David Corcos, Cambridge University Press, 1976 The Jews of Morocco under the Marinids.—The Jews of Morocco and their mellahs.—Reflections on Judeo-North African onomastics.—Some aspects of Jewish society in old Morocco.—[The nature of the Almohad rulers' attitude toward the Jews.—The Jews…
Jacques Sardas, Thebes Press, 2017 An inspiring story of finding hope in frightening times, of exodus and determination, and of timeless questions shared among generations “When my grandson Jake was around fifteen years old, he and I decided to share…
Rodger Kamenetz, HarperOne, 2007 While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he encounters…
Bernard Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also…
Haim Zafrani, Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc., 2005 Drawing on his Jewish-Moroccan heritage and knowledge of ancient and modern Oriental languages, the late Professor Zafrani (d. 2004, emeritus, U. of Paris) traces Sephardic Jewish life and its legacy in once…
Edited and with an Introduction by Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein; Translation, Transliteration, and Glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi, Stanford University Press, 2012 This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated…
María Rosa Menocal, Little, Brown and Company Publishing, 2002 Just when we most need its memory and reassurance, Maria Rosa Menocal offers us her gift of al-Andalus. In her splendid retelling of the rise and fall of the great Muslim…
Edited by Rifat N. Bali, Libra Kitap Publishing, 2016 This work is a compilation of life stories of twenty Turkish Jews, born and raised in Turkey, and who have settled in new homelands. They now live in the United States,…
Palmira Brummett, Cambridge University Press, 2015 Simple paradigms of Muslim-Christian confrontation and the rise of Europe in the seventeenth century do not suffice to explain the ways in which European mapping envisioned the “Turks” in image and narrative. Rather, maps,…
Silvyo Ovadya, Brill Publishing, 1999 Developed in Turkish-English descriptions, this book is about the history of the Jewish costumes between 11th -18th centuries. Furthermore, there are 63 illustrations made by three famous illumination and miniature artists.