Jewish women exiled from Egypt to New York share glimpses of a lost world by the author of KhulKhaal Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories Between 1948 and 1957 a period that witnessed two wars between Egypt and Israel 60000 members of Egypts 75000strong Jewish population left the country compelled by growing hostility to them because of their presumed links to Zionism economic insecurity and after 1956 overt expulsion. Decades later during the 1980s and 1990s the personal reminiscences of ei