A Jewish childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean a collection of stories curated by Leïla Sebbar

"A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, schol...

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Other Authors: Sebbar, Leïla (Editor), Brozgal, Lia Nicole (Editor), Glasberg, Rebecca (Editor), Kuntz, Jane (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2023, [2023]©2023
Series:University of California series in Jewish history and cultures
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Introduction : a Jewish childhood in translation / Lia Brozgal -- Note on translation and transliteration -- Preface : It would be the same story / Leïla Sebbar -- Country snapshot [Turkey] / Rebecca Glasberg -- Matzah, simit, and white cheese / Lizi Behmoaras -- Mamma Sultana's unicorns / Moris Farhi -- A non-Jewish Turkish Jew / Roni Margulies -- Her name was Dursineh / Rosie Pinhas-Delpuech -- Country snapshot [Lebanon] / Rebecca Glasberg -- The dead-end alley / Lucien Elia -- The baker's son / Yves Turquier -- Country snapshot [Egypt] / Rebecca Glasberg -- Jo and Rita / Rita Rachel Cohen -- The blue Muslims / Mireille Cohen-Massouda -- Jour de fête / Tobie Nathan -- Country snapshot [Tunisia] / Rebecca Glasberg -- Nothing about childhood / Chochana Boukhobza -- A triple coexistence / Annie Goldmann -- Of wings and footprints / Hubert Haddad -- The broken bargain / Ida Kummer -- Open letter to my grandchildren Adrien, Élie, Raphael and Anna / Nine Moati -- The Jewish boy from Monastir / Guy Sitbon -- Country snapshot [Algeria] / Rebecca Glasberg -- Excellent Frenchmen / Jean-Luc Allouche -- Diar-es-Saada / Joëlle Bahloul -- Djelfa, my beloved / Albert Benoussan -- Between agony and delight / Patrick Chemla -- An Algiers girlhood / Alice Cherki -- Kaddish for a lost childhood / Roger Dadoun -- Like a slap in the face / Line Meller-Saïd -- "No, not Jewish. Israelite." / Daniel Mesguich -- With all due respect / Aldo Naouri -- The Hammam, and afterwards / Benjamin Stora -- The courtyard / Dany Toubiana -- Country snapshot [Morocco] / Rebecca Glasberg -- For other tomorrows? / André Azoulay -- The ocean in a carafe / Marcel Benabou -- God's cradle / Ami Bouganim -- Flecks of memory / Anny Dayan-Rosenman -- Mamada / Lucette Heller-Goldenberg -- Crossing an invisible distance / Nicole S. Serfaty -- In the medina / Daniel Sibony -- Living between the lines / Ralph Toledano 
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520 |a "A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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"--