{"product_id":"a-jewish-childhood-in-the-muslim-mediterranean-a-collection-of-stories-curated-by-leila-sebbar-volume-2","title":"A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar Volume 2","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean \u003c\/i\u003ebrings 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 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 community into which its author was born. The present translation makes this unique collection available to an English-speaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeïla Sebbar\u003c\/b\u003e is an Algerian novelist who has directed several collections on childhood and writers in exile, including \u003ci\u003eAn Algerian Childhood: A Collection of Autobiographical Narratives, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnfances tunisiennes\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Une enfance outremer\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLia Brozgal\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAbsent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris (17 October 1961).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Glasberg\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Kuntz\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of French-language fiction and nonfiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebekah Vince\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in French at Queen Mary University of London and editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eFrancosphères\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Cinema and Television Studies at State University of New York, Purchase College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497860272402,"sku":"9780520393394","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1c4c8126-1de7-410f-83e1-a000687ec092.jpg?v=1730722086","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-jewish-childhood-in-the-muslim-mediterranean-a-collection-of-stories-curated-by-leila-sebbar-volume-2","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}