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An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters. One of The Economist's Best Books of 2019 A New York Times Book ……続きを見る

Uncover the complex and often overlooked role of Jews in the American slave trade. "Jews and the American Slave Trade" delves deep into the historical records, shedding light on the multifaceted inv……続きを見る

Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early……続きを見る

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts int……続きを見る

An honest and stark account of life on the battlefield during the Six-Day War When the historic Six-Day War breaks out in June 1967, Yaël Dayan finds herself on the front lines in the Sinai desert, ……続きを見る

"A gem of a book. . . . Indeed, the work has the potential to transform the teaching and understanding of modern Jewish history." ーDiana Matza, H-Net This ground-breaking documentary history contai……続きを見る

“Titan of Tehran,” a richly reported and elegantly rendered story, presents a compelling central character, historic sweep and moments that read like chapters in a thriller. The titan is Habib Elgha……続きを見る

In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as “Los Manzanos” (“The Apple Trees”) but whose name changes to “Maimonides” (the Jewish sage) depending on which ……続きを見る

In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some……続きを見る

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly inter……続きを見る

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, became renowned for his vernacular books that were……続きを見る

This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the mot……続きを見る

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jewsーdescendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal sett……続きを見る

The goals and challenges that face the people of Israel are vividly illustrated by the country’s many folk stories. Here Haya Bar-Itzhak presents these talesーgathered from the early settlers of the……続きを見る

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sa……続きを見る