Books

JIMENA Staff’s Suggested Books in Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies

Sephardic History
Ladino reveries: Tales of the Sephardic experience in America
by Hank Halio
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Jewish Languages
Ladino-English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary
by Elli Kohen & Kohen-Gordon
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Children’s Books
Las Aventuras de Alisia en el Paiz de las Maraviyas: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Ladino Edition)
by Lewis Carroll (Author), John Tenniel (Illustrator), Avner Perez (Translator)
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Sephardic History
Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews
by David Yeroushalmi
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Sephardic History
Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
by Oded Zinger
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Sephardic Thought
Loving Truth and Peace: The Grand Religious Worldview of Rabbi Benzion Uziel
by Marc D. Angel
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Children’s Books
Lucky Broken Girl
by Ruth Behar
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Children’s Books
Luis de Torres Sails to Freedom
by Tami Lehman-Wilzig (Author), Oliver Averill (Illustrator)
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Sephardic Rabbinic Literature
Ma’amar al Yishmael
by Shelomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet
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Jewish Languages
Manuel of Judeo-Spanish
by Marie-Christine Varol
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Sephardic History
Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco
by Aomar Boum
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Sephardic History
Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period
by Rifat Bali
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