Mazaltob A Novel

Brandeis University Press

MazaltobA Novel\nAuthor(s): Blanche Bendahan, Yalle Azagury, Frances Malino\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Brandeis University Press, United States\nImprint: Brandeis University Press\nISBN-13: 9781684582068, 978-1684582068\nSynopsis\nA first-ever English translation of a compelling work by a forerunner of modern Sephardi feminist literature.\n Raised in the Judera or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to Jos, an uncouth man from her own community who has returned from Argentina to take a wife. Mazaltob, however, is in love with Jean, who is French, half-Jewish, and a free spirit. In this classic of North African Jewish fiction, Blanche Bendahan evokes the two compelling forces tearing Mazaltob apart in her body and soul: her loyalty to the Judera and her powerful desire to follow her own voice and find true love. Bendahans nuanced and moving novel is a masterly exploration of the language, religion, a.