Preserving Sephardi Judaism for the Future
A bibliography of the publications of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and other Sephardim
About
This website is designed to preserve the intellectual, cultural and historical heritage of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, sometimes referred to as "Western Sephardim" or the "Portuguese Nation", who are part of a wider circle of Sephardic communities. This preservation project is also intended to assist in restoring Sephardi Judaism as a living culture, following many ruptures that have taken place affected it's ability to passmit's values and learning methods to new generations. The name "Western Sephardim" itself is a bit of a misnomer, as whilst this tradition features adapting to elements of western dress, decorum and manners, this very adaption itself is something Sephardim have done all around the world for centuries and is a continuation in the West of what Sephardim did in the East. The intellectual learning methods are the same between different Sephardim and many Sephardim from other parts of the world assisted in helping the Portuguese Jews in re-establishing their communities following the horrors of the inquisition.
To find out more about the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, please see the Wikipedia entry on this subject. There are also many useful and informative websites about these communities in the links section of this website.
There is a Pan-Sephardic bibliography for important works from the wider Sephardi community, including works of Jewish law, philosophy, literature and history and a small section of important works by Ashkenazim that communicate well to the Sephardi tradition. There is a MENA bibliography covering works related to Islam, Christianity, Mediterranean society and culture, the Middle East and relevant works of philosophy and knowledge. This is to help aid people in accessing works that are important to both Sephardi history and to understand the context in which they lived until the middle of the twenty-first century. This site is incomplete and is an on-going project. Updates appear regularly.
When making this website and selecting relevant titles, I had the following quote in mind from Abraham Levy and Lucien Gubbay's book The Sephardim:
... the traditional Sephardi attitudes of accommodation and tolerance may have something to offer modern Jewish society, deeply polarised towards its extreme. They point out that the terms 'Orthodox' and 'Reform' are both Ashkenazi concepts- as indeed was reform in response to the European Enlightenment, and the vigorous reaction against it.
They continue:
In their better periods, Sephardim managed to achieve a rare synthesis between their own intense religious consciousness and the world around them. They led well-balanced lives, both as devout Jews and as members of society at large. This was demonstrated by the breadth of their learning and accomplishment- not only in Judaism but also in the full range of secular activity. Sephardi interpretation of Jewish law was marked by an openness and tolerance which resulted from many generations of living at ease with their neighbours.
I'd like to thank some people whose contributions have made the formation of this bibliography possible. First, I'd like to thank Rabbi Jonathan Cohen for introducing me to websites and resources with a wealth of information about the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Rabbi Cohen's websites and books appear in different sections of this website. Another thank you goes to Rabbi Jose Faur whose brilliant scholarship and teaching of the Sephardi tradition has helped keep our intellectual culture hanging by a thread. His books were also a great source of materials and acted at times as a guide. I'd also like to thank David Shasha from the Centre for Sephardic Heritage, Brooklyn, NY for his promotion of Sephardic books and his annual book recommendations list which has helped guide me in compiling this website. Professor Ammiel Alcalay's books have been a point of discovery of many Sephardi writer's and intellectual's and without them, many names and the works that belong to them would be even more obscure than they already are. Stephen Schwartz and his book on Bosnian Jewry was also extremely helpful in exposing titles related to Jews from that region. I'd also like to mention the late Professor Maria Rosa Menocal whose books are a gateway into the world of Iberian literature and culture.
S&P Bibliography
The list of books below provides access to as many titles as possible related to the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. It does not attempt to be the most exhaustive list of books ever printed and in a number of instances I use the meta data of the most recent publication of a title instead of earlier editions. This is especially true of older books. Many of the out-of-print titles are available second hand through a number of second hand booksellers and come back into print from time to time. Aside from a small number of titles, the majority of books in this list are easily obtainable.
