Previous Issues
Volume 14
Issue 2 / Spring 2024
Editor's Note
Annette B. FrommEleanor Roosevelt and the Immigration of Moroccan Jews to Israel
John SearsJacob (Israel) ben Samuel Hagiz: Scion of a Family of Prominent Sephardic Sages
Marvin J. HellerThe Musical Poetry of Three Nineteenth Century Sephardic Women
Leonard SteinMy Mother’s Tongue: Delving into the Sephardic Archive
Nancy Saporta SternbachEl Diario de Alfred Ascher se izo livro!
Gloria J. AscherPoezias de Asher Amado
Marso 2024Primer Golpe de la Aliya
Niso GuvenishLa Maymona
Aaron ShapiroLia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, Editors
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean:
A Collection of Stories Curated by Leila Sebbar
Oakland: University of California Press, 2023
Reviewed by Ruth OhayonAlan Verskin
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah:
The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni
Through Africa, The Middle East, and Europe
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Mark VermanRami Kimchi
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Jessica CarrMichele Sarfatti
I Confini di una Persecuzione,
Il Fascismo e Gli Ebrei Fuori d’Italia (1938-1943)
Roma: Viella, 2023
Reviewed by Andrea Yaakov LattesAnthony Gad Bigio
A Sephardi Jewish Patriot:
Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and
the Turkish Republic
London: Hamilton Books, 2024
Reviewed by Rachel Amado BortnickTwo Sephardic Families Found
Dr. Jeffrey S. Malka
Eight Centuries of a Sephardic Family:
The Malka Family 1282 – 2022
Vienna, Va.: Jeffrey S. Malka, 2022
&
Joe Youcha
What Kind of Past, A Balkan Sephardic Family Story
New York: Jewishgen.Inc, 2023
Reviewed by Annette B. FrommDahlia Abraham-Klein
Caravan of Hope: A Bukharan Woman’s Journey to Freedom
Great Neck, NY: Shamashi Press, 2023
Reviewed by Leora EisenbergRahel Musleah, illustrated by Louise August
Why on This Night?
A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration
Moosic, Pa., Kalaniot Books, 2024
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss
Issue 1 / Fall/Winter 2023-2024
In Lieu of Editor's Note: Ladino Romansas for Today
Rachel Amado BortnickOn Judeo-Spanish Linguistic Diversity
Rey RomeroInterview with Ruth Behar: “Her Life, Her Writing, Her Application for Spanish Citizenship”
Judith RoumaniThanksgiving: A Story
Judy BelskyInterview with Gila Green, Yemenite-Canadian-Israeli Writer
Interviewed by Judith Roumani. Transcribed by Gila GrinerDe oktobre a oktobre: 1973 a 2023
[From October to October (1973 to 2023)]
Poezias de Asher AmadoA Varsovia, Destino Crusial
Hernán Rodríguez FisseElizabeth Graver. Kantika: A Novel
New York: Henry Holt, Metropolitan Books, 2023
Reviewed by Beth DwoskinDaniel Gross. A Banker’s Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Empire
New York: Radius Book Group, 2022
Reviewed by Michael RomHen Mazzig. The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto
Brentwood, Tennessee: Wicked Son Books, Post Hill Press, 2022
Reviewed by Ruth OhayonSarah Sassoon (Author), Noa Kelner (Illustrator). Shoham's Bangle
Minneapolis: Kar-Ben Publishing, 2022
Reviewed by Shelly StraussNaspini, Sacha. Villa del Seminario [Seminary Villa].
Rome: Edizioni e/o, 2023
Reviewed by Laura Paggini
Volume 13
Issue 3 / Summer 2023
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniLiving and Walking the Seam of Jerusalem
Michael SagerPoems: Where is My Home?
