eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
12 July 2019
In Memory of Lucette Lagnado, A”H, recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, her first of two memoirs on her family’s Egyptian-Jewish experience and emigration to the United States; avenging and award-winning investigative reporter for The Village Voice, NY Post, Forward; and, since 1996, The Wall Street Journal; dear friend and passionate supporter of The American Sephardi Federation, researcher (including for her forthcoming book) in the ASF’s National Sephardic Library & Archives, and frequent speaker and guest at the ASF’s programs; and proud Sephardic woman and member of the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation. Lagnado will be sorely missed by her family, friends, and many admirers.
