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. Yaëlle Azagury is a writer, literary scholar, and critic. She was a lecturer in French and Francophone studies at Barnard College and a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is a native of Tangier, Morocco. Frances Malino is the Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History Emerita at Wellesley College. In 2012 she was named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education.

Product details

• Authors: Blanche Bendahan
• Assisted by: Yaelle Azagury (Translation), Frances Malino (Translation)
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781684582068
• ISBN: 978-1-68458-206-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies