Previous Issues

Volume 13

Issue 3 / Summer 2023

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Living and Walking the Seam of Jerusalem
Michael Sager

Poems: Where is My Home?
Penina Meghnagi Solomon

The Albelda Family: Moses Albelda and Moses ben Jacob Albelda: Prominent, Eminent Scholars
Marvin J. Heller

Scoop: A Jew from Turkey in Quebec City (1691-1697), before Esther Brandeau
Nicolas-Samuel Baron Bernier

Leaving Mashhad and Iran : An Iranian Jew Speaks of his Family’s Experience
David Livi, interviewed by Judith Roumani

Shlomo Abramovits, ed.,
The Hidden Diary of Giado Concentration Camp by Yosef Dadush
Rishon LeZion : Miskal – Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books, 2020.

Reviewed by Rachel Simon

Dalia Kandiyoti and Rina Benmayor, editors,
Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants: Returning the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal
New York: Berghahn Books, 2023

Reviewed byJane S. Gerber

Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2022

Reviewed by Regina Igel

Judith Roumani
Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity
Lanham: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2022

Reviewed by Jessica Carr

Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editors,
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Michal Ben Ya’akov

Jessica M. Marglin
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Željka Oparnica

Ruth Behar, author, Devon Holzwarth, illustrator
Tia Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey
New York: Knopf Book for Young Readers, 2022

Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss

Basseri, Etan, author, Rashin Kheiriyeh, illustrator
A Persian Passover
Kalaniot Books, 2022

Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

 

Issues 1-2 / Winter-Spring 2023

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Solomon de Oliveyra: A Seventeenth Century Sephardic Sage
Marvin J. Heller

The Mellah of Fez, Abode of Moroccan Jews and Center of their Activities
Mohamed Chtatou

A Conversation on Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, And Modernity
Annette B. Fromm and Judith Roumani

Shanghai Breezes: The Isaac Jacob Life Narrative
Elaine Mendelow

The Passover Scarf
Judy Belsky

The Only Way Out is Through: Grandmother Rachel’s Bollywood Story
Rachel Yona-Shalev

Kortijos, erensia sefaradi
Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Dario Miccoli
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Michael Frank
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
New York: Avid Reader Press/ Simon and Schuster, 2022

Reviewed by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Michèle Sarde, translated by Rupert Swyer
Returning from Silence: Jenny’s Story
Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2022

Reviewed by Jelena Filipović

Anna Kohen
Flower of Vlora: Growing Up Jewish in Communist Albania
Netherlands: Amsterdam Publishers, 2022

Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

A Romanioti Legacy: Adam J. Goldwyn’s Rae Dalven
Reviewed by Diana Matza

Arnon Z. Shorr
Jose and The Pirate Captain Toledano
Minneapolis: KAR-BEN Publishing, 2022

Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss

 

Volume 12

Issues 2-3 / Summer-Fall 2022

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

On Albert Memmi:

Autour d’Albert Memmi, son décès, son Centenaire
Guy Dugas

Entrevue avec Albert Memmi, Décembre, 1978
Interviewed by Jacques Roumani,  transcribed by Chantal Assoulen, technical assistance by Vivienne Roumani-Denn

My Uncle: A Memoir of Postwar Hungary, Italy and Israel
Israel Rodolfo Lichtner

David M. Bunis: Problems in Judezmo Linguistics Revisited
Interviewed by Judith Roumani, transcribed by Gila (Martha) Griner

Henry Green and Richard Stursberg
Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
Vancouver, B.C., Finger 1 Publishing, Inc., 2021

Reviewed by Ruth Ohayon

Marc Eliany
Introduction by Annette B. Fromm
Jewish Folktales from Morocco: Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021

Reviewed by Ruth Ohayon

Turkey’s First Television Series with a Ladino-Speaking Jewish Protagonist
Kulüp (The Club)

Reviewed by Dr. Gökhan Çınkara and Oğul Tuna

Serena Di Nepi
Surviving the Ghetto: Toward a Social History of the Jewish Community in 16th-Century Rome
Leiden: Brill, 2020

Reviewed by Andrea Yaakov Lattes

Kerem Tınaz and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (editors)
Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Semih Gökatalay

Kathleen Alcalá
Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes
Seattle: Raven Chronicles Press, 2021. First edition 1997.

Reviewed by Judith Roumani

 

Issue 1 / Spring 2022

Editor's Note
Annette B. Fromm

Jacob Judah (Aryeh) de Leão Templo, A Converso Scholar, a Jewish Hakham
Marvin J. Heller

Interview with Mois Benarroch: from Tetuan to Jerusalem, from Sefarad to Sefarad
Interviewed by Judith Roumani, filmed by Odelia Benarroch, transcribed by Gila (Martha) Griner

I think we all have a mission
Interview with Zina Abraham
From Afghanistan to Florida

Interviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Tres cantones de Estambol: Hasköy, Balat, Kuledibi
Forti Barokas

Joseph Chetrit, Jane S. Gerber, and Drora Arussy, editors
Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021

Reviewed by Nadia Malinovich

Jacky Comforty with Martha Bloomfield
The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust
Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2021

Reviewed by Jason Hensley

Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Bloomington: Indian University Press, 2020

Reviewed by James Benjamin Nadel

Laura Arnold Leibman
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Michael T. Miller

Alexander Moissis
Davitson Effendi, A Romaniote Jewish Pasha in Ioannina
Athens: Kapon Editions; English, Greek, 2021

Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Gabriel Tamman
Exodus Too: The Story of an Egyptian Jewish Family in Extraordinary Times
London-Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell, 2021

Reviewed by Yolande Cohen

Clémence Boulouque
Another Modernitiy, Elia Benmazogh’s Jewish Universalism
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Andrea Yaakov Lattes

Myriam Moscona
Tela de Sevoya
Barcelona: Acantilado, 2014

Reviewed by Regina Igel

Alain Elkann
Una Giornata
Milano: Bompiani, (in Italian), 2020

Reviewed by K.E. Bättig von Wittelsbach

Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Sephardi Cooking the History, Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century to Today
Brookline, Ma.: Academic Studies Press, 2021

Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

 

Volume 11

Issue 4 / Fall 2021

Editor's Note
Annette B. Fromm

Moses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika
Marvin J. Heller

Song in my Heart, A Memoir of Days Spent with Moshe Ha Elion, a Survivor of the Shoah
Judith Lin

Sephardic Horizons in the Context of Electronic Publishing
Judith Roumani

Revista, Dina Danon, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press: 2020.
Rachel Amado Bortnick

Francesca Trivellato, The Promise and the Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us About the Making of European Commercial Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Jane Gerber

Leon Saltiel. The Holocaust in Thessaloniki, Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution: 1942–1943. London: Routledge, 2020.
Reviewed by Steven Bowman

Leah Davcheva. Kaleidoscope of Identities. Tales of Ladino by Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria.  Sofia: Riva Publication, 2021 (in Bulgarian).
Reviewed by Zdravka Mihaylova

Jonathan Schorsch, Andrée Aelion Brooks, and Ruth K. Abrahams. The Remarkable Life of Luis Moses Gomez. Coxsackie: Flint Mine Press, 2021.
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss

Stanley Mirvis. Jamaican Jewry: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Michael Rom

Yael Halevi-Wise. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua. Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA, 2021.
Reviewed by Phillip Hollander

Orit Abuhav, Yoram Bilu, and Hagar Salamon (editors). The Jews of Libya and Their Environment: the Ethno-Historical Studies of Harvey Goldberg. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2020 (in Hebrew).
Reviewed by Rachel Simon

Jonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman (editors). The Albert Memmi Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Alain Nedjar, Gilles Boulu, Liliane Nedjar and Raphaël Attias. Registres de Ketubbot de la Nation Juive de Livourne (1626-1890). Paris: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, 2020.
Reviewed by Bernard Cooperman

Laura Arnold Leibman. The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2020.
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Sarit Yishai-Levi. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem: A Novel. 2013. Trans. Anthony Berris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Reviewed by Beth Dwoskin

Issues 2-3 / Spring - Summer 2021

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Muslims Listen in the Synagogue: An Intercommunal Reading of the Ten Commandments on Shavuot
Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg

Italian Fascism and its Treatment of Jews in Libya during World War II: The Expulsion of Libyan Jews to Tunisia and the Bombardment of La Marsa
Maurice M. Roumani

The Jews of Cyrenaica during World War II, in their Own Words
Vivienne Roumani-Denn

Indemnification for Libyan Jews after 1943: A Special Case?
Jens Hoppe

When the Waters of the Mediterranean Parted: Jewish Libya and the Trajectory of Escape
Danielle Willard-Kyle

Un Otro Ermano
A play by Jane Mushabac and Leah Varsano

Revision de Una ijika chika de Galata (2019) de Coya Delevi
Rachel Amado Bortnick

Yolande Cohen, Sépharades du Québec: Parcours d’exils nord-africains, Montreal: Del Busso Editeur, 2017.
Reviewed by Ira Robinson

Donatella Di Cesare, Marranos: The Other of the Other, New York: Politybooks, 2020.
Reviewed by Ignat Ayzenberg

Jane Gerber, Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History,  Liverpool & London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2020.
Reviewed by Carsten Schapkow

Dalia Kandiyoti, The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Jane Gerber

Tobie Nathan, trans. Joyce Zonana, A Land Like You, London & Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2020.
Reviewed by Aimée Israel-Pelletier

Deborah Starr, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Timothy Riggio Quevillon

Devi Mays. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Judith Roumani. Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust: Ambiguous Refuge. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2021.
Reviewed by Kora von Wittelsbach

Mónica Manrique, translated from Spanish by Justin Peterson.The Project of Return to Sepharad in the Nineteenth Century  Brookline, Mass: Academic Studies Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Regina Igel

 

Issue 1 / Winter 2021

Editors' Note
Judith Roumani and Annette B. Fromm

A Fleeting Moment, A Short-lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth Century Fez
Marvin J. Heller

“Land and Sea” (Short story)
Julie Rosenzweig

Uriah Levy: The Sephardic Jewish Navy Commodore Who Saved Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Marc Leepson

The Caribbean Sephardim in the Ḥaluqah System: From Jerusalem to the West Indies and Back
Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota

Ladino i Yo
Karel Valansi

La Komunidad Sefaradia de Izmir, Entonses i Agora
Rachel Amado Bortnick

Henriette Asséo, Annie Bellaïche Cohen, Muriel Flicoteaux, Corry Guttstadt, Xavier Rothéa, Sabi Soulam, Alain de Toledo, editors, Muestros Dezaparesidos, Mémorial des Judéo-Espagnols déportés de France, 2019.
Reviewed by Albert Garih

