Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and their Glob­al­iz­ing Com­mu­ni­ty by Avi­ad Moreno is a ground­break­ing explo­ration of Sephardic iden­ti­ty, his­to­ry, and migra­tion. This book offers a fresh per­spec­tive on dias­po­ra stud­ies, par­tic­u­lar­ly for under­stand­ing Sephardic and Mizrahi com­mu­ni­ties in the mod­ern era.

Through metic­u­lous research, Moreno traces the jour­ney of His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews across the globe over the past 150 years. From Moroc­co to Latin Amer­i­ca, Israel, Europe, and North Amer­i­ca, the book uncov­ers how this com­mu­ni­ty sus­tained itself through shared nar­ra­tives and cul­tur­al con­nec­tions. By exam­in­ing the inter­twined his­to­ries of Spain and Moroc­co — not only as ances­tral home­lands but also through the lens of Span­ish colo­nial­ism in North Africa — Moreno reveals a unique sto­ry of post­colo­nial migra­tion and iden­ti­ty formation.

The book’s inno­v­a­tive frame­work rede­fines dias­po­ra-mak­ing, empha­siz­ing hybrid­i­ty and inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty. It chal­lenges tra­di­tion­al notions of iso­lat­ed Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties by show­ing how Sephardic Jews nav­i­gat­ed transna­tion­al net­works and main­tained a dynam­ic con­nec­tion to their roots in the His­panophone world. Moreno also high­lights the role of lan­guage and cul­tur­al adap­ta­tion in sus­tain­ing this glob­al­iz­ing community.

Beyond its con­tri­bu­tions to acad­e­mia, the book has far-reach­ing impli­ca­tions for how we under­stand Jew­ish iden­ti­ty and belong­ing in an inter­con­nect­ed world, offer­ing valu­able insights for any­one inter­est­ed in glob­al migra­tion, cul­tur­al resilience, and the endur­ing pow­er of shared heritage.