Mémoires d’un aventurier juif. Du Shtetl de Lituanie au Soudan du Mahdi. Histoire A healthy mind in a

A healthy mind in a Zen body

the first book published in France devoted to this artist

and ecstasy

More than a simple presentation of objects illustrating the subject

Mémoires d’un aventurier juif. Du Shtetl de Lituanie au Soudan du Mahdi. Histoire A healthy mind in aA child prodigy born in Riteve, Lithuania, in 1855, Getzel Selikovich was sent to Paris where he studied Semitic languages and Egyptology, and began an extraordinary journey that took him to Africa, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, each time leading to numerous encounters. A "great reporter" before his time, a student of Ernest Renan and Gaston Maspero at the Collge de France, and unwittingly the inspiration for the revival of spoken Hebrew during his