“Through the World of Books without a Map: An Ongoing Journey: The Farhi Palace of Damascus, Syria.” Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late18th and 19th Centuries, with contributions by Ezra Ashkenazie, Jeffery Burden, George H. Lewis, Judith S. McKenzie, and Jason Montgomery. Annual of the American School of Oriental Research, Volume 72 in collaboration with Manar Al-Athar, University of Oxford, 2018.
Reviewed by Bension Varon

“The history of Iraqi Jews as told by an Iraqi Muslim Author: Review and Commentary.” Nabil Abd al-Amir al-Rubei’i Lamahat min Tarikh yehud al-Iraq (Glances from the History of the Jews of Iraq-- 859 BC-1973). 2 Vols. Hilla, Iraq: Dar al-Furat Le-thaqafa 2016.
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Schaposchnik, Ana E., The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in 17th-Century Peru. University of Wisconsin Press: 2017.
Reviewed by Karem Lissette Delgado

Angelina Muniz Huberman. Los esperandos: Piratas judeoportugueses . . . y yo. 2020.
Reviewed by Sandra M. Cypess

 

Volume 10

Issues 3-4 / Summer - Fall 2020

Editor's Note
Annette B. Fromm

Italy’s Role in the Holocaust of Greek Jews 
Paul Hagouel 

Being Sephardic, or Just Jewish?
Reframing The Study of Contemporary Ethno-Local Jewish Dimensions in Greece

Maria Sidiropoulou

‘We are a strict, iron group’: From Salonika to Warsaw via Auschwitz
Stefania Zezza

The Evolution of Greek Jewry in Changing Empires 1821-1921
Yitzchak Kerem

Review Essay: The Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece,
Recent and Not So Recent Publications

Annette B. Fromm

Judyos dispersados en el mundo
Sharope Blanco

Devin Naar. Jewish Salonica, Stanford University Press, 2016.
Reviewed by Dani Kranz

Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Family Papers, A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Reviewed by Jess Olson

Jako el Muzikante. Audio CD and Other Materials, Mapamundimusica, 2019.
Reviewed by Leonard Stein

Isaac Jack Lévy. The Sephardim in the Holocaust, University of Alabama Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Dov Schwartz (Author), Batya Stein (Translator). The Many Faces of Maimonides,
Academic Studies Press: 2018.

Reviewed by Carsten Schliwski

Francesca Bregoli, Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, Guri Schwarz, eds. Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century: Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Reviewed by Jane Gerber

Hernán Rodriguez Fisse, Sefardies en el exilio, Ediciones Zéjel, 2019.
Reviewed by Regina Igel

Lyn Julius, Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish History in the Arab World Vanished Overnight, Vallentine Mitchell, 2018.
Reviewed by Nina Lichtenstein

Gail Carson Levine, A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, HarperCollins, 2020.
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss

Daniela Weil, The Diary of Asser Levy, First Jewish Citizen of New York, Pelican Publishing: 2020.
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss

Exhibition Review: The Forgotten Exodus – An American Refuge.
University of Miami Gallery, Wynwood Building, Miami, Florida, 2020.

Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Issue 2 / Spring 2020

Editor's Note
By Judith Roumani

The Pleasures of Teaching Ladino
By Gloria Ascher

In Her Own Words
Micaela (Michele) Amato Amateau

Tales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown: Jewish Folktales from Morocco
Marc Eliany

Resenya: Se réinventer au présent: Les Judéo-espagnols de France: Famille, communauté et patrimoine musical
de Jessica Roda

Carlos Yebra López

Kaminos de Sefarad: Red de Djuderias de Espanya
Liliana Benveniste

A Poem. “No les perdones,” with the original French version
Sharope Blanco

Cara Judea Alhadeff. Illustrated by Micaela Amato Amateau. Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle: A cautionary fable for the Anthropocene Era by (Lemont, PA: Eifrig Publishing, 2017)
Reviewed by Sajay Samuel

Three about Flory: A children’s book and two films. The Key from Spain (2019); The Key from Spain , directed by Ankica Petrović and Mischa Livingstone (2002); and Flory’s Flame, directed by Curt Fissel, Jemglo (2014)
Reviewed by Judith Cohen

Ilan Stavans. Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Reviewed by Sandra M. Cypess

Film Reviews. The Final Hour, directed by Çağlar Mallı (2019) and The Jewish Experience, From Basavilaso to New Amsterdam, directed by Miguel Kohan (2019)
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Vitalis Danon. Lia Brozgal and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds., Jane Kuntz trans. Ninette of Sin Street. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issue 1 / Winter 2020

Editor's Note

Habib Gerez: Humanist, Artist and Poet
By Isaac Jack Lévy

A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir
By Rabbi Marc D. Angel

Doer and Dreamer: An Interview with Raffaello Fellah (Tripoli 1935—Rome 2008)
By Harvey E. Goldberg

Guadalajara: A Fifteenth Century Hebrew Press of Distinction
By Marvin J. Heller

Mis Dos Papus: Dos Senyores Djudios-Otomanos en Epoka de Transformasion 
De Rachel Amado Bortnick

Ke Bivas fina los Sien i Vente: Vidas Largas i kon Sentido
By Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Konferensia en Londra sovre el Avenir Dijital del Ladino
By Carlos Yebra López

Sokol, L. & Biniashvili, M. The Spanish Plot.  New York: The Judaica Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss

Sefarad: A film on Amazon Prime. Dir. Luís Ismael. Portugal, 2019.
Reviewed by Vivienne Roumani-Denn

Fernando José Pancorbo. Joseph Penso de Vega: La creación de un perfil cultural y literario entre Ámsterdam y Livorno. Florence: Olschki, 2019.
Reviewed by David Navarro

Duccio Filippi, ed. Per una storia della Comunità ebraica di Livorno. Contributo bibliografico (1706-2019). In Nuovi Studi Livornesi XXV (1-2). Livorno: Media Print, 2019.
Reviewed by David Navarro

Sarah Reguer. The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Reviewed by Andrée Aelion Brooks

Ruth Wisse. “Ruth Wisse teaches Daniel Deronda,”  a series of eight recorded lectures on the 1876 novel by George Eliot, produced by the Tikvah Fund, 2019.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Paloma Díaz-Mas. Mujeres sefardíes lectoras y escritoras, siglos XIX-XXI. Edited by Paloma Díaz-Mas and Elisa Martín Ortega. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2016.
Reviewed by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

Volume 9

Issue 4 / Fall 2019

Editors' Note
By Judith Roumani and Annette B. Fromm

Sephardim among the Pioneers of the (American) West
By Andrée Aelion Brooks

Out of Egypt, A Personal Memoir
By Rabbi Albert Gabbai

Interview with David Serero, Sephardic Opera Singer and Director.
Interviewed by Judith Roumani

Cuba i Los Sefaradis
By Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

So Su Bis Inyeta
By Sharope Blanco

Victor Sasson. Shylock of Venice, A Verse Play in Three Acts. Bloomington: iUniverse, Inc., 2012.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Genie Milgrom. My Fifteen Grandmothers and Pyre to Fire. CreateSpace Publishing, 2012 & 2018.
Reviewed by Seth Kunin

Aimée Israel-Pelletier. On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issue 3 / Summer 2019

Editors' Note
by Yael Halevi-Wise and Judith Roumani 

‘Sephardim in the City’ group of literary studies, guest editors Jane Mushabac and Yael Halevi-Wise:
1. Gloria Ascher. The Sephardic Sense of Place(s) in Shalach Manot’s His Hundred Years.
2. Teresa M. Vilarós. A Non-Place After Destruction: Salvador Espriu’s Key to Salom, Sinera, and Sepharad.
3. Ruth Malka. From the Orient to the West: Shaping Sephardic Identity in Albert Cohen’s Novels.

Book Talk
By Gila Green

Jerusalem: Elevo de su Universidad
By Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Gila Green. White Zion. West Sommerville, MA: Cervena Barva Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Susan Weintrob

Anne Dublin. A Cage without Bars. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2018.
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Matti Friedman. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2019. 
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Samir Naqqash. Tenants and Cobwebs. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Albert Memmi. Ed. Guy Dugas. Journal de Guerre 1939-1943. Paris: CNRS, 2019.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. The Holocaust and North Africa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Reviewed by Lucia Admiraal

Issues 1-2 / Winter - Spring 2019

Editor’s Note
by Judith Roumani and Annette B. Fromm

Silas’s Folly: The Beth Aharon Synagogue in Shanghai and How it Saved the Mirrer Yeshiva
By Vera Schwarcz

Belvedere and Kuru Tsheshme: Sephardic Printing in Late Sixteenth Century Constantinople  
By Marvin J. Heller

From Recife to New York: Dinner with Today’s Conversos of Brazil 
By Vivienne Roumani-Denn

Interview with Arie Toledano, Chairman and Founder of Zera Israel Foundation, Geneva, on Outreach to the Anousim
Email Interview by Judith Roumani

Mirar el kafe. meldar el futuro
By Rivka Abiry z"l

Analiz de Livro, Prefiero Chile, de Hernan Rodriguez Fisse
By Rachel Amado Bortnick

Margalit Bejarano, Yaron Harel, Marta F. Topel, and Margalit Yosifon, editors. Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America: Historical, Cultural and Literary Perspectives. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017.
Reviewed by Regina Igel

Lucienne Carasso. Growing Up Jewish in Alexandria Egypt. Scotts Valley, CA.: CreateSpace, 2014.
Reviewed by Andre Douek

Naim A. Güleryüz . Tarih Boyunca Trakya ve Anadolu’da Yahudi Yerleşim Yerleri (Areas of Jewish Settlement in Thrace and Anatolia throughout History).Vol. I – Istanbul; Vol. II – Thrace and Anatolia. Istanbul: Gözlem Publisher, 2018.
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Serena Roffe. Branching out from Sepharad. New York: Sephardic Heritage Project, 2017.
Reviewed by Rabbi Haim Ovadia

Volume 8

Issues 3-4 / Summer - Fall 2018

Editor’s Note
by Judith Roumani

Alberto Sarfati, The Painter
By Isaac Jack Levy, with photos by Rosemary Zumwalt

Taken from a Distant Country: The Girls from Salonika in Ravensbrück
By Stefania Zezza

Sicily, Land of Absences: An Interview with Evelyne Aouate of Palermo on Jews, Bnei Anusim and their descendants in Western Sicily
By Judith Roumani

Susan Kikoler on Sicilian Jews Prior to and after 1492
Interviewed by Judith Roumani

Cooking for Others: Fancy and Plain
By Alan Mintz

The Role of Sephardic Women in Life Cycle and Festival Events
By Annette Fromm

La Boz de las Linguas
By Rivka Abiry

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides We Are in Exile, Estamos En Galut: A Novel. (Hadassa Word Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Annette Fromm

