Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

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 is a fascinating collection of coming-of- age stories, growing up Jewish in a multitude of countries that form the region geographically and culturally."