Sephardic Jews
Conversos, Inquisition, and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain by Publication Date: 1995
Empires and entrepots the Dutch, the Spanish monarchy, and the Jews, 1585-1713 by Publication Date: 1990
Exiles in Sepharad : the Jewish millennium in Spain by Publication Date: 2015
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain by Publication Date: 2002
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir by
By the turn of the twentieth century, the eastern Mediterranean port city of Izmir had been home to a vibrant and substantial Sephardi Jewish community for over four hundred years, and had emerged as a major center of Jewish life. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir tells the story of this long overlooked Jewish community, drawing on previously untapped Ladino archival material. Across Europe, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? Dina Danon argues that while Jewish religious and cultural distinctiveness might have remained unquestioned in this late Ottoman port city, other elements of Jewish identity emerged as profound sites of tension, most notably those of poverty and social class. Through the voices of both beggars on the street and mercantile elites, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, rabbis and housewives, this book argues that it was new attitudes to poverty and class, not Judaism, that most significantly framed this Sephardi community's encounter with the modern age.
ISBN: 9781503608283Publication Date: 2020-03-24
Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture by Publication Date: 2005
Sephardi lives : a documentary history, 1700-1950 by Publication Date: 2014
Mizrahi Jews
On the Mediterranean and the Nile : the Jews of Egypt by Publication Date: 2018
Uprooted : how 3000 years of Jewish civilization in the Arab world vanished overnight by Publication Date: 2018
Sephardic Jewry and Mizrahi Jews by Publication Date: 2007
The Mizrahi era of rebellion : Israel's forgotten civil rights struggle, 1948-1966 by Publication Date: 2015
Articles
- Genealogies of Sepharad ("Jewish of Spain"). Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History)Publication Date: December 2020
Databases
- ATLA Religion Database (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowResearch scholarly articles and books on biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Links to full text for Northeastern-subscribed materials.
- Index to Jewish Periodicals WITH Jewish Studies Source (EbscoHOST) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts to English-language articles and book reviews on Jewish history, activity and thought in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, combined with full text periodicals in Jewish Studies Source.
Geographical and Cultural Roots
Ashkenazi, plural Ashkenazim, from Hebrew Ashkenaz (“Germany”), member of the Jews who lived in the Rhineland valley and in France before their migration eastward to Slavic lands (e.g., Poland, Lithuania, Russia) after the Crusades (11th–13th century) and their descendants. After the 17th-century persecutions in eastern Europe, large numbers of these Jews resettled in western Europe. Ashkenazim differ from Sepharim in their pronunciation of Hebrew, in cultural traditions, in synagogue chanting in their widespread use of Yiddish ), and especially in synagogue liturgy.
Mizrahi: Modern Hebrew term deriving from Edot'HaMizrah, Jews from the East. It denotes "eastern" or "oriental" Jews who have been settled in the Middle East and North Africa since Biblical times. It also refers to Jews of the greater Babylonian diaspora, (present day Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and the southern Ex-Soviet republics.) Nowadays it also encompasses Jews from Yemen, the subcontinent and Ethiopia- any Jew who is not Ashkenazi.
Sephardi- literally, Jews who were expelled from Spain (Seraphad) and Portugal after 1492. Most Midddle Eastern and North African communities are now mixed Sephardi and Miizrahi.
Lyn Julius, Uprooted: how 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight. (Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2018), v111.
Converso- A Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of his or her descendants. The majority of Spain's Jews converted to Christianity as a result of the pogroms in 1391.
E-Journals
Music: Check Scholar One Search for CDs as well as streaming titles.
- Sephardic Music: A Century of Recordings This website showcases over 100 years of recorded Sephardic music, from the 78 rpm era to the present. It first explores in detail the earliest Sephardic recordings, the artists that made them, and their repertory and performance practices. These early recordings tell a rich story of Sephardic musical life in the first half of the 20th century.
Select Documentaries
- Acts of Faith: Jewish Civilization in Spain byPublication Date: 1992
- The longing: the forgotten Jews of South America byPublication Date: 2007
- The Making of Spain- Episodes 1-3 byPublication Date: 2015
- A matter of time the Jews of North Africa in world war II byPublication Date: 2002
- Story of the Jews, Episode 2: Among Believers byPublication Date: 2014
Organizations
- American Sephardi Federation proudly preserves and promotes the "Preserves the history, traditions, and rich mosaic culture of Greater Sephardic communities as an integral part of the Jewish experience."