Penina Meghnagi SolomonThe Albelda Family: Moses Albelda and Moses ben Jacob Albelda: Prominent, Eminent Scholars
Marvin J. HellerScoop: A Jew from Turkey in Quebec City (1691-1697), before Esther Brandeau
Nicolas-Samuel Baron BernierLeaving Mashhad and Iran : An Iranian Jew Speaks of his Family’s Experience
David Livi, interviewed by Judith RoumaniShlomo 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 SimonDalia 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. GerberHélène 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 IgelJudith Roumani
Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity
Lanham: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2022
Reviewed by Jessica CarrAomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, editors,
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022
Reviewed by Michal Ben Ya’akovJessica M. Marglin
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022
Reviewed by Željka OparnicaRuth 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 StraussBasseri, 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 RoumaniSolomon de Oliveyra: A Seventeenth Century Sephardic Sage
Marvin J. HellerThe Mellah of Fez, Abode of Moroccan Jews and Center of their Activities
Mohamed ChtatouA Conversation on Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, And Modernity
Annette B. Fromm and Judith RoumaniShanghai Breezes: The Isaac Jacob Life Narrative
Elaine MendelowThe Passover Scarf
Judy BelskyThe Only Way Out is Through: Grandmother Rachel’s Bollywood Story
Rachel Yona-ShalevKortijos, erensia sefaradi
Hernán Rodríguez FisseDario Miccoli
A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories across the Modern Mediterranean
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniMichael 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 ZumwaltMichèle Sarde, translated by Rupert Swyer
Returning from Silence: Jenny’s Story
Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2022
Reviewed by Jelena FilipovićAnna Kohen
Flower of Vlora: Growing Up Jewish in Communist Albania
Netherlands: Amsterdam Publishers, 2022
Reviewed by Annette B. FrommA Romanioti Legacy: Adam J. Goldwyn’s Rae Dalven
Reviewed by Diana MatzaArnon 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 RoumaniOn Albert Memmi:
Autour d’Albert Memmi, son décès, son Centenaire
Guy DugasEntrevue avec Albert Memmi, Décembre, 1978
Interviewed by Jacques Roumani, transcribed by Chantal Assoulen, technical assistance by Vivienne Roumani-DennMy Uncle: A Memoir of Postwar Hungary, Italy and Israel
Israel Rodolfo LichtnerDavid M. Bunis: Problems in Judezmo Linguistics Revisited
Interviewed by Judith Roumani, transcribed by Gila (Martha) GrinerHenry 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 OhayonMarc 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 OhayonTurkey’s First Television Series with a Ladino-Speaking Jewish Protagonist
Kulüp (The Club)
Reviewed by Dr. Gökhan Çınkara and Oğul TunaSerena Di Nepi
Surviving the Ghetto: Toward a Social History of the Jewish Community in 16th-Century Rome
Leiden: Brill, 2020
Reviewed by Andrea Yaakov LattesKerem 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 GökatalayKathleen 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. FrommJacob Judah (Aryeh) de Leão Templo, A Converso Scholar, a Jewish Hakham
Marvin J. HellerInterview with Mois Benarroch: from Tetuan to Jerusalem, from Sefarad to Sefarad
Interviewed by Judith Roumani, filmed by Odelia Benarroch, transcribed by Gila (Martha) GrinerI think we all have a mission
Interview with Zina Abraham
From Afghanistan to Florida
Interviewed by Annette B. FrommTres cantones de Estambol: Hasköy, Balat, Kuledibi
Forti BarokasJoseph Chetrit, Jane S. Gerber, and Drora Arussy, editors
Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021
Reviewed by Nadia MalinovichJacky Comforty with Martha Bloomfield
The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust
Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2021
Reviewed by Jason HensleyDaniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Bloomington: Indian University Press, 2020
Reviewed by James Benjamin NadelLaura Arnold Leibman
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021
Reviewed by Michael T. MillerAlexander Moissis
Davitson Effendi, A Romaniote Jewish Pasha in Ioannina
Athens: Kapon Editions; English, Greek, 2021
Reviewed by Annette B. FrommGabriel Tamman
Exodus Too: The Story of an Egyptian Jewish Family in Extraordinary Times
London-Chicago: Vallentine Mitchell, 2021
Reviewed by Yolande CohenClémence Boulouque
Another Modernitiy, Elia Benmazogh’s Jewish Universalism
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020
Reviewed by Andrea Yaakov LattesMyriam Moscona
Tela de Sevoya
Barcelona: Acantilado, 2014
Reviewed by Regina IgelAlain Elkann
Una Giornata
Milano: Bompiani, (in Italian), 2020
Reviewed by K.E. Bättig von WittelsbachHélène 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. FrommMoses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika
Marvin J. HellerSong in my Heart, A Memoir of Days Spent with Moshe Ha Elion, a Survivor of the Shoah
Judith LinSephardic Horizons in the Context of Electronic Publishing
Judith RoumaniRevista, Dina Danon, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press: 2020.
