Books

JIMENA Staff’s Suggested Books in Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies

Jewish Languages
The Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Baghdad
by Assaf Bar-Moshe
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Sephardic History
The Beauty of Sephardic Life: Scholarly, Humorous & Personal Reflections
by Sam B. Maimon
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Children’s Books
The Boston Chocolate Party
by Tami Lehman-Wilzig and Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz
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Children’s Books
The Button Box
by Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams (Authors), Harshad Marathe (Illustrator)
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Sephardic History
The Collected Works of Hakham Dr. José Faur
by Joseph Faur and Eli Shaubi
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Sephardic History
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
by Peter Cole
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Sephardic History
The End of Judaism in Muslim Lands
by Shmuel Trigano
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Sephardic Rabbinic Literature
The Essential Pele Yoetz: An Encyclopedia of Ethical Jewish Living
by Rabbi Eliezer Papo, translated by Marc D. Angel
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Sephardic History
The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage
by Loolwa Khazzoom
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Sephardic History
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
by Robert Brody
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Children’s Books
The Henna Helper
by Tami Lehman-Wilzig (Author), Yinon Ptahia (Illustrator)
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Sephardic History
The History of the Jews of Italy
by Cecil Roth
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