A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla SebbarLia Brozgal, Rebecca Glasberg, 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, 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. |
Contents
Turkey | 8 |
Annie TaïebGoldmann five or six years old Mateur | 13 |
Roni Margulies | 23 |
Country Snapshot | 37 |
Lebanon | 38 |
Country Snapshot | 55 |
Egypt | 56 |
Tobie Nathan | 71 |
Albert Bensoussan | 133 |
Joëlle Bahloul class photo DiaresSaada School for Girls Algiers 1958 | 134 |
Patrick Chemla six years old and family BergèresousMontmirail | 141 |
Line MellerSaïd class photo Lavigerie Preschool Blida 19361937 | 159 |
Aldo Naouri | 174 |
Aldo Naouri around ten years old Orléansville circa 1948 | 175 |
Country Snapshot | 193 |
André Azoulay leading parade Moulay Al Hassan Square 1955 | 198 |
Tunisia | 80 |
Annie Goldmann | 88 |
Hubert Haddad approximately three years old La Goulette | 94 |
Nine Moati and family Verdun Square Tunis 1943 | 107 |
Country Snapshot | 119 |
Algeria | 120 |
JeanLuc Allouche class photo Aumale High School of Constantine | 123 |
Ami Bouganim | 207 |
Marcel Bénabou as a teenager Meknes | 208 |
Daniel Sibony | 229 |
Daniel Sibonys childhood home on Derb Djama Street Bahia | 230 |
List of Contributors | 247 |
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