Rachel Amado BortnickFrancesca 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 GerberLeon Saltiel. The Holocaust in Thessaloniki, Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution: 1942–1943. London: Routledge, 2020.
Reviewed by Steven BowmanLeah Davcheva. Kaleidoscope of Identities. Tales of Ladino by Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria. Sofia: Riva Publication, 2021 (in Bulgarian).
Reviewed by Zdravka MihaylovaJonathan Schorsch, Andrée Aelion Brooks, and Ruth K. Abrahams. The Remarkable Life of Luis Moses Gomez. Coxsackie: Flint Mine Press, 2021.
Reviewed by Rochelle StraussStanley Mirvis. Jamaican Jewry: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Michael RomYael Halevi-Wise. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua. Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA, 2021.
Reviewed by Phillip HollanderOrit 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 SimonJonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman (editors). The Albert Memmi Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniAlain 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 CoopermanLaura 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. FrommSarit 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 RoumaniMuslims Listen in the Synagogue: An Intercommunal Reading of the Ten Commandments on Shavuot
Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. GoldbergItalian 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. RoumaniThe Jews of Cyrenaica during World War II, in their Own Words
Vivienne Roumani-DennIndemnification for Libyan Jews after 1943: A Special Case?
Jens HoppeWhen the Waters of the Mediterranean Parted: Jewish Libya and the Trajectory of Escape
Danielle Willard-KyleUn Otro Ermano
A play by Jane Mushabac and Leah VarsanoRevision de Una ijika chika de Galata (2019) de Coya Delevi
Rachel Amado BortnickYolande Cohen, Sépharades du Québec: Parcours d’exils nord-africains, Montreal: Del Busso Editeur, 2017.
Reviewed by Ira RobinsonDonatella Di Cesare, Marranos: The Other of the Other, New York: Politybooks, 2020.
Reviewed by Ignat AyzenbergJane Gerber, Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History, Liverpool & London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2020.
Reviewed by Carsten SchapkowDalia Kandiyoti, The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Jane GerberTobie Nathan, trans. Joyce Zonana, A Land Like You, London & Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2020.
Reviewed by Aimée Israel-PelletierDeborah Starr, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Timothy Riggio QuevillonDevi Mays. Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniJudith Roumani. Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust: Ambiguous Refuge. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2021.
Reviewed by Kora von WittelsbachMónica 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. FrommA Fleeting Moment, A Short-lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth Century Fez
Marvin J. Heller“Land and Sea” (Short story)
Julie RosenzweigUriah Levy: The Sephardic Jewish Navy Commodore Who Saved Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Marc LeepsonThe Caribbean Sephardim in the Ḥaluqah System: From Jerusalem to the West Indies and Back
Yehonatan Elazar-DeMotaLadino i Yo
Karel ValansiLa Komunidad Sefaradia de Izmir, Entonses i Agora
Rachel Amado BortnickHenriette 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 GarihSchaposchnik, Ana E., The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in 17th-Century Peru. University of Wisconsin Press: 2017.
Reviewed by Karem Lissette DelgadoAngelina 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. FrommItaly’s Role in the Holocaust of Greek Jews
Paul HagouelBeing 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 ZezzaThe Evolution of Greek Jewry in Changing Empires 1821-1921
Yitzchak KeremReview Essay: The Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece,
Recent and Not So Recent Publications
Annette B. FrommJudyos dispersados en el mundo
Sharope BlancoDevin Naar. Jewish Salonica, Stanford University Press, 2016.
Reviewed by Dani KranzSarah Abrevaya Stein. Family Papers, A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Reviewed by Jess OlsonJako el Muzikante. Audio CD and Other Materials, Mapamundimusica, 2019.
Reviewed by Leonard SteinIsaac Jack Lévy. The Sephardim in the Holocaust, University of Alabama Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniDov Schwartz (Author), Batya Stein (Translator). The Many Faces of Maimonides,
Academic Studies Press: 2018.
Reviewed by Carsten SchliwskiFrancesca 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 GerberHernán Rodriguez Fisse, Sefardies en el exilio, Ediciones Zéjel, 2019.
Reviewed by Regina IgelLyn Julius, Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish History in the Arab World Vanished Overnight, Vallentine Mitchell, 2018.
Reviewed by Nina LichtensteinGail Carson Levine, A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, HarperCollins, 2020.
Reviewed by Rochelle StraussDaniela Weil, The Diary of Asser Levy, First Jewish Citizen of New York, Pelican Publishing: 2020.
