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

    Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s

    by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
    Examines the Zionist underground movement among Iraqi Jewish youth in the 1940s, its relations with the community leadership and emissaries from Palestine, and its role in the mass emigration of 1950 and 1951.
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