Books

A ethnographic study of Kurdish Jewish life before World War II, documenting the community’s material culture, religious practices, family traditions, occupations, and relations with Muslim neighbors, while preserving the history and heritage of a Jewish community that largely migrated to Israel in the mid-twentieth century.

A history of Libyan Jewry under Ottoman, Italian, and British rule, examining coexistence with Muslim neighbors, wartime persecution, the 1945 and 1948 riots, and the community's resettlement in Israel and Italy.

A multivolume history of the Jewish communities of Islamic Spain from the eighth to the twelfth century, describing their leaders, scholars, poets, economic life, and relations with Muslim rulers.

A study of the Jews of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia under Vichy French rule and German occupation in World War Two, examining anti Jewish laws, internment, and the impact of the Allied landings.

A social history of the Jews of Izmir from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how poverty, charity, and class shaped communal life and Jewish responses to Ottoman modernization.

A history of the Sephardic community of Rhodes from Ottoman times through Italian rule, covering its rabbis, institutions, and customs, until its destruction in the Holocaust and its emigrant communities abroad.

A history of Sephardic Jews from their beginnings in Roman and medieval Iberia through the 1492 expulsion and their diaspora across the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

An edited collection of essays surveying the Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, organized by country and by themes such as education, nationalism, and emigration.

An edited volume of essays by leading scholars on Jewish life across the Ottoman Empire from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, covering Sephardic settlement, community institutions, economics, culture, and relations with the state.

A history of Yemenite Jewry from 1800 to 1914, examining community life under Ottoman and Imamate rule, social and economic conditions, messianic currents, and the early waves of emigration to Palestine.

A collection of scholarly studies on the history and culture of Yemenite Jews, covering their relations with Muslim rulers, messianic movements, Hebrew and Judeo Arabic literature, and religious traditions from medieval to modern times.

A Portuguese language memoir by Alain Bigio tracing his family's departure from Ismailia, Egypt, amid rising anti Jewish hostility and their new life in the Higienópolis neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1950s.