between them.This was emphasised in page 64 and I quote
"It needs to be said that after Spain,Poland and Germany and all our history with the rest of Europe,we need to finally understand we have no reason avoiding closer connections to the Arab nations and that considering our history with them too,which I wouldn't define as ideal".
The emergence of cultural destabilization of the Israelites in other lands other than theirs resulted in the need for a social and ethical reformation of the characters in the book with a view of finding the keys to Tetouan.For instance Maraka Anual is trying to identify himself by finding the logic for the eight years of his life but couldn't find it.Despite the fact that he was twenty years older than his wife,she died before him,which made it clear to him that he was going to die where his father and grandfather died.
The book depicts how the Jews were exiled from one country to another and their struggles to identify with a territorial origin without any discrimination.Keys to Tetouan also tells us of the uncertainties in life,as the saying goes.....no one knows tommorrow.The latter statement is in conjunction with the paraphrase from page 48 and I quote.
"time in on our side,the side of the Benzimra family,the longer it takes the more certain they're coming".
I don't agree with the author in his implying that when a person changes country or migrates to another,he changes nationality.On page 127 when she said to her son
"there we were Jews,here we are Moroccans".
So far it's not against the constitutional laws of the land.Though this wasn't the case for the Jews.
I refer this book to anyone who wants to know about the Jews and their dilemma as a people.I rate this story a 3 out of 4 stars.I would have rated it 4 out of 4 stars if it had aspects of action and suspense in it.Nevertheless,I give the author a big thumbs up in his choice of use of the various parts of speech (examples include irony,hyperbole etc) to send the message of the novel.
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Keys to Tetouan
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3 out of 4 stars
As well as a consideration for a better connection between the Arabs and the Israelites, by putting aside past hostile relations between them.This was emphasised in page 64 and I quote
"It needs to be said that after Spain,Poland and Germany and all our history with the rest of Europe,we need to finally understand we have no reason avoiding closer connections to the Arab nations and that considering our history with them too,which I wouldn't define as ideal".
The emergence of cultural destabilization of the Israelites in other lands other than theirs resulted in the need for a social and ethical reformation of the characters in the book with a view of finding the keys to Tetouan.For instance Maraka Anual is trying to identify himself by finding the logic for the eight years of his life but couldn't find it.Despite the fact that he was twenty years older than his wife,she died before him,which made it clear to him that he was going to die where his father and grandfather died.
The book depicts how the Jews were exiled from one country to another and their struggles to identify with a territorial origin without any discrimination.Keys to Tetouan also tells us of the uncertainties in life,as the saying goes.....no one knows tommorrow.The latter statement is in conjunction with the paraphrase from page 48 and I quote.
"time in on our side,the side of the Benzimra family,the longer it takes the more certain they're coming".
I don't agree with the author in his implying that when a person changes country or migrates to another,he changes nationality.On page 127 when she said to her son
"there we were Jews,here we are Moroccans".
So far it's not against the constitutional laws of the land.Though this wasn't the case for the Jews.
I refer this book to anyone who wants to know about the Jews and their dilemma as a people.I rate this story a 3 out of 4 stars.I would have rated it 4 out of 4 stars if it had aspects of action and suspense in it.Nevertheless,I give the author a big thumbs up in his choice of use of the various parts of speech (examples include irony,hyperbole etc) to send the message of the novel.
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Keys to Tetouan
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon | on iTunes
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