Solika: A Play performed at the Jerusalem Theater
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issues 1-2 / Winter - Spring 2018

Guest Editor’s Note
Ralph Tarica

Sephardic or Mizrahi? 
Rabbi Haim Ovadia

Between Islam and Judaism: A Moroccan Journey
By an Admirer of Sephardic Culture

Ladino Revival in the U.S.A.: A Meeting between “Las Vijitas de Alhad” and “Ladinokomunita”
Paola Bolasny

Greek Jewish Festival in New York City
Judith Roumani   

La Navaja
Rivka Abiry

La Historia de la Almoronía de Kippur
Alicia Sisso Raz

Jacques Roumani, David, Meghnagi, Judith Roumani, eds. Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and Image. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018
Reviewed by Lucette Lagnado

Aἲda Pinto. Mon Passe Marocain. Jerusalem: Abraham Albert Cohen - Editions Erez, 2004 Pinto, Abraham, et al. The Life of Moyses and Abraham Pinto in the Amazon Jungle (1879-1893) As Told in 1945 by Abraham Pinto. Jerusalem: Abraham Cohen - Erez Publishing, 2017
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Volume 7

Issues 3-4 / Summer - Fall 2017

Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

The Book World in Ottoman and Modern Turkey: The Pioneer Jews
Bension Varon

Italy’s Cabinet of Shame Revealed: One Case of Frustrated Justice
Judith Roumani

In Search of the Sephardic Family Name Turiel/Touriel/Tourial
Ralph Tarica

Space, Subjectivity, Symbolism,: A Report from the Conference “Jews in Muslim Societies,” October 2017
Katharine Halls

Entrevista Kon Jessamine Irvin sobre la Solisitad de Sivdadania Espanyola
Carlos Yebra López

Lesyones Ke Devemos Aplikar En La Vida
Haim Vitali Sadacca

Piano
Rivka Abiry

David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Zvi Keren, Studies of Jewish Life in Bulgaria
Reviewed by Steven Sage

Claudette Sutton, Farewell Aleppo: My Father, My People, and their Long Journey Home
Reviewed by Yaëlle Azagury

Film directed and produced by Larry Confino and Larry Russo: Trezoros
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Jacques Sardas, Without Return: Memoirs of an Egyptian Jew 1930-1957
Reviewed by Aimée Israel-Pelletier

Nina Lichtenstein, Sephardic Women Writers: Out of North Africa
Reviewed by Youness Abeddour

Issues 1-2 / Winter - Spring 2017

Guest Editor’s Note
Ralph Tarica

Jacques Roumani z"l: In Memoriam
Maurice M. Roumani

Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and Image
by Jacques Roumani, David Meghnagi, Judith Roumani
(Book preview) Preface
David Meghnagi
Introduction and Overview
Jacques Roumani
Contents

Tirant lo Blanch (Valencia, 1490):
A 15th century literary rehearsal for a historical confrontation with the non-Christian world

David A. Wacks

"...a una destinasion desconosida -- A true story"
Yehuda Hatsvi

Jane Mushabac. "The Phenomenon of Rivka Abiry," review of Una lagrima, una riza, lo ke mos konta Rivka

Albert Memmi, The Desert: Or, The Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi
Reviewed by Ewa Tartakowsky

Monique Balbuena, Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Peter Adam Nash. The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Bension Varon, Gifts of Language. Multilingualism and Turkish-Sephardic Culture
Reviewed by David Navarro

Volume 6

Issues 3-4 / Summer - Fall 2016

Guest Editor’s Note
Jane Mushabac

Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

‘She would rather be a Gaon than a Gaul’: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff’s Affirmation of Arab Jewish Identity in Jacob’s Ladder
Joyce Zonana

The Multiple Risks that A.B. Yehoshua Takes in his Novel Mr. Mani
Judith Roumani

Albert Memmi’s Unheard Sense and Sensitivity: Risks toward an Ethos of Integrity
Marquesa Macadar

Code-Switching and Immigrant Identity in Rosa Nissán’s Hisho que te nazca
Rey Romero

‘A man who has no shoes is a fool’ (Primo Levi): The Salonikan Jews in the Concentration Camps
Stefania Zezza

Spain’s Correction of her ‘Historical Mistake and Injustice’: Spanish Citizenship for the ‘Sefardies’: An Assessment
Doğan Akman

Djoha ke se vido kon tavan boyali
Rivka Abiry

Poesias para el enverano
Haim Vitali Sadacca

Espondjar, Chaftear, Fregar
Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Sabbatai Tzevi Revisited: Two Books About The False Messiah
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Ewa Tartakowsky, Les Juifs et le Maghreb: Fonctions sociales d’une littérature d’exil. Paris: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2016
Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Issue 2 - Spring 2016

Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

The Future of the Past: Judeo-Spanish in the Twenty-First Century
Bension Varon

Mizrahi Jewish novelists and the End of Jewish Life in the Middle East: Echoes of Voices
Judith Roumani

Between Sophia Loren and 'Little Tony' - The Leisure Life of the Jews of Tripoli, Libya in the Fifties and Sixties
Eyal David

El Musafir
Rivka Abiry

Konsierje Asesino
Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Poesias
Haim Vitali Sadacca

Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492 by David Wacks 
Reviewed by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

His Hundred Years:  A Tale by Shalach Manot 
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issue 1 - Winter 2016

Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

Reading Letters from the Past: Translating for Historical Research in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
Katharine Halls

