Books

JIMENA Staff’s Suggested Books in Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies

Sephardic History
The Jews of Yemen: Studies in their History and Culture
by Yosef Tobi
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Sephardic History
The Journey: From Ismaeleya to Higienópolis – The story of an Egyptian Jew
by Alain Bigio
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Sephardic History
The Juderia: A Holocaust Survivor’s Tribute to the Jewish Community of Rhodes
by Laura Varon
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Children’s Books
The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music
by Debbie Levy (Author), Sonja Wimmer (Illustrator)
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Jewish Languages
The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou, Morocco: An Ethnolinguistic Study
by Norman A. Stillman
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Sephardic History
The Last Ottoman Century and Beyond: The Jews in Turkey and the Balkans 1808-1945
by Minna Rozen
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Sephardic History
The Lost World of the Egyptian Jews: First-person accounts from Egypt’s Jewish community in the Twentieth Century
by Liliane Dammond
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Sephardic History
The Mellah Society: Jewish Community Life in Sherifian Morocco
by Shlomo Deshen
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Sephardic Thought
The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam’s Mystical Tradition
by Yamin Levy
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Sephardic History
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
by Dario Fernandez-Morera
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Sephardic History
The New Babylonian Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Community in Iraq, 16th-20th centuries C.E.
by Zvi Yehudah
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Novels
The Pillar of Salt
by Albert Memmi
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