Books

Books recommended by JIMENA staff for readers, students, and educators exploring the history, literature, languages, and traditions of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Browse children’s books, novels, history, Jewish languages, and Sephardic thought.

  • History & Nonfiction

    Two Thousand Years of Jewish life in Morocco

    by Haïm Zafranim
    A broad survey by a leading scholar of Moroccan Jewry covering two millennia of Jewish history in Morocco, with chapters on communal institutions, religious law, mysticism, poetry, popular culture, and relations with Muslim neighbors.
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  • Poetry

    You Who Cross My Path: Selected Poems by Erez Bitton

    by Erez Bitton and Tsipi Keller
    This first U.S. publication of Erez Bitton, the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli poetry, brings Moroccan Jewish culture and memory to life through evocative bilingual poems that preserve a vanishing world and expand the boundaries of modern Hebrew poetry.
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