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

    The Yemenites: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Culture

    by Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
    An illustrated Israel Museum volume on the material culture of Yemenite Jews, presenting their costume, jewelry, ritual objects, manuscripts, and daily life alongside essays on two thousand years of community history.
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  • Fiction & Literature

    White Zion

    by Gila Green
    A novel in linked stories by Gila Green following a Yemenite Jewish family across generations, from nineteenth century Yemen to pre state Palestine, modern Israel, and Canada.
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  • Religion & Philosophy

    Yemenite Midrash: Philosophical Commentaries on the Torah: An Anthology of Writings from the Golden Age of Judaism in the Yemen

    by Y. Tzvi Langermann
    An anthology of translated medieval Yemenite Jewish commentaries on the Torah, showing how Yemen's scholars blended Jewish tradition with philosophy, science, and Islamic thought.
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