Reviewed by Rochelle StraussExhibition 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 RoumaniThe Pleasures of Teaching Ladino
By Gloria AscherIn Her Own Words
Micaela (Michele) Amato AmateauTales of Seha the Sage and Seha the Clown: Jewish Folktales from Morocco
Marc ElianyResenya: Se réinventer au présent: Les Judéo-espagnols de France: Famille, communauté et patrimoine musical
de Jessica Roda
Carlos Yebra LópezKaminos de Sefarad: Red de Djuderias de Espanya
Liliana BenvenisteA Poem. “No les perdones,” with the original French version
Sharope BlancoCara 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 SamuelThree 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 CohenIlan Stavans. Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Reviewed by Sandra M. CypessFilm 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. FrommVitalis 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
Habib Gerez: Humanist, Artist and Poet
By Isaac Jack LévyA New World: An American Sephardic Memoir
By Rabbi Marc D. AngelDoer and Dreamer: An Interview with Raffaello Fellah (Tripoli 1935—Rome 2008)
By Harvey E. GoldbergGuadalajara: A Fifteenth Century Hebrew Press of Distinction
By Marvin J. HellerMis Dos Papus: Dos Senyores Djudios-Otomanos en Epoka de Transformasion
De Rachel Amado BortnickKe Bivas fina los Sien i Vente: Vidas Largas i kon Sentido
By Hernán Rodríguez FisseKonferensia en Londra sovre el Avenir Dijital del Ladino
By Carlos Yebra LópezSokol, L. & Biniashvili, M. The Spanish Plot. New York: The Judaica Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Rochelle StraussSefarad: A film on Amazon Prime. Dir. Luís Ismael. Portugal, 2019.
Reviewed by Vivienne Roumani-DennFernando José Pancorbo. Joseph Penso de Vega: La creación de un perfil cultural y literario entre Ámsterdam y Livorno. Florence: Olschki, 2019.
Reviewed by David NavarroDuccio 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 NavarroSarah Reguer. The Most Tenacious of Minorities: The Jews of Italy. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Reviewed by Andrée Aelion BrooksRuth 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 RoumaniPaloma 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. FrommSephardim among the Pioneers of the (American) West
By Andrée Aelion BrooksOut of Egypt, A Personal Memoir
By Rabbi Albert GabbaiInterview with David Serero, Sephardic Opera Singer and Director.
Interviewed by Judith RoumaniCuba i Los Sefaradis
By Hernán Rodríguez FisseSo Su Bis Inyeta
By Sharope BlancoVictor Sasson. Shylock of Venice, A Verse Play in Three Acts. Bloomington: iUniverse, Inc., 2012.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniGenie Milgrom. My Fifteen Grandmothers and Pyre to Fire. CreateSpace Publishing, 2012 & 2018.
Reviewed by Seth KuninAimée 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 GreenJerusalem: Elevo de su Universidad
By Hernán Rodríguez FisseGila Green. White Zion. West Sommerville, MA: Cervena Barva Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Susan WeintrobAnne Dublin. A Cage without Bars. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2018.
Reviewed by Annette B. FrommMatti Friedman. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2019.
Reviewed by Nimrod RaphaeliSamir Naqqash. Tenants and Cobwebs. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Reviewed by Nimrod RaphaeliAlbert Memmi. Ed. Guy Dugas. Journal de Guerre 1939-1943. Paris: CNRS, 2019.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniAomar 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. FrommSilas’s Folly: The Beth Aharon Synagogue in Shanghai and How it Saved the Mirrer Yeshiva
By Vera SchwarczBelvedere and Kuru Tsheshme: Sephardic Printing in Late Sixteenth Century Constantinople
By Marvin J. HellerFrom Recife to New York: Dinner with Today’s Conversos of Brazil
By Vivienne Roumani-DennInterview with Arie Toledano, Chairman and Founder of Zera Israel Foundation, Geneva, on Outreach to the Anousim
Email Interview by Judith RoumaniMirar el kafe. meldar el futuro
By Rivka Abiry z"lAnaliz de Livro, Prefiero Chile, de Hernan Rodriguez Fisse
By Rachel Amado BortnickMargalit 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 IgelLucienne Carasso. Growing Up Jewish in Alexandria Egypt. Scotts Valley, CA.: CreateSpace, 2014.