Stories, Food and Place: Following a Sephardic Family to a New Home
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Libyan Jewish Art of the Holocaust: Collages
Nava Barazani

Sipping Moroccan Memories: Poems and iPad Art
Michal Mahgerefteh

Ven Bailar kon el Internet
Rivka Abiry

Torres Buchakas Patladeadas
Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Poesias Muevas
Haim Vitali Sadacca

La Odisea Trezladada en Ladino i Ebreo del Grego Antiguo por Moshe ‘Ha-Elion i Avner Perez (in two volumes)
by Moshe Ha-Elion and Avner Perez

Reviewed by Bension Varon

Intrigue and Revolution: Chief Rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad, and Damascus 1744-1914 by Yaron Harel
Reviewed by Rabbi Haim Ovadia

Volume 5

Issues 3-4 - Fall 2015

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Extract from Tunisian Journal, 1955-56, "Journal d'un retour au pays natal"
Albert Memmi

Quelques compléments à propos de l'écriture colorée chez Albert Memmi
Guy Dugas

Un genre faux ou un faux genre? Novels Taken for Autobiography
Lia Brozgal

Albert Memmi, passeur de mondes
Edmond Jouve

The End of Colonialism in Novels by Albert Memmi and Kateb Yacine
Judith Roumani

Sivdades a la fin del mundo
Hernán Rodriguez Fisse

La Dama en fostan colorado
Rivka Abiry

Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds. Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. [Stanford: Stanford UP, 2014]
Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Lia Nicole Brozgal. Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory. [Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2013]
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Sarah Stroumsa. Maimonides in His World: A Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker. [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.]
Reviewed by Marc Herman

"Synagonistis: Greek Jews in the National Resistance." [Review of an Exhibit held April 1, 2015 - May 26, 2015, Washington Hebrew Congregation, Washington DC]
Reviewed by Rosine Nussenblatt

Vera Paggi. Vicolo degli Azzimi. Dal ghetto di Pitigliano al miracolo economico. [Panozzo Editore, 2013]
Reviewed by Mark Lazerson

Ilko Minev. As Flowers Go [São Paolo: Livros de Safra, 2014]
Reviewed by Steven F. Sage

Issues 1-2 - Spring/Summer 2015

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Interview with Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome
Jacques Roumani, translated by Judith Roumani

Pure Blood Statues in Sixteenth Century Toledo: Implementation as Opposed to Adoption
Linda Martz

The Sephardic Drinking Song, "I give my life for a taste of raki"
Eugene Normand and Albert S. Maimon

The Tortoise, a poem
Elisabetta Cabbibe Paggi

Una Manzana Alesha el Mediko
Rivka Abiry

Chile, Jeografia Atavanada
Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

La Lettre sépharade
Jean Carasso

The Jews of Karnobat by Zvi Keren
Reviewed by Steven F. Sage

Jews in the Caribbean by Jane Gerber
Reviewed by Paulette Kershenovich Schuster

Critical Approaches to Jewish Mexican Literature/Aproximaciones críticas a la literature judeomexicana by Darrell Lockhart
Reviewed by Paulette Kershenovich Schuster

Yo Esto Reklamando! by Moshé Liba, trans. Zelda Ovadia
Reviewed by Albert Garih

Volume 4

Issue 4 - Fall 2014

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Benghazi—Bergen-Belsen: Extract from a Novel
Yossi Sucary

Inside and Outside of Gerineldo: From the Gardens of Spain and the Mountains of Morocco
Geoffrey Clarfield

Inside and Outside of Gerineldo: From the Gardens of Spain and the Mountains of Morocco
Geoffrey Clarfield

Hanukiya
Rivka Abiry

Poesias
Haim Vitali Sadacca

Conversos in the Reponsa of Sephardic and Halakhic Authorities in the Fifteenth Century by Dora Zsom
Reviewed by Andrew Apostolou

La presse judéo-espagnole, support et vecteur de la modernité [The Judeo-Spanish Press as Medium and Vehicle of Modernity] edited by Rosa Sánchez and Marie-Christine Varol
Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Giovanni Pico e la cabbalà [Giovanni Pico and the Kabbalah] by Fabrizio Lelli
Reviewed by David Navarro

Issue 3 - Summer 2014

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

From East to Farther East: The Jewish Experience in Kaifeng, China
Tiberiu Weisz

Medieval Iberian Literary Studies in the United States
David Wacks

International Institute for Secret Jews (Anusim), Report on the Netanya Conference: The Different Perspectives of Jewish Law, the Jewish People, and the State of Israel toward the Secret Jews
Shlomo Buzaglo

The Girl whose Dress was a Parachute (Poem)
David Almaleck Wolinsky

La Siya de Charley
Rivka Abiry

Dos Poesias Muevas
Haim Sadacca

Prevenciones divinas contra la vana idolatría de las gentes, vol. 1 By Isaac Orobio de Castro
Reviewed by Matthew Warshawsky

The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China By Fook-Kong Wong, Dalia Yasharpour
Reviewed by Tiberiu Weisz

Kimberly A. Arkin. Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France
Reviewed by Chelsie May

Shiru Shir By David Meghnagi
Reviewed by Jacques Roumani

'Bsisa' celebration and performance for Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Reviewed by Judith Roumani. Photos by Vivienne Roumani-Denn

Issue 2 - Spring 2014

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

The Surname Sulam or Sullam: An Onomastic Analysis
Mathilde Tagger

From Casablanca to Carnegie Hall: The Untold Tale of North Africa's Jewish Pop Stars
Geoffrey Clarfield

