In the footsteps of Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and Lucette Lagnado's The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy's Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories, culled from Zevy's first three books, which crackle with wit, brazen sentimentality and unfiltered self-awareness. This collection adds a comic and often poignant twist to the story of the nearly 1 million strong Jews who lived in Arab lands...