Reviewed by Andre DouekNaim 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 VaronSerena 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 RoumaniAlberto Sarfati, The Painter
By Isaac Jack Levy, with photos by Rosemary ZumwaltTaken from a Distant Country: The Girls from Salonika in Ravensbrück
By Stefania ZezzaSicily, Land of Absences: An Interview with Evelyne Aouate of Palermo on Jews, Bnei Anusim and their descendants in Western Sicily
By Judith RoumaniSusan Kikoler on Sicilian Jews Prior to and after 1492
Interviewed by Judith RoumaniCooking for Others: Fancy and Plain
By Alan MintzThe Role of Sephardic Women in Life Cycle and Festival Events
By Annette FrommLa Boz de las Linguas
By Rivka AbiryMara W. Cohen Ioannides We Are in Exile, Estamos En Galut: A Novel. (Hadassa Word Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Annette FrommSolika: A Play performed at the Jerusalem Theater
Reviewed by Judith Roumani
Issues 1-2 / Winter - Spring 2018
Guest Editor’s Note
Ralph TaricaSephardic or Mizrahi?
Rabbi Haim OvadiaBetween Islam and Judaism: A Moroccan Journey
By an Admirer of Sephardic CultureLadino Revival in the U.S.A.: A Meeting between “Las Vijitas de Alhad” and “Ladinokomunita”
Paola BolasnyGreek Jewish Festival in New York City
Judith RoumaniLa Navaja
Rivka AbiryLa Historia de la Almoronía de Kippur
Alicia Sisso RazJacques Roumani, David, Meghnagi, Judith Roumani, eds. Jewish Libya: Memory and Identity in Text and Image. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018
Reviewed by Lucette Lagnado
Volume 7
Issues 3-4 / Summer - Fall 2017
Editor’s Note
Judith RoumaniThe Book World in Ottoman and Modern Turkey: The Pioneer Jews
Bension VaronItaly’s Cabinet of Shame Revealed: One Case of Frustrated Justice
Judith RoumaniIn Search of the Sephardic Family Name Turiel/Touriel/Tourial
Ralph TaricaSpace, Subjectivity, Symbolism,: A Report from the Conference “Jews in Muslim Societies,” October 2017
Katharine HallsEntrevista Kon Jessamine Irvin sobre la Solisitad de Sivdadania Espanyola
Carlos Yebra LópezLesyones Ke Devemos Aplikar En La Vida
Haim Vitali SadaccaPiano
Rivka AbiryDavid Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
Reviewed by Bension VaronZvi Keren, Studies of Jewish Life in Bulgaria
Reviewed by Steven SageClaudette Sutton, Farewell Aleppo: My Father, My People, and their Long Journey Home
Reviewed by Yaëlle AzaguryFilm directed and produced by Larry Confino and Larry Russo: Trezoros
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniJacques Sardas, Without Return: Memoirs of an Egyptian Jew 1930-1957
Reviewed by Aimée Israel-PelletierNina Lichtenstein, Sephardic Women Writers: Out of North Africa
Reviewed by Youness AbeddourIssues 1-2 / Winter - Spring 2017
Guest Editor’s Note
Ralph TaricaJacques Roumani z"l: In Memoriam
Maurice M. RoumaniJewish 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
ContentsTirant 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 HatsviAlbert Memmi, The Desert: Or, The Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi
Reviewed by Ewa TartakowskyMonique Balbuena, Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniPeter Adam Nash. The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight
Reviewed by Bension VaronBension 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 MushabacEditor’s Note
Judith RoumaniThe Multiple Risks that A.B. Yehoshua Takes in his Novel Mr. Mani
Judith RoumaniAlbert Memmi’s Unheard Sense and Sensitivity: Risks toward an Ethos of Integrity
Marquesa MacadarCode-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 ZezzaDjoha ke se vido kon tavan boyali
Rivka AbiryPoesias para el enverano
Haim Vitali SadaccaEspondjar, Chaftear, Fregar
Hernán Rodríguez FisseSabbatai Tzevi Revisited: Two Books About The False Messiah
Reviewed by Bension VaronEwa Tartakowsky, Les Juifs et le Maghreb: Fonctions sociales d’une littérature d’exil. Paris: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2016
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaIssue 2 - Spring 2016
Editor’s Note
Judith RoumaniThe Future of the Past: Judeo-Spanish in the Twenty-First Century
Bension VaronMizrahi Jewish novelists and the End of Jewish Life in the Middle East: Echoes of Voices
Judith RoumaniEl Musafir
Rivka AbiryKonsierje Asesino
Hernán Rodríguez FissePoesias
Haim Vitali SadaccaDouble Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492 by David Wacks
Reviewed by Vanessa Paloma ElbazHis Hundred Years: A Tale by Shalach Manot
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniIssue 1 - Winter 2016
Editor’s Note
Judith RoumaniReading Letters from the Past: Translating for Historical Research in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
Katharine HallsStories, Food and Place: Following a Sephardic Family to a New Home
Rosemary Lévy ZumwaltLibyan Jewish Art of the Holocaust: Collages
Nava BarazaniSipping Moroccan Memories: Poems and iPad Art
