Esra Özyürek, Stanford University Press, 2023 At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then,…
Louis Finkelstein, The Jewish theological seminary of America (New York), 1924 A comprehensive history of the constitutional activities of the European Jewish communities during the Middle Ages. Various texts, in Hebrew with English translations, describe the enactments of the different…
Edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, Palgrave Macmillian Publishing, 2008 Iraq’s Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq’s once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that…
Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, University of Illinois Press, 2001 Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women preserves the precious remnants of a rich culture on the verge of extinction while affirming women’s pivotal role in the health of…
Jeffrey S. Malka, Avotaynu Publishing, 2003 In this profusely documented work, the author explains how to trace Sephardic ancestry through archives as ancient as 12th century Spanish notarial records or as recent as today’s country repositories. Taking us on a…
Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa and Helga Anetshofer, Academic Studies Press, 2018 Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called “Pax Ottomanica.” This edited volume probes…
H. Erdem Çipa, Indiana University Press, 2017 The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I (“The Grim”) set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the empire. Conquering Eastern Anatolia, Syria,…
Joseph Chetrit, Jane S. Gerber, Drora Arussy, Lexington Books, 2023 Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in its earliest settlements and possessing deep connections and associations with…
Bernard Lewis, Princeton University Press, 1987 This landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two…
Bernard Lewis, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999 Examining religion, race and language, country, nation, and state, Lewis traces the rapid evolution of the identities of the Middle Eastern peoples, from the collapse of the centuries-old Ottoman Empire in 1918 to…