Books

A history of Turkish Jews from 1950 through the following decades of multiparty politics, examining their efforts to prove loyalty as model citizens amid nationalism, discrimination, and emigration to Israel.

A study of the Ladino press, novels, and theater in the late Ottoman Empire, showing how Judeo Spanish print culture spread modern ideas and created new forms of entertainment among Sephardic readers.

A collection of essays and fiction by Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff, the Cairo born writer who championed a pluralistic Levantine identity bridging Jewish, Arab, and European cultures in Egypt and Israel.

Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff is a collection of essays, autobiographical reflections, and cultural criticism exploring Egyptian Jewish history, Sephardic and Mizrahi identity, Levantine multiculturalism, Jewish–Arab relations, and the experiences of Middle Eastern Jews in Israel, emphasizing the rich cultural diversity of the Middle East and its influence on modern Israeli society.

A two volume collection of essays by leading scholars on the history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Sephardic diaspora after 1492, covering community, culture, religion, and the expulsion.

A picture book about a couple who welcome a mysterious traveler for the Sabbath and receive an unusual blessing, a gentle story about hospitality and gratitude.

A memoir tracing the author's Iraqi Jewish family from Baghdad to Bombay to Sydney, exploring four generations of migration, the decline of Bombay's Baghdadi community, and food as a vessel of family memory.

A history of Iraqi Jews from the late Ottoman era through the 1950s, showing how Baghdad's Jews embraced Arab culture, journalism, and politics as Iraqi patriots before persecution and the 1950 to 1951 exodus.

A literary and cultural study of twentieth century Egyptian Jewish writers, including Jacqueline Kahanoff, Edmond Jabès, and André Aciman, exploring how memory of cosmopolitan Egypt and exile shapes their work.

A picture book that tells the story of the 1949 airlift of Yemen's Jews to Israel through two perspectives, a young Yemeni Jewish girl and an Alaska Airlines pilot who flew the rescue planes.

Michael Frank's account of six years of weekly conversations with Stella Levi, a survivor born in the Jewish quarter of Rhodes, recalling its Judeo Spanish world before her deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.

A bilingual Ladino and English picture book for children up to age five, based on Sarah Aroeste's children's album, about morning routines and the things to be thankful for on waking.