Michal MahgereftehVen Bailar kon el Internet
Rivka AbiryTorres Buchakas Patladeadas
Hernán Rodríguez FissePoesias Muevas
Haim Vitali SadaccaLa 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 VaronIntrigue 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 RoumaniExtract from Tunisian Journal, 1955-56, "Journal d'un retour au pays natal"
Albert MemmiQuelques compléments à propos de l'écriture colorée chez Albert Memmi
Guy DugasUn genre faux ou un faux genre? Novels Taken for Autobiography
Lia BrozgalAlbert Memmi, passeur de mondes
Edmond JouveThe End of Colonialism in Novels by Albert Memmi and Kateb Yacine
Judith RoumaniSivdades a la fin del mundo
Hernán Rodriguez FisseLa Dama en fostan colorado
Rivka AbiryJulia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds. Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. [Stanford: Stanford UP, 2014]
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaLia Nicole Brozgal. Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory. [Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2013]
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniSarah 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 NussenblattVera Paggi. Vicolo degli Azzimi. Dal ghetto di Pitigliano al miracolo economico. [Panozzo Editore, 2013]
Reviewed by Mark LazersonIlko Minev. As Flowers Go [São Paolo: Livros de Safra, 2014]
Reviewed by Steven F. SageIssues 1-2 - Spring/Summer 2015
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniInterview with Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome
Jacques Roumani, translated by Judith RoumaniPure Blood Statues in Sixteenth Century Toledo: Implementation as Opposed to Adoption
Linda MartzThe Sephardic Drinking Song, "I give my life for a taste of raki"
Eugene Normand and Albert S. MaimonThe Tortoise, a poem
Elisabetta Cabbibe PaggiUna Manzana Alesha el Mediko
Rivka AbiryChile, Jeografia Atavanada
Hernán Rodríguez FisseLa Lettre sépharade
Jean CarassoThe Jews of Karnobat by Zvi Keren
Reviewed by Steven F. SageJews in the Caribbean by Jane Gerber
Reviewed by Paulette Kershenovich SchusterCritical Approaches to Jewish Mexican Literature/Aproximaciones críticas a la literature judeomexicana by Darrell Lockhart
Reviewed by Paulette Kershenovich SchusterYo Esto Reklamando! by Moshé Liba, trans. Zelda Ovadia
Reviewed by Albert Garih
Volume 4
Issue 4 - Fall 2014
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniBenghazi—Bergen-Belsen: Extract from a Novel
Yossi SucaryInside and Outside of Gerineldo: From the Gardens of Spain and the Mountains of Morocco
Geoffrey ClarfieldInside and Outside of Gerineldo: From the Gardens of Spain and the Mountains of Morocco
Geoffrey ClarfieldHanukiya
Rivka AbiryPoesias
Haim Vitali SadaccaConversos in the Reponsa of Sephardic and Halakhic Authorities in the Fifteenth Century by Dora Zsom
Reviewed by Andrew ApostolouLa 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 TaricaGiovanni Pico e la cabbalà [Giovanni Pico and the Kabbalah] by Fabrizio Lelli
Reviewed by David NavarroIssue 3 - Summer 2014
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniFrom East to Farther East: The Jewish Experience in Kaifeng, China
Tiberiu WeiszMedieval Iberian Literary Studies in the United States
David WacksThe Girl whose Dress was a Parachute (Poem)
David Almaleck WolinskyLa Siya de Charley
Rivka AbiryDos Poesias Muevas
Haim SadaccaPrevenciones divinas contra la vana idolatría de las gentes, vol. 1 By Isaac Orobio de Castro
Reviewed by Matthew WarshawskyThe Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China By Fook-Kong Wong, Dalia Yasharpour
Reviewed by Tiberiu WeiszKimberly A. Arkin. Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France
Reviewed by Chelsie MayShiru Shir By David Meghnagi
Reviewed by Jacques Roumani'Bsisa' celebration and performance for Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Reviewed by Judith Roumani. Photos by Vivienne Roumani-DennIssue 2 - Spring 2014
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniThe Surname Sulam or Sullam: An Onomastic Analysis
Mathilde TaggerFrom Casablanca to Carnegie Hall: The Untold Tale of North Africa's Jewish Pop Stars
Geoffrey ClarfieldThe Holocaust in Sephardi/Mizrahi Literature: A Review of Some Responses in Prose
Judith RoumaniIstanbul Intrigues: Preface and "The Valet Did It"
Barry RubinDos Madres, Un Nombre
Rivka AbiryDos Poesias
Haim Vitali SadaccaContemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas By Edna Aizenberg and Margalit Bejarano
Reviewed by Regina IgelHow To Live, or, A Life of Montaigne: One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer By Sarah Bakewell
Reviewed by Bension VaronLife after Baghdad By Sasson Somekh
Reviewed by Nimrod RaphaeliIssue 1 - Winter 2014
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniWhere is the Sephardism in A. B. Yehoshua's Hesed Sefaradi/The Retrospective?
