Gabbai Family Picnic, Alexandria, April 1924 T h e G a b b a i F a m i l y In the last year of my grandmother's life, I began to talk with her about her family and realised how little she knew or remembered of her heritage. It was then that I decided that a reconstruction of her family's origins was required; I could not simply allow a highly influential part of my identity to slip beneath the sands, and be forgotten forever. As a result, I dedicate this homepage to my grandmot ...