A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar

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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar

Lia Brozgal, Lia Brozgal, Rebecca Glasberg , Jane Kuntz

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English

University of California Press
17 August 2023

Middle Eastern history; Social & cultural history; Judaism; Jewish studies

Series: University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures

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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer up a set of literary portraits that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith communities into which its author was born. This translation makes this unique collection of essays available to a broad anglophone public for the first time. The original version, published in French in 2012, was awarded the Prix Haïm Zafrani, a prize given by the Elie Wiesel Institute of Jewish Studies to a literary project that valorizes Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.

By: Lia Brozgal
Contributions by: Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Lois Vince
Edited by: Lia Brozgal, Rebecca Glasberg
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520393394
ISBN 10: 0520393392
Series: University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures
Pages: 279
Publication Date: 17 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leïla Sebbar is an Algerian novelist who has directed several collections on childhood and writers in exile, including An Algerian Childhood: A Collection of Autobiographical Narratives, Enfances tunisiennes, and Une enfance outremer. Lia Brozgal is Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris (17 October 1961). Rebecca Glasberg is a PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on representations of Jews and Jewishness in francophone postcolonial North African fiction. Jane Kuntz is a translator of French-language fiction and nonfiction. Rebekah Vince is Lecturer in French at Queen Mary University of London and editor of the journal Francosphères. Robert Watson is Lecturer in Cinema and Television Studies at State University of New York, Purchase College.

Reviews for A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar

"""A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean is a fascinating collection of coming-of- age stories, growing up Jewish in a multitude of countries that form the region geographically and culturally."" * Sephardic Horizons *"