I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.

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