In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed… Primo Levi, The Periodic Table
Aron Rodrigue, University of Washington Press, 1993 The Alliance Israelite Universelle, an organization founded in Paris in 1860, established a vast network of schools in Sephardi and Eastern Jewish communities in Muslim lands stretching from Morocco in the west to…
Mordehay Arbell, John Carter Brown Library, 1999 "The first attempt by anyone to create a comprehensive bibliography of the existing literature concerning the Jews in the Caribbean and the Guianas, including publications relating to the little-known Jewish agricultural community in…
Robert Chira, Rivercross Publishing Inc., 2002 The author continues his investigation of the immigration of Jews from Aleppo, Syria, with stories of how some of the members of the Dweek and Chira families arrived in the United States, and how…
Victor Perera, University of a California Press, 1996 Tracing the dramatic lives, through 500 years, of the old and distinguished Sephardic Jewish family from whom he is descended, Perera brilliantly recreates the history not only of his own people but…
Yeshiva University Museum, 1992 Monumental catalog on the historical, spiritual, intellectual and material-cultural aspects of Sephardic Jewry. Introduction by Sylvia A. Herskowitz. Seven essays, including “The Majesty of Minhag: The Sanctity of Custom in Spanish and Portuguese Synagogues” (Solomon Gaon), “Manuscripts…
Michel Emile Bensadon, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013 This memoir of coming of age in Morocco in the 1950s is also the memoir of a lost nation. The author's childhood coincides with the end of the idyllic Sephardic culture that…
Sara Y. Aharon, Decalogue Books, 2011 This engaging, innovative book brings to life the history of Afghan Jewry—from its earliest roots to the 21st century. Spanning from the community’s origins—which many Afghan Jews trace to biblical times—to the development of…
Edited by Moshe Lazar, Labyrinthos Publishing, 1999 The first comprehensive reader of Ladino literature, covering a wide range of texts from the 15th to the early decades of the 20th century, most of them originally written or printed in Ladino…
Yosef Hayim. YERUSHALMI, 1971 This is a pioneering study that traces the remarkable career of the seventeenth-century Marrano physician and Jewish apologist, Isaac Cardoso. Born in Portugal in 1604, Cardoso was raised and educated in Spain, where he lived for…
Houman M. Sarshar, I.B. Tauris Publishing, 2014 Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country. Frequently understood as a passive minority group, and often marginalized by the Zoroastrian…
