Israeli Bourekas Films

Deborah Starr, Rami Kimchi

• Paperback | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas F... Lees meer

Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen

Mark S Wagner, Sarah Abrevaya Stein

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact with ... Lees meer

The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition

Sarah J Pearce

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Beginning in 1172, Judah ibn Tibbon, who was called the father of Hebrew translators, wrote a letter to his son that was full of personal and professi... Lees meer

Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• With only a small remnant of Jews still living in the Maghrib at the beginning of the 21st century, the vast majority of today's inhabitants of North ... Lees meer

Jews and the Mediterranean

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• What does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowle... Lees meer

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

Daniela Flesler, Adrián Pérez Melgosa

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary... Lees meer

Jews and the Mediterranean

• Paperback | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• What does an understanding of Jewish history contribute to the study of the Mediterranean, and what can Mediterranean studies contribute to our knowle... Lees meer

Israeli Bourekas Films

Deborah Starr, Rami Kimchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Bourekas F... Lees meer

Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic

Ronnie Perelis

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Chri... Lees meer

A Sephardi Sea

Dario Miccoli

• Paperback | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their... Lees meer

The Beginnings of Ladino Literature

Olga Borovaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians, be... Lees meer

An Ode to Salonika

Renée Levine Melammed

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourish... Lees meer

A Sephardi Sea

Dario Miccoli

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their... Lees meer

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

Daniela Flesler, Adrián Pérez Melgosa

• Paperback | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary... Lees meer

Meat Matters

Hagar Salamon

• Paperback | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty year... Lees meer

Modern Ladino Culture

Olga Borovaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman ... Lees meer

Jewish Literary Eros

Isabelle Levy

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• In Jewish Literary Eros , Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval prosimetra (texts comp... Lees meer

Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature

David A Wacks

• Hardcover | Engels | Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
• The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. W... Lees meer