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Jacqueline Kahanoff of Israeli Jews of Sephardi and Mizrahi origins. As a testament to this influence, Jacqueline Kahanoff appears as a character in Ronit Matalon’s novel "Ze ‘im ha-panim eleinu" (The One Facing Us), and two of Kahanoff’s essays are reprinted within the novel. The text of Kahanoff's "Europe from Afar" is also the basis for the video art piece of the same title by Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf (2001). Kahanoff's writings were also an inspiration the Journal of Levantine Studies, which printed her essay "What about Levantinization?" it the inaugural issue. Jacqueline Kahanoff Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff ( (1917-1979] was an