Stanford J. Shaw, NYU Press, October 1991 Over the course of the last 600 years, the existence of the Jews of western Europe was continually threatened. While many took refuge in the Eastern regions of Europe, particularly in Poland and…
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,…
Bartle Bull, Grove Press, 2024 Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time…
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…