Books

A reference volume gathering Encyclopaedia Iranica entries on Iranian Jewish communities, covering their history, cities, languages, religious life, arts, and the modern diaspora.

A collection of scholarly essays on the Jews of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, covering religion, language, gender, colonialism, music, and migration from the medieval era to the twentieth century.

A scholarly history of Iranian Jews in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining why many converted to Islam or the Baha'i faith and how others resisted conversion under social and missionary pressures.

An illustrated collection of essays and photographs on the Jews of Libya, exploring their long history, family life, language, religious practice, and the memory of their twentieth century displacement to Israel and Italy.

An anthropological history of Jews in Libya, examining Jewish and Muslim relations during Ottoman and Italian rule, the community's ties with neighbors as rivals and relatives, and the violence that ended it.

A survey history of Moroccan Jewish life from its ancient origins before Islam through Islamic dynasties, the French protectorate, mass emigration, and the postcolonial era, written as a concise scholarly overview.

A history of the Jewish community of Salonica from its final Ottoman decades through its incorporation into Greece after 1912, examining citizenship, the Ladino press, and communal life before the Holocaust.

A history of the relationship between Jews and their Kurdish tribal chieftains in nineteenth and twentieth century Kurdistan, largely in northern Iraq, based on oral testimonies and showing how Jews negotiated protection until their emigration to Israel.

An English selection of three decades of poetry by Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Moroccan born poet raised in Ashdod, confronting Mizrahi marginalization, the loss of Arabic, and Israeli politics.

A collection of essays by Albert Memmi, the Tunisian Jewish writer, arguing that Jews in Arab lands lived as an oppressed minority and presenting Zionism as a movement of Jewish national liberation.

A classic concise history by Shelomo Dov Goitein of social and cultural relations between Jews and Arabs from ancient times through the medieval Islamic world to the modern era.

An edited volume of studies on Jewish and Muslim interactions across the Islamic world from medieval to modern times, covering law, intellectual exchange, community life, and historical memory.