The Holocaust in Sephardi/Mizrahi Literature: A Review of Some Responses in Prose
Judith Roumani

Istanbul Intrigues: Preface and "The Valet Did It"
Barry Rubin

Dos Madres, Un Nombre
Rivka Abiry

Dos Poesias
Haim Vitali Sadacca

Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas By Edna Aizenberg and Margalit Bejarano
Reviewed by Regina Igel

How To Live, or, A Life of Montaigne: One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer By Sarah Bakewell
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Life after Baghdad By Sasson Somekh
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Issue 1 - Winter 2014

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

Where is the Sephardism in A. B. Yehoshua's Hesed Sefaradi/The Retrospective?
Yael Halevi-Wise

Five Recommendations to Historians from a History Lover
A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Yael Halevi-Wise and Vas Gogas

Cultural Exchange in the Literatures and Languages of Medieval Iberia
David Wacks

El Timbre
Rivka Abiry

La Batalia en Hirbet-el-Buredj
Yehuda Hatsvi

A Mystical Journey by Angelina Muñiz Huberman
Reviewed by David Navarro

An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty by Renee Levine Melammed
Reviewed by Judith R. Cohen

Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song by Maureen Jackson
Reviewed by Judith R. Cohen

Turkey, the Jews and the Holocaust by Corry Guttstadt
Reviewed by Harold Rhode

A Baghdad Chronicle by Reuben Levi
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Volume 3

Issue 3- Fall 2013

Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

L’Oeuvre de ma vie: Reflections on an Algerian childhood
René Karsenti

Arbres de vie (extract)
Albert Karsenti

The Surname Sasportas: An Onomastical Analysis
Mathilde Tagger

The History of the Jews of Salonika and the Holocaust
Paul Hagouel

Two Poems
Haim Vitali Sadacca

La Roza
Rivka Abiry

Voyage to Constantinople. The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Rare Book and the Pioneering Spanish Diplomatic Mission that Inspired It. An Illustrated Monograph By Bension Varon.
Reviewed by David Navarro

Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History By Aviva Ben-Ur
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Film Review: El Secreto de Don Quixote:Un código oculto y un mensaje secreto en la gran obra de Cervantes
[The Secret of Don Quixote: A hidden code in the novel of Cervantes] By Dominique Aubier

Reviewed by Vivienne Roumani-Denn

Film Review: Besa: The Promise. Directed by Rachel Goslins.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issue 2 - Summer 2013

Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

Jew, Turk, Frenchman, American: Sephardic Identities in Alfred Ascher’s Judeo-Spanish Diario
Gloria Ascher

Seven Songs, Seven Identities: Bridging the Past and the Future
Jane Mushabac

North Africa, France, and Israel: Sephardic Identities in the Work of Chochana Boukhobza
Nina B. Lichtenstein

A Plurality of Bridges: The Sephardic Scholar as Literary Archeologist
Judith Roumani

Las Gainas
Rivka Abiry

Porké no? (Poezia)
Matilda Koen Sarano

Dancing in the Shadows: A Sephardic Memoir By Marvin M. Cohen
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958
By Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

Reviewed by Jacques Roumani

Issue 1 - Winter/Spring 2013

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

A Scholarly Blind Spot: The Term 'marrano'
Dogan Davit Akman

Wine and Poetry: The Young Yehuda Halevi
Hillel Halkin

Interview with Israeli Novelist A. B. Yehoshua on his New Novel, The Retrospective
Judith Roumani

Shoa deskonosida
Rachel Amado Bortnick

El Viaje del Taksi (translation)
Rivka Abiry

Haim Vidal Sephiha, A Poem
translated by Matilda Koen-Sarano

Elko Hazan, et al., trans. Julian Hazan. The Concise Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities and their Synagogues in Bulgaria. Sofia: Kamea Design, 2012.  
Reviewed by Steven Sage.

Film Review, Turkish Passport (2011).
Reviewed by Corry Gutstadt.

Doreen Carvajal, The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition. New York: Riverhead Books, 2012.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Volume 2

Issue 4 - Fall 2012

Editor’s Note by Judith Roumani

From Pitigliano to Tripoli via Livorno: The Educational Odyssey of Giannetto Paggi
Ariel Paggi and Judith Roumani

The Judeo-Livornese (Bagitto) Dialect
Gabriele Bedarida

Growing up Jewish in Benghazi, Libya: Interview with Samuele Zarrugh
Jacques Roumani

Doña Gracia Nasi and her Significance for Jewish History
Andrée Aelion Brooks

Un Diya de los Diyas
Haim-Vidal Sephiha

Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. Newhaven.Yale University Press.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Isaac Benatar, Rhodes and the Holocaust: The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2010.
Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Sephardim in Italy: Two New Publications
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Doña Gracia Nasi Mendes: A Short Video
Reviewed by Shoshana Segal

Robert  S. C. Gordon, The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Reviewed by Jacques Roumani

Issue 3 - Summer 2012

Editor’s Note by Judith Roumani and Eulogy for Rifat Barokas by Ben Barokas

Joseph Levy’s Travel Diary, 1919
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer

The Origins of the Name Aseo
Mathilde Tagger and Dogan Akman

Grave Matters: Childhood, Identity, and Converso Funerary Art in Colonial America
Laura Leibman and Suzanna Greenblatt

