Mazaltob - A Novel

"The novel Mazaltob (1930) by Blanche Bendahan is the forerunner of a modern Sephardi feminist literature in French, which in recent decades has earned growing recognition. Yet this model for a vital current of post-colonial literature has disappeared from our cultural memory. Rendering the novel Mazaltob into English aims to repair that loss"--

About the author

Blanche Bendahan (1893-1975) was born in Algeria to a Jewish family of Moroccan descent and moved to France shortly after she was born. She was a writer of poetry as well as fiction. Mazaltob, which won an award from the Académie Française, was her first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Blanche Bendahan
• Assisted by: Yaelle Azagury (Translation), Yaëlle Azagury (Translation), Frances Malino (Translation)
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781684582051
• ISBN: 978-1-68458-205-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 153 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry; Tauber Institute Series for th
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies