Books

A picture book in which Estrella helps her great aunt Fortuna move from her Miami Beach home, learning about the family's Sephardic journey from Spain to Turkey to Cuba and the key she carries.

A study of Togo Mizrahi, the Alexandrian Jewish director and producer whose films of the 1930s and 1940s helped build the Egyptian film industry and portrayed Egypt's cosmopolitan, multiethnic society.

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.

A graphic novel grounded in archival research that follows Hans Frank, a German Jewish journalist who flees the Nazis and is interned in Vichy labor camps in the Algerian Sahara, revealing the little known Holocaust history of North Africa.

A counting book for toddlers, ages 0 to 2, by Ladino singer Sarah Aroeste that introduces numbers in Ladino through Sephardic objects such as oil candles, hand drums, and biscochos, with papercut illustrations.

Argues that the near total disappearance of Jewish communities across the Arab world in the twentieth century resulted from nationalism, Islamism, and state persecution, tracing the exodus of nearly a million Jews and its legacy.

Victoria from girlhood in a crowded Jewish courtyard house in early twentieth century Baghdad through marriage, poverty, and family upheaval, a richly detailed portrait of Iraqi Jewish family and women's lives before the community's departure.

A study of Sephardic rabbis and thinkers from the Ottoman and Mediterranean world after the 1492 expulsion, showing how they responded to exile, modernity, and change through their writings on law, ethics, and community life.

Journalist Massoud Hayoun retells the lives of the grandparents who raised him, who grew up in Egypt and Tunisia and later moved through France to Los Angeles, to argue for an Arab Jewish identity he sees as erased by colonialism.

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.

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.

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.