Books

JIMENA Staff’s Suggested Books in Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies

Children’s Books
A Treasury of Sephardic Bedtime Stories
by Shmuel Blitz (Author) Rabbi David Sutton (Editor)
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Sephardic Rabbinic Literature
A Treasury of Sephardic Laws and Customs: The Ritual Practices of Syrian, Moroccan, Judeo-Spanish and Spanish and Portuguese Jews of North America
by Herbert C. Dobrinsky
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Sephardic Rabbinic Literature
Abrabanel on Pirke Avot: A Digest of Rabbi Isaac Abrabanel’s “Nahalat Avot”
by Isaac Abrabanel (Author), Abraham Chill (Compiler)
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Sephardic History
After the Eagles Landed: The Yemenites of Israel
by Herbert S. Lewis
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Sephardic Thought
Aleppo Tales
by Haim Sabato
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Sephardic History
An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
by Renée Levine Melammed
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Children’s Books
Apples and Pomegranates: A Rosh Hashanah Seder
by Rahel Musleah, Judy Jarrett Gier
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Novels
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti
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Sephardic History
Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era
by Julia Phillips Cohen
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Sephardic History
Between Foreigners and Shi‘is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority
by Daniel Tsadik
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Sephardic History
Beyond the Rivers of Babylon: My journey of optimism and resilience in a turbulent century
by Joseph Samuels
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Children’s Books
Buen Shabat, Shabbat Shalom
by Sarah Aroeste (Author), Ayesha L. Rubio (Illustrator)
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