Books

A Hebrew prayer book following the Edot HaMizrach rite used by Sephardic and Mizrahi communities, containing weekday, Sabbath, and holiday prayers.

A set of prayer books for weekdays, Sabbath, festivals, and High Holidays prepared by a longtime Seattle hazzan, preserving the liturgy and customs that Sephardic immigrants from Turkey and Rhodes brought to Seattle, with English translation.

A novel by Ayelet Tsabari in which Zohara returns to Israel in the 1990s after her mother's death and uncovers her mother's love story from a Yemenite immigrant transit camp in the 1950s.

A memorial volume of scholarly essays on Sephardic history, literature, liturgy, music, and folklore, edited by Rabbi Marc Angel in honor of David Barocas, a leader in preserving Sephardic heritage in America.

Follows Ori Elhayani as a girl in a southern Israeli town and again as a writer in her thirties, weaving childhood loss, a spell of muteness, and a moment she believes is God speaking through a television into a meditation on memory, faith, and storytelling.

A history of the Jewish communities of Damascus, Aleppo, and Beirut between 1840 and 1880, covering the Damascus blood libel, Ottoman reforms, European influence, economic change, and shifting communal leadership.

An edition of Saadia Gaon's tenth century translation of the Torah into Judeo Arabic, a foundational text long read in Yemenite and other Arabic speaking Jewish communities.

A bilingual digital anthology by Israeli author Almog Behar that rejects strict copyright norms by inviting readers to freely replicate and distribute his work, weaving together alternative translations of his short stories and poetry to explore the complexities of Mizrahi identity, cultural displacement, and the fractured, silenced relationship between the Hebrew and Arabic languages.

A history of Russian Ashkenazi Jews who migrated across the Black Sea to Istanbul and Aegean farming colonies in the late Ottoman Empire, and how they built a community alongside Sephardic Jews amid the empire's final crises.

A history of the Alliance Israélite Universelle schools in Morocco from 1862 to 1962, examining how French Jewish education reshaped Moroccan Jewish society, its relations with Muslim neighbors and colonial authorities, and its path toward emigration.

A commemorative publication issued in 1885 for the twenty fifth anniversary of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Paris based organization that founded schools and defended Jewish rights across North Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans.

A linguistic study of the Judeo Arabic dialect of Baghdad's Jews, describing its sounds, grammar, and vocabulary, with transcribed texts recorded from native speakers.