Yael Halevi-WiseFive Recommendations to Historians from a History Lover
A.B. Yehoshua, translated by Yael Halevi-Wise and Vas GogasCultural Exchange in the Literatures and Languages of Medieval Iberia
David WacksEl Timbre
Rivka AbiryLa Batalia en Hirbet-el-Buredj
Yehuda HatsviA Mystical Journey by Angelina Muñiz Huberman
Reviewed by David NavarroAn Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty by Renee Levine Melammed
Reviewed by Judith R. CohenMixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song by Maureen Jackson
Reviewed by Judith R. CohenTurkey, the Jews and the Holocaust by Corry Guttstadt
Reviewed by Harold RhodeA Baghdad Chronicle by Reuben Levi
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli
Volume 3
Issue 3- Fall 2013
Editor’s Note
Judith RoumaniL’Oeuvre de ma vie: Reflections on an Algerian childhood
René KarsentiArbres de vie (extract)
Albert KarsentiThe Surname Sasportas: An Onomastical Analysis
Mathilde TaggerThe History of the Jews of Salonika and the Holocaust
Paul HagouelTwo Poems
Haim Vitali SadaccaLa Roza
Rivka AbiryVoyage 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 NavarroSephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History By Aviva Ben-Ur
Reviewed by Bension VaronFilm 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-DennFilm Review: Besa: The Promise. Directed by Rachel Goslins.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniIssue 2 - Summer 2013
Editor’s Note
Judith RoumaniJew, Turk, Frenchman, American: Sephardic Identities in Alfred Ascher’s Judeo-Spanish Diario
Gloria AscherSeven Songs, Seven Identities: Bridging the Past and the Future
Jane MushabacNorth Africa, France, and Israel: Sephardic Identities in the Work of Chochana Boukhobza
Nina B. LichtensteinA Plurality of Bridges: The Sephardic Scholar as Literary Archeologist
Judith RoumaniLas Gainas
Rivka AbiryPorké no? (Poezia)
Matilda Koen SaranoDancing in the Shadows: A Sephardic Memoir By Marvin M. Cohen
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniModern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958
By Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Reviewed by Jacques RoumaniIssue 1 - Winter/Spring 2013
Editor's Note
Judith RoumaniA Scholarly Blind Spot: The Term 'marrano'
Dogan Davit AkmanWine and Poetry: The Young Yehuda Halevi
Hillel HalkinInterview with Israeli Novelist A. B. Yehoshua on his New Novel, The Retrospective
Judith RoumaniShoa deskonosida
Rachel Amado BortnickEl Viaje del Taksi (translation)
Rivka AbiryHaim Vidal Sephiha, A Poem
translated by Matilda Koen-SaranoElko 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 RoumaniThe Judeo-Livornese (Bagitto) Dialect
Gabriele BedaridaGrowing up Jewish in Benghazi, Libya: Interview with Samuele Zarrugh
Jacques RoumaniDoña Gracia Nasi and her Significance for Jewish History
Andrée Aelion BrooksUn Diya de los Diyas
Haim-Vidal SephihaFrancesca 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 RoumaniIsaac Benatar, Rhodes and the Holocaust: The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2010.
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaSephardim in Italy: Two New Publications
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniDoña Gracia Nasi Mendes: A Short Video
Reviewed by Shoshana SegalRobert S. C. Gordon, The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Reviewed by Jacques RoumaniIssue 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 KirchheimerThe Origins of the Name Aseo
Mathilde Tagger and Dogan AkmanGrave Matters: Childhood, Identity, and Converso Funerary Art in Colonial America
Laura Leibman and Suzanna GreenblattThe Story of Ladino: From Roots to Branches
Judith Roumani“Zakynthos, Gresia” translated by Rivka Abiry
Leora GoldbergSephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Edited and with an Introduction by Yael Halevi-Wise
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaSandra Shwayder Sánchez, The Secret of a Long Journey
Reviewed by Regina IgelThe 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 RoumaniIssue 2 - Spring 2012
New Finds on Greek Jewish Heroism in the Holocaust
Yitzchak KeremThe Ladino Poetry of Hezkia Shemuel Tarica
Ralph TaricaArabic as a Jewish Language, Part III: The Beginning and End of Judeo-Arabic
Sasson SomekhUn Tresoro de los Djidyos: Los Pirke Avot
Santos MayoLa Ora del Avuelo
Rivka AbiryTeófilo Ruíz, “The Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire,” audio course.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniIssue 1 - Winter 2012
Arabic as a Jewish Language: Part II, The Judeo-Arabic of the Cairo Geniza
Sasson SomekhOut of Smyrna
Gloria DeVidas KirchheimerSilent Exodus and Forgotten Voices: Sephardic Women Writers in Postcolonial Discourse
Nina LichtensteinA Poem, Claiming Angels
Ronda Angel Arking“Tanto Va el Kantariko”
Rivka AbirySasson Somekh and Deborah Starr, eds., Mongrels or Marvels:
The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohat Kahanoff
Reviewed by Yael Halevi-WiseRoger 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
Essay: "Living Between Question Marks” and Four Poems
Ruth Knafo SettonInterview with Flory Jagoda (Part II)
Rosine NussenblattArabic as a Jewish Language: Medieval and Modern (Part I of III)
Sasson SomekhInterview with Sasson Somekh: A Sephardic Jew’s Engagement with Arabic Language and Literature
Judith Roumani and Jacques RoumaniTraces of Sepharad: An Introduction with an etching, “Si neviim no somos, de neviim venimos”
Marc ShenkarKomo deskuvri la sinagoga de Coria
Jacques CoryPasha: Pensamientos de David Aroughetti
Shalach ManotThe Chaste Wife [La muz’er onesta provada por su marido]
by Elia R. Karmona, translated and introduced by Michael Alpert
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaTwo 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 VaronThree Books on ‘Converso’ Sephardim by Fuat Andic, Gloria Golden, and Yirmiyahu Yovel
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniIssue 3 - Spring 2011
Models of Sephardic Rabbinic Leadership
Rabbi Marc D. AngelAn Albert Memmi Anthology: Essay, Poems, and an Interview with Albert Memmi by Dov Maimon
Translated by Ralph TaricaTwo Tunisian Jewish Novelists: Claude Kayat and Marco Koskas
Interviewed by Judith RoumaniSephardi 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 NussenblattIssue 2 - Winter 2011
Interview with Israeli Novelist A.B. Yehoshua on his New Novel Hesed Sefaradi [Spanish Kindness]
Judith RoumaniInterview with Flory Jagoda, Part I
Rosine NussenblattIn Search of the Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Finding the Courtyard of the Finzi-Magrinis
Judith RoumaniKalsados [Shoes]
Rivka AbiryToledo: El Secreto Oculto, directed by Jack Matitiahu, DVD
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniBoda: Kantigas de Novia, by the Ensemble Saltiel, CD with booklet material by Judith Cohen
Reviewed by Fuat AndicIssue 1 - Fall 2010
Purim and its Relatives in Tripoli: A Comparative Perspective on the Social Uses of Biblical Stories
Harvey GoldbergIn Search of the Family NameTarica: A Genealogical Adventure
Ralph TaricaMexican and Jewish Identity in Herejía, Sabina Berman’s Play on Luis de Carbajal and the Inquisition
Sandra M. CypessMulticulturalism versus Assimilation: Memoirs of a Sephardic Turk.
Bension VaronJewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
Reviewed by Robert NussenblattFriendly Fire By A. B. Yehoshua
Reviewed by Judith Roumani