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.

  • Poetry

    You Who Cross My Path: Selected Poems by Erez Bitton

    by Erez Bitton and Tsipi Keller
    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.
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  • History & Nonfiction

    Zikrayat: Eight Jewish Women Remember Egypt

    by Nayra Atiya
    Oral histories of eight Jewish women recalling their lives in Egypt and experiences of displacement.
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  • 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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