Michael Molho, Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, 2006 Traditions and Customs focuses on the rich cultural traditions and heritage of the largest Sephardic Jewish Community in the Balkans. These simple customs, though colorful and patriarchal, were…
Tobias P. Graf, Oxford University Press, 2017 The figure of the renegade – a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan – is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early…
Matt Goldish, Princeton University Press, 2008 The book looks at questions asked between 1492–when the Jews were expelled from Spain–and 1750. Originating from all over the Sephardic world, the responsa discuss such diverse topics as the rules of conduct for…
Julia Phillips Cohen, Oxford University Press, 2016 Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the imperial state reforms known…
Cengiz Sisman, Oxford University Press, 2017 The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive study on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century p to the present day. Initiated by the…
Nancy E. Berg, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025 Longing and Belonging investigates the lives of Jews among Muslims in the modern age, both inside and outside the Ottoman Empire and after its demise. Here, modern Jewish protagonists are revealed as…
S.D. Goitein, University of California Press, 2003 S. D. Goitein’s magisterial five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world offers an unparalleled view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. Living under…
Avigdor Levy, Syracuse University Press, 2002 This book focuses on central topics, such as the structure of the Jewish community, its organization and institutions and its relations with the state; the place Jews occupied in the Ottoman economy and their…
Bernard Lewis, Princeton University Press, 2014 Against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history, Bernard Lewis portrays the Judaeo-Islamic tradition – a cultural relationship parallel to the Judaeo-Christian heritage. He traces its origins in the early Middle Ages, its…
Norman Roth, Brill 1994 Jews settled in medieval Spain at least by the third century, and under the Christian Visigoths (sixth to eighth centuries) suffered increasing hostility and persecution, from which they were saved by the Muslim invasion. This book…