The bibliography is separated into subject tables:
| Table 1 | Halacha, Theology, Customs and Minhagim |
| Table 2 | Miqra, Commentary and Sermons |
| Table 3 | History and Synagogue's |
| Table 4 | Grace After Meals, Haggadot, Prayer Books and Other Guides |
| Table 5 | Biographies and Memoirs |
| Table 6 | Music Books |
| Table 7 | Fiction, Poetry, Home and Miscellaneous |
| Table 8 | Other Books about Judaism with Significant Mention of the S&P |
| Table 8.1 | Other S&P Items |
| Table 9 | Discography |
Table 1: Works of Halacha, Theology, Customs and Minhagim
Whilst this section is concerned with religious treaties written by our ministers, I'm only including those titles with a known recent or recent-past physical publication by a professional printer, that is not too historic. Many titles that are long out of print are available from online archive websites and an extensive list of publications by Portuguese Sephardim, mostly as scanned pages, is available here: https://homens-da-nacao.blogspot.com/2013/03/western-sephardic-intellectual-tradition.html
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| The following book is available from: Yeshivat Ahavat Shalom, 12 Rechov Levi Yitzak MiBerditchev, Jerusalem (265₪). ישיבת אהבת שלום, 12 רחוב לוי יצחק מברדיצ'ב, ירושלים | |||||||
| Rabbi Shem Tob Gaguine רבי שם טוב גאגין | Keter Shem Tob כתר שם טוב | 1936 | Halacha, Minhagim, Amsterdam, London, Laws, Rituals הלכה, מנהגים, אמסטרדם, לונדון, חוקי, טקסים | Hebrew/ עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| דויד ניטו | הכוזרי השני- מטה דן | (2009) מוסד הרב קוק | David Nieto, Oral Law, London, Livorno | עברית |  | -כן ספר לינק | |
| חזקיה די סילוה | פרי חדש | (1691) זיכרון האהרון, ירושלים | ירושלים | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| רבי רפאל מלדולה | חופת חתנים | 1991 | ובו כל העיניינים הקשורים בנישואין. דפוס ירושלים תשכ"א. | עברית |  | -כן ספר לינק | |
| מנשה בן ישראל | נשמת חיים | הוצאה לאור מהודרה ראשונה/ 1858 | אמסטרדם | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| רבי עובדיה מברטנורה * | ששה סדרי משנה (סדר זרעים) | הוצאת ספרים אשכול / 1951 | משנה, ספרדי האיטלקי | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| Jakob Josef Petuchowski | The Theology of Haham David Nieto: An eighteenth-century defence of the Jewish tradition | Ktav Publishing House (1970) | 978-0870680151 | David Nieto, London, Livorno, Oral Law | English |  | -No Book Link to open source |
| The following book is a complete translation. Parts 1-2 were translated by Louis Loewe, parts 3-5 were translated by Raphael Loewe. | |||||||
| David Nieto | Matteh Dan | David Nieto, Oral Law, London, Livorno | English, Espanol, Hebrew, עברית |  | -Yes Book Link to Product | ||
| The following series of books were translated by an enthusiastic academic from South America. Whilst it is a brilliant project, I cannot be 100% sure that the translations can speak in the manner of the original text, conveying the ideas of the subject as the translator does not have a background in Hebrew, Rabbinic Judaism and an outsider to the Sephardi community was used for the Hebrew. This note is for all books in this series. | |||||||
| David Nieto | On Divine Providence or Universal Nature: First Unabridged Edition in English | Walter Hiliger (2019) | 9782956185949 | Ethics, Judaism, Sermon, David Nieto, London, Nature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Manasseh Ben Israel | On Ressurection of the Dead: De la Resurrecion de Los Muertos | Shehakol (2021) | 9781735673769 | Amsterdam | English/ Spanish |  | -Yes Book |
| David Nieto | The Triumphs of Poverty | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2018) | English/ Espanol | English/ Espanol |  | -Yes Book E-book | |
| Isaac Orobio | Philosophical Case in Defence of Divine and Natural Truth | Shehakol Inc (2020) | 1735673706 | Amsterdam, Rabbi, Converso, Portugal | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Marriage Laws and Customs | Ceremonies, Traditions, Minhagim, London | English |  | -Yes Book Link to product | |||
| G.H Whitehill | The Mitsvot: A Guide for Parnassim | Decorum, Gravidade, London, Tefillah, Services, Minhag, Customs, Rite | English |  | -Yes Book Link to product | ||
| Abraham Levy and Lucien Gubbay | Prayers for Use in a House of Mourning and Death and Mourning in Jewish Tradition | Office of the Spiritual Head of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation London | Death, Burial, Life cycle, rituals | English with prayers in Hebrew |  | -Yes Book | |
| Burials and Stone-Setting Book | Heshaim | Life cycle | English with prayers in Hebrew |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Moses Angel | The Law of Sinai and it's Appointed Time | Amazon Digital Services LLC | B07DV152B7 | London, Jewish Free School | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Henry Pereira Mendes | The Jewish Religion Ethically Presented | Independent (2019) | 9781097264056 | Religion, Judaism, Manchester, Shearith Israel | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Online text |
| Josephine Lazarus | The Spirit of Judaism | Wentworth Press (2019) | 9781010197508 | Judaism | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Emily Solis-Cohen | Women in Jewish Law and Life | The Jewish Publication Society | B07QXYBS3M | Religion, Philadelphia | English |  | -No Book |
| Miriam Mendes Belisario | Sabbath Evenings at Home | HardPress (2018) | B07D59W614 | Bevis Marks, London, Jewish ritual | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Charlotte Montefiore | A Few Words to the Jews, by One of Themselves | Nabu Press (2010) | 9781145682801 | London, Jewish Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Sabato Morais | Italian Hebrew Literature | Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1926) | B0000EESBD | JTS, New York, Italian Rabbi, Italian Jews | English |  | -No Book |
| Eliyahu Benamozegh | Israel and Humanity (Classics of Western Spirituality Series) | Paulist Press (1995) | 9780809104608 | Religious Humanism, Livorno, Italy, Sephardi Philosophy, Fez, Morocco | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Eliyahu Benamozegh | Jewish and Christian Ethics | The Perfect Library (2015) | B011F0AZDU | Humanism, Livorno, Italy, Sephardi Philosophy, Fez, Morocco, Christianity, Monotheism | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Samuel Usque | Consolation for Tribulations of Israel | Jewish Publication Society (1977) | 9780827600959 | Italy, Ferrara, Converso | English |  | -No Book |
| Grace Aguilar | Shema Israel: The Spirit of Judaism | Forgotten Books (2012) | B00875KVQS | London, Religious Reform, Bevis Marks, Female | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Grace Aguilar | The Jewish Faith: it's spiritual consolation, moral guidance, and immortal hope | Amazon Digital Services LLC | B01IYM68NI (2016) | London, Religious Reform, Bevis Marks, Female | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Eliyahu Benamozegh | Israel Et L'Humanite: Etude Sur Le Probleme de la Religion Universalle EtSa Solution Por Elie Benamozegh | Al Sadiqin Press (2018) | 9781717571014 | Religious Humanism, Livorno, Italy, Sephardi Philosophy, Fez, Morocco, Noahide | Francais |  | -Yes Book |
| Alessandro Guetta | Filospfia e Qabbalah: Saggio sul pensiero di Elia Benamozegh | Thalassa De Paz (2000) | Religious Humanism, Livorno, Italy, Sephardi Philosophy, Fez, Morocco, Kabbalah | Italiano |  | ||
| Samuel Usque | Consolacao as tribulacoes de Israel | B0000D6F5J | Italiano | -No Book Link to download | |||
| David Nieto | De la providencia. O sea naturaleza universal, o natura naturante. Tradato theologico, dividido en dos dialogos,... Segunda edicion corregida | Shehakol Inc (2020) | B08KWJT6P3 | David Nieto, Theology, Livorno, London | Italiano/Multi-lingual |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| David Nieto | De la Divina Providencia o Naturaleza Universal | Independent (2019) | 9782956185956 | Espanol |  | -No Book Digital | |
| Isaac Orobio | Caso Philosofico en Defensa de la Verdad Divinae ac Naturalis | Shehakol Inc (2002) | BO8HW3TDYY | Amsterdam, Rabbi, Converso, Portugal, Walter Hilliger | Espanol |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yehonatan Elazar-Demota | Minhath Eleazar: Manual de los Ritos Y Costumbres de los Sefaradies Occidentals | Word Wise (2017) | B071DTLMNP | Espanol |  | -Yes Book Digital | |
| Yehonatan Elazar-Demota | Tus Amores son Mejores que el Vino: Guia Matrimonial segun el Rito Sefaradi Occidental | Word Wise (2017) | B071VF24P9 | Espanol |  | -Yes Digital | |
| * רבי עובדיה מברטנורה "משנה" | יש אינסוף פרסומים של פרשנות זו יש פרסום דיגיטלי בחינם מספריה https://www.sefaria.org.il/texts/Mishnah/Commentary/Bartenura |
Table 2: Miqra, Commentary and Sermons
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| שם טוב גאגין | פחד יצחק על התורה: דרשות | מכון אהבת שלום | SKU: 210000033539 | דרשות | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| רבי שלומה שלם | דברי שלמה | פירוש על התורה כולל מדרש אגדות והלכות, צילום דפוס אמשטרדאם | עברית |  | -כן ספר לינק | ||
| משה דויד קסוטו | פירוש על ספר בראשית | מגנס / 1944 | 9652235024 | Genesis, Italian Rabbi | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| משה דויד קסוטו | ספרות מקראית וספרות כנענית | מגנס / 1979 | 9652233161 | מקרא | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| משה דויד קסוטו* | תורה/ נביאים/ כתובים 14 ספרים | יהושע אורנשטין, הוצאת ספרים "יבנה" בע"מ | מקרא | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| אליהו בן אמוזג | אם למקרא | 1862 | פירוש/ מקרא | עברית |  | Link to online text | |
| The 'Livorno Mishnah' stops that aids the student in reciting the text | |||||||
| ליבורנו .משנה | משניות | Mishnaic Hebrew | -No Book | ||||
| As evidenced by the old Mishnayoth printed in years gone by, they include extra indices to help in the recital process which is sung to a melody. There is an example below from Haham Y. Elazar DaMota. | |||||||
| רבי אבנדנה עם אדם בוראל | אמסרדאם. משנה | משניות | Mishnaic Hebrew |  | Available online here Link to video | ||
| מנשה בן ישראל | אמסרדאם. משנה | משניות | Mishnaic Hebrew |  | Link to online copy | ||
| David de Sola Pool (compiled by Rabbi Marc Angel) | Rabbi David de Sola Pool: Selections from six decades of sermons, addresses, and writings | Union Sephardic Congregations (1980) | 9780814807538 | Sermons, Amsterdam, Esnoga | English |  | -No Book |
| Marc Saperstein | Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of New Jews | Hebrew Union College Press (2005) | 9780878204571 | Sermons, Amsterdam, Esnoga | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| George Belasco | The God of Our Fathers and Other Sermons | Ulan Press (2012) | B00B3E73U2 | Montefiore Foundation, Mikra, England | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Moshe Umberto Cassuto | A Commentary on the Book of Genesis: Part 1 - From Adam to Noah; Part 2 - From Noah to Abraham | Magness Press (1961) | B000WSSFRA | Mikra, Commentary, Italy, Rabbi, Livorno | English |  | -No Book |
| Moshe Umberto Cassuto | A Commentary on the Book of Exodus | Publisher's Row/ Varda Books (2005) | 9781590458745 | Mikra, Commentary, Italy, Rabbi, Livorno | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Maurice Gaguine | All the days of my life: Sermons, Essays, Lectures | Zeebra Printing (1994) | 9780952227014 | Sermons etc | English |  | -No Book |
| Isaac Leeser | The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Bible (translated to English with short explanatory notes) | Forgotten Books (2018) | 9780243387199 | Mikra, Commentary, Philadelphia, American Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (updated text by Ilana Kohler) | Parafrasis comentado del Pentateuco | Editora Sefarad (2018) | B07C7M6Q25 (ASIN) | Mikra, commentary, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca | Espanol |  | -Yes Book E-book |
| Rabbi Moses Gaster | Seder, Parasha, Perek, Pisuk and Kissa: A Study of the Divisions of the Tanakh | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) | 9781942184526 | Mikra | English |  | -Yes Book E-book |
| Haham Solomon Gaon | Minhath Shelomo: a commentary on the Book of prayer of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews | Union of Sephardic Congregations (1990) | 9780881253511 | Prayer. Alslo, David de Sola Pool, Moses Gaster, E R Jessurun, Jacob Hadida | English | -No Book | |
| * משה דויד קסוטו: תנ"ך. יש הרבה הדפסים טקטס זה. סיפקתי שתי דוגמאות נוספות. |  הוצאת "יבנה" בע"ם תל אביב / 1984 |  הוצאת "יבנה" בע"ם תל אביב / |
Table 3: History and Synagogues
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| יוסף קפלן | הפזורה הספרדית המערבית | מודן, האוניברסיטה / 1994 | ספרדים, לונדון, ליבורנו, אמשרדם | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| Moses Gaster | History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in England | NP London (1901) Original | 9781331591559 (recent re-print) | Bevis Marks, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Stephen Birmingham | The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite | Open Road Media (2015) | B017APD6WQ | New York, USA | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld | Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (2012) | 9781904113577 | Welfare, Tzedakah, Holland, Seventeenth-Century, Eighteenth-Century | English |  | c |
| David and Tamar de Sola Pool | An Old Faith in the New World: Portrait of Shearith Israel 1654-1954 | Columbia University Press (1955) | B000FH513Y | New York, United States, Synagogue, New Amsterdam | English |  | -No Book |
| Daniel M. Swetschinski | Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization | 9781904113126 | Amsterdam, New Christians, Migration, Economic Life | English |  | -No Book |
| Albert Montefiore Hyamson | The Sephardim of England: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492-1952 | Methuen (1951) | B0000CI2Z2 | London, England, Creechurch Lane, Bevis Marks, Montefiore | English |  | -Yes Book Link to product |
| Aron Di Leone Lioni | The Hebrew Portuguese Nations in Antwerp And London At The Times of Charles V And Henry VIII: New Documents and Interpretations | Ktav Publishing (2005) | 9780881258660 | London, Antwerp | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Miriam Bodian | Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam | Indiana University Press (1999) | 9780253213518 | Amsterdam, Conversos, 17th century, Communal Records, New Christians | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Treasures from the Library of Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos | Berman Hall Jerusalem / Jewish National and University Library (1980) | B006371R6K | Librarian, Amsterdam, Montezinos, bibliography | English |  | -No Book | |
| The following book has many errors and the author doesn't seem to understand the wider Sephardi Judaism and cannot place the Portuguese of France within it. She also doesn't connect the Portuguese to pre-inquisition Spain and the culture of "Convivencia" there or the tradition of combining Torah study with work. She incorrectly refers to Sephardi Judaism as "static" when it was often able to accommodate and understand the changes in the world. She also incorrectly claims that the Portuguese did not learn Talmud, when it is likely that they did with a greater focus on studying Mikra. | |||||||
| Frances Malino | The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France | University of Alabama Press (1978) | 9780817369033 | Bordeaux, France | English |  | -No Book |
| Francesca Bregoli | Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform | Stanford University Press (2014) | B00KTZQ4JC | Livorno, Italy, Jewish Book Awards | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Francesca Trivellato | The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period | Yale University Press (2012) | 9780300187496 | Livorno, Trade routes, Communal Connections, Italy | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yaacob Dwek | The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice (Jews, Christians and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) | Princeton University Press (2011) | 9780691145082 | Venice, Italy, Kabbalah | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Paraira Doornenbal Keppler Knotter Koldeweij Krabbe/ DeRoon/ Smit/ Vlaardingerbroek | The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam | Wbooks (2017) | 9789040007989 | Esnoga, Synagogue, Amsterdam, Holland | English Nederlands |  | -Yes Book English: Link to store Dutch: Link to store |
| The Esnoga: A Monument to Portuguese-Jewish Culture | D'Arts (1991) | 9789090043500 | Amsterdam, Holland | English |  | -No Book | |
| Yosef Kaplan | Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities | Brill (2019) | 9789004367531 | European Sephardim | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yosef Kaplan | An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe | Brill (2000) | 9789004117426 | European Sephardim, Modernity | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Rabbi Marc D. Angel | Remnant of Israel: A Portrait of America's First Jewish Community | Riverside Books Co (2004) | 9781878351623 | Shearith Israel, New York, New Amsterdam, Synagogue, United States | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Richard David Barnett and Abraham Levy | The Bevis Marks Synagogue | University Press, Oxford, (1970) | B002IXTV3E (ASIN) | London, Bevis Marks, Synagogue | English |  | -No Book |
| Isaac S. Emmanuel | Precious Stones of the Jews of Curacao: Curacaon Jewry 1656-1957 | Bloch (1957) | Mikveh Israel, Curacao | English |  | -No Book | |
| Richard David Barnett and Phillip Wright | The Jews of Jamaica: Tombstone Inscriptions 1663-1880 | Ben Tzvi Institute (1997) | 9789652350688 | Jamaica, Caribbean, Tombstones, Names | English |  | -No Book |
| Mordechai Arbell | The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica | University of the West Indies Press (2010) | 9789768125699 | Jamaica, Caribbean, Sha'are Shalom, Kingston | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Jacob A.P.M. Andrade | A Record of the Jews in Jamaica form the English Conquest to the Present Time | Jamaica Times Ltd (1941) | B0007J8P24 | Jamaica, Caribbean, Sha'are Shalom, Kingston | English |  | -No Book |
| Judah M.Cohen | Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S Virgin Islands | Brandeis University Press (2012) | 9781611683097 | St.Thomas, Caribbean | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Richard David Barnett | The Sephardi Heritage: Essays on the History and Cultural Contribution of the Jews of Spain and Portugal Vol I. | KTAV Publishing House, NY (1971) | B00LICRCPK | Spain, Portugal, Essays, Culture, History | English | -No Book | |
| Richard David Barnett | The Sephardi Heritage (Vol II): The Western Sephardim | Gibraltar Publishing (1989) | 9780948466113 | Western Sephardim, Culture, Practices | English |  | -No Book |
| Peter Mark, Jose da Silva Horta | The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World | Cambridge University Press (2011) | B004V9O7N2 | Portuguese Sephardim, West Africa | English |  | Yes -Book -Digital |
| Findanque/ Lima/ Sasso/ Perkins/ Melamed | Kol Shearith Israel: Cien Anos de Vida Judia en Panama 1876-1976/ A Hundred Years of Jewish Life in Panama 1876-1976 | Igmar (1977) | History | Espanol |  | -No Book | |
| Louis Francia de Beaufleury | Histoire de l'establissement des Juifs a Bordeaux et a Bayonne depuis 1550 | Harriet (1985) | 9782904348143 | Bordeaux, Bayonne, France | Francais |  | -Yes Book |
| Yosef Kaplan | Les nouveaux-juifs d'Amsterdam: Essais sur l'histoire sociale et intellectuelle du judaisme sefarade au XIIe siecle | Chandeigne (1999) | 9782906462618 | Sephardim, Amsterdam | Francais |  | -No Book |
| Isidoro Kahn, Dora Liscia Bemporad | Itinerari di vita: la nazione ebrea di Livorno | Ed. Graphe Arts (1991) | Livorno, Italy | Italiano |  | -Yes Book | |
| Aron Di Leone Leoni | La Nazione Ebraica Spagnola e Portoghesedi Ferrara (1492-1559) | Olschki (2011) | 9788822260055 | Ferrara, Livorno, Italy | Italiano |  | -Yes Book Link to product |
| Michele Luzzatti and L.Lovitch | Ebrei ed ebraismo a Pisa. Un millenio di ininterrotta presenza- Jews and Judaism in Pisa. A Millennium of Uninterrupted Presence. | Ets (2005) | 9788846712448 | Italy, Pisa | Italiano |  | -No Book |
| D. H. De Castro | De Synagoge Der Portugee-Israelietische Gemeente Te Amsterdam | Amsterdam (1950) | Amsterdam, Esnoga | Nederlands |  | -Yes Book Link to bib data | |
| Saul Van Messel | Den Tempel Der Jooden Tot Amsterdam | Ets Haim (1947) | Amsterdam, Esnoga | Nederlands |  | -No Book | |
Table 4: Grace After Meals, Haggadot, Prayer Books and Other Guides
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print? |
| Rabbi Jonathan Cohen | The Sephardi Haggadah and laws of Pesah and the Seder | Feldheim Publisher's (1998) | 9780873064606 | Pesah, Pesach, Seder, Haggadah | English, עברית |  | -No Book |
| Pesah, Pesach, Seder, Haggadah | English, עברית |  | -Yes Book Link to product | ||||
| David de Sola Pool | Grace After Meals According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews | Union of Sephardic Congregations (1979) | B003IVEMDY | Bircon, Birconim, Shabbat, Grace After Meals, David de Sola Pool, Shearith Israel | English, עברית |  | -Yes Booklet Order from Shearith Israel |
| Dayan Pinchas Toledano | Home Ceremonies, According to Sephardi Usage | London (1996) | B00C8OS3UK | Grace After Meals, Songs | English, עברית |  | -No Book Not strictly S&P |
| Edited by Rabbi Marc Angel | Sephardic Grace After Meals (S&P plus the rite of Ottoman Sephardim) | KTAV Publishing (2003) | 9780881258202 | Grace After Meals, Songs | English, עברית |  | -Yes Book |
| Heshaim | Home Cermonies | Heshaim(2022) | Grace After Meals, Other Home Rituals, Songs | English, עברית | -Yes Book Link to Heshaim | ||
| Rabbi Jonathan Cohen | Bircon and blessings | App for Android and iOS | Birkat Hamazon / Food Blessings / Sheva Berachot / Tefillat Haderech / Short, rhyming Birkat Hamazon from a 17th Century Dutch prayer book and Bendigamos. | עברית |  | Download here: Link to app | |
| Rabbi Jonathan Cohen | Bircat HaMazon ברכת המזון | (2009) | Bircon | עברית |  | -No Booklