From One Shore, the Other … the Image of France in the Works of Contemporary Judeo-Maghrebi Novelists

Tartakowsky, Ewa

doi:10.1080/17409292.2013.757492

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“…He began to have an idea of Israel that was related to the white light of Tunis." 40 As also found in novels and memoirs by Jews from Morocco and in Un été à Jérusalem, the Promised Land paradoxically is the place where the Diaspora comes back to life. 41 This also reminds one of the Algerian pieds-noirs of Maltese origin who nowadays embark on memory voyages to the land of their ancestors, Malta, where most of them have never been but which is perceived as another, mediated Algeria.…”

Section: For the Love Of The Fathermentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Like the character Josua Aïssa from Edmond El Maleh's novel, a "Moroccan Jew who was assimilated and westernised to the tips of his fingers", 39 these writers came to learn that in fact their acculturation process had engendered a double alienation for them -from their Arab Jewish identity and from the Jewish past in this part of the Mediterranean. 40 Rediscovering the foreignness of French culture to the Maghreb, some of these authors sought to relativise the degree to which they credit France with "bringing civilisation". Some authors use clothing as a metaphor for this assimilation, one where a new garment becomes conflated with one's own skin.…”

Section: The Weight Of Historical Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Halac's collaboration with one of the key centres of Jewish cultural activity in the city of Buenos Aires resulted in Mil años, un día (1983), a play that deals with the paradigmatic year 1492. 40 Thousand years . .…”

Section: Ricardo Halac: Theatre As Reflexive Realismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The novel contains plenty of elements of the religious and cultural tradition of Libyan Jewry. The daily life in the village, the relationships with the neighbours, the house and its objects, 40 the uniqueness of the rural landscape: everything is vividly described. And indeed, as the author explained to me in an interview, her aim was to pay homage to the heritage of her family, to reconnect to it, and in a sense also to reconcile with it.…”

Section: A Different Look Towards the Past: Between Reconciliation Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The many young men native to Sefrou who died in the Israeli wars are mentioned: "Most of the young men who were with us in Cyprus and from our city (Sefrou) have fallen." 40 It is believed that the arrival in Israel of public figures with an important status in the Jewish Sefrou community such as Sidi Avraham might also improve the status of the whole community in the new Israeli environment: "In our city of Sefrou he (Sidi Avraham) would help everyone, freeing anyone possessed by demons and freeing men and women from the dibbuq." 41 In popular imagination there was no doubt that such an influential public figure would be listened to by the new Israeli authorities: "The mayor will certainly listen to him and so will the head of government."…”

Section: Emanuela Trevisan Semimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

Miccoli¹

2017

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In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews. However, few of these studies abandoned the Diaspora/ Israel dichotomy and analysed the Jews who moved to Israel and those that settled elsewhere as part of a new, diverse and interconnected diaspora. Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature argues that the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s and afterwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena, in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on novelists, poets, professional and amateur writers-from the Israeli poets Erez Biton and Shva Salhoov to Francophone authors such as Chochana Boukhobza, Ami Bouganim and Serge Moati-the book explains that these Sephardic and Mizrahi authors are part of a global literary diaspora at the crossroads of past Arab legacies, new national identities and persistent feelings of Jewishness. Some of the chapters emphasise how the Sephardic and Mizrahi past and present identities are narrated, how generational and ethno-national issues are taken into account and which linguistic and stylistic strategies the authors adopted. Other chapters focus more explicitly on how the relations between national societies and different Jewish migrant communities are narrated, both in today's Israel and in the Diaspora. The book helps to bridge the gap between Hebrew and postcolonial literature, and opens up new perspectives on Sephardic and Mizrahi literature. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Jewish and Postcolonial Studies and Comparative Literature.

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Section: For the Love Of The Fathermentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: The Weight Of Historical Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ricardo Halac: Theatre As Reflexive Realismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Different Look Towards the Past: Between Reconciliation Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Emanuela Trevisan Semimentioning

confidence: 99%

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