"This well-written and accessible translation is a required addition to the libraries of students of culture and memory, the ethnography of Jewish life, North Africa, and the identity of immigrants in their adopted countries." Gut Heskell, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction; l. Foundations; 2. Telling places: the house as social architecture; 3. Telling people: the house and the world; 4. Domestic time; 5. The poetics of remembrance.

"This well-written and accessible translation is a required addition to the libraries of students of culture and memory, the ethnography of Jewish life, North Africa, and the identity of immigrants in their adopted countries." Gut Heskell, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction; l. Foundations; 2. Telling places: the house as social architecture; 3. Telling people: the house and the world; 4. Domestic time; 5. The poetics of remembrance.