A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

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A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar

By Lia Brozgal

Series: University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures

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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean presents a compelling collection of personal narratives from Jewish writers and intellectuals raised in Muslim-majority regions shaped by French colonial politics. These essays explore childhoods that are deeply Jewish yet intertwined with Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish cultural identities, revealing richly layered, multicultural experiences. Originally published in French and recipient of the Prix Haïm Zafrani, this English translation offers valuable insight into the diverse Jewish diasporas of the Mediterranean.
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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 valorises Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.

Series: University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures

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“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

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520393394

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 36 b-w images; 7 maps

Contributors:

Edited by Lia Brozgal
Edited by Rebecca Glasberg
Contributions by Jane Kuntz
Contributions by Rebekah Lois Vince
Contributions by Robert Jay Watson
Edited by Leïla Sebbar

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 279

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Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Lia Brozgal Middle Eastern History Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures

About the Author

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.

A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean