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Nonfiction Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Cookbook Stella’s Sephardic Table: Jewish Family Recipes From the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes Stella Cohen; Marc Hoberman, photographer
Nonfiction Nomadic Soul: My journey from the Libyan Sahara to a Jewish Life in Los Angeles Ed Elhaderi
Nonfiction The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus Marjorie Lehman
Nonfiction Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391 Paola Tartakoff
Nonfiction Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Fiction King Solomon and the Golden fish: Tales From the Sephardic Tradition Matilda Koén-Sarano, ed.; Regineta Haboucha, trans. and annotator
Nonfiction Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire Olga Borovaya
Nonfiction Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg, eds.
Essay Genetic Memory: Feeling Jewish Earlier this week, Doreen Carvajal wrote about trying to recover her family’s secret identity and how to unlock and preserve memories. She has been blogging… Doreen Carvajal August 17, 2012
