ISBN:
9780520393400
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0520393406
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
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illustrations (black and white), maps
Series Statement:
University of California series in Jewish history and cultures 2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Enfance juive en Méditerranée musulmane. English Jewish childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean
DDC:
305.2308992401822
Keywords:
Jews Biography
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Jewish children Biography
;
Jews Biography
;
Jewish children Biography
;
Jews Biography 20th century
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HISTORY / Asia / General
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RELIGION / Judaism / General
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Ethnic relations
;
Jewish children
;
Jews
;
Biographies
;
Mediterranean Region Ethnic relations
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Islamic countries
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Mediterranean Region
Abstract:
"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"--...
Note:
"Originally published as Une enfance juive en Méditerranée musulmane, ©2012 Editions Bleu autour"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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