The Story of Ladino: From Roots to Branches
Judith Roumani

“Zakynthos, Gresia” translated by Rivka Abiry
Leora Goldberg

Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Edited and with an Introduction by Yael Halevi-Wise
Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Sandra Shwayder Sánchez, The Secret of a Long Journey
Reviewed by Regina Igel

The Fire Within: A documentary film by Lorry Salcedo Mitrani
Reviewed by Vivienne Roumani-Denn

"DeLeon” Concert, May 17, 2012, JCC Auditorium, Rockville Md.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issue 2 - Spring 2012

Editor's Note

New Finds on Greek Jewish Heroism in the Holocaust
Yitzchak Kerem

The Ladino Poetry of Hezkia Shemuel Tarica
Ralph Tarica

Arabic as a Jewish Language, Part III: The Beginning and End of Judeo-Arabic
Sasson Somekh

The Taranto-Capouya-Crespin Family History: A Microcosm of Sephardic History
Part III: More on the Taranto, Capouya and Crespin Families

Leon Taranto

Un Tresoro de los Djidyos: Los Pirke Avot
Santos Mayo

La Ora del Avuelo
Rivka Abiry

Teófilo Ruíz, “The Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire,” audio course.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

A’Levi, Sa’adi ben Betsalel.  A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi.
Edited and with an introduction by Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein;
translation, transliteration and glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi.

Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Issue 1 - Winter 2012

Editor's Note

The Taranto-Capouya-Crespin Family History:
A Microcosm of Sephardic History: Part II, The Capouya-Crespin-Bonomo Families

Leon Taranto

Arabic as a Jewish Language: Part II, The Judeo-Arabic of the Cairo Geniza
Sasson Somekh

Out of Smyrna
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer

Silent Exodus and Forgotten Voices: Sephardic Women Writers in Postcolonial Discourse
Nina Lichtenstein

A Poem, Claiming Angels
Ronda Angel Arking

“Tanto Va el Kantariko”
Rivka Abiry

Sasson Somekh and Deborah Starr, eds., Mongrels or Marvels:
The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohat Kahanoff

Reviewed by Yael Halevi-Wise

Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Reviewed by Albert Garih

Volume 1

Issue 4 - Summer/Fall 2011

Editor's Note

Essay: "Living Between Question Marks” and Four Poems
Ruth Knafo Setton

Interview with Flory Jagoda (Part II)
Rosine Nussenblatt

Arabic as a Jewish Language: Medieval and Modern (Part I of III)
Sasson Somekh

Interview with Sasson Somekh: A Sephardic Jew’s Engagement with Arabic Language and Literature
Judith Roumani and Jacques Roumani

Traces of Sepharad: An Introduction with an etching, “Si neviim no somos, de neviim venimos”
Marc Shenkar

The Taranto-Capouya-Crespin Family History: A Microcosm of Sephardic History
Part 1: The Taranto Family (Part I of III)

Leon Taranto

Komo deskuvri  la sinagoga de Coria
Jacques Cory

Pasha: Pensamientos de David Aroughetti
Shalach Manot

The Chaste Wife [La muz’er onesta provada por su marido]
by Elia R. Karmona, translated and introduced by Michael Alpert

Reviewed by Ralph Tarica

Two New Books on the Cairo Geniza by Peter Cole/Adina Hoffman and Mark Glickman:
What I Learned and What I Wish I Learned

Reviewed by Bension Varon

Three Books on ‘Converso’ Sephardim by Fuat Andic, Gloria Golden, and Yirmiyahu Yovel
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Issue 3 - Spring 2011

Editor's Note

Models of Sephardic Rabbinic Leadership
Rabbi Marc D. Angel

An Albert Memmi Anthology: Essay, Poems, and an Interview with Albert Memmi by Dov Maimon
Translated by Ralph Tarica

Two Tunisian Jewish Novelists: Claude Kayat and Marco Koskas
Interviewed by Judith Roumani

Sephardi Literati in Early Colonial Brazil: A Bitter Taste in the Sugar Plantations
Regina Igel

A Second Sephardic Golden Age:
Economic Role of Iberian Jewry in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire

David Domínguez-Navarro

La Validja
Rivka Abiry

The Agony of Greek Jews by Steven Bowman
Reviewed by Rosine Nussenblatt

Issue 2 - Winter 2011

Editor's Note

Interview with Israeli Novelist A.B. Yehoshua on his New Novel Hesed Sefaradi [Spanish Kindness]
Judith Roumani

Interview with Flory Jagoda, Part I
Rosine Nussenblatt

In Search of the Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Finding the Courtyard of the Finzi-Magrinis
Judith Roumani

Kalsados [Shoes]
Rivka Abiry

Toledo: El Secreto Oculto, directed by Jack Matitiahu, DVD
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Boda: Kantigas de Novia, by the Ensemble Saltiel, CD with booklet material by Judith Cohen
Reviewed by Fuat Andic

Issue 1 - Fall 2010

Editor's Note

Purim and its Relatives in Tripoli: A Comparative Perspective on the Social Uses of Biblical Stories
Harvey Goldberg

In Search of the Family NameTarica: A Genealogical Adventure
Ralph Tarica 

Mexican and Jewish Identity in Herejía, Sabina Berman’s Play on Luis de Carbajal and the Inquisition
Sandra M. Cypess

Multiculturalism versus Assimilation: Memoirs of a Sephardic Turk. 
Bension Varon

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
Reviewed by Robert Nussenblatt

Friendly Fire By A. B. Yehoshua
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

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