For the Love of the Father - Paperback

Boukhobza, Chochana: - Born in Sfax, Tunisia in 1959, speaking Arabic and Hebrew as a child, Chochana Boukhobza immigrated to France in 1964 with her family as most of the Tunisian Jewish community was uprooted. She moved to Israel as a teen to study mathematics and physics in Jerusalem, a period that has greatly influenced her writing. Upon her return to France she worked in radio, television and press as a journalist, and she has written several screenplays and award-winning documentaries about the lives of Jewish children, women and families as experienced during WWII. Her many novels are critically acclaimed, and although none of her books are announced as autobiographic, they include autobiographical elements that engender searching and a coming to terms with loss, exile and survival in narratives that question the effects of memory in relationships and identity.Nina, Lichtenstein B.: - Nina Lichtenstein is a native of Oslo, Norway, and has studied in Norway, France, Israel and the U.S. She holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Connecticut, and is pursuing her MFA in creative writing at University of Southern Maine. Her research and publications focus on Jewish identity, and specifically Jewish literature and culture concerning Jews with origins from North Africa and the Middle East, and her creative writing is mostly nonfiction, but she is also working on a novel set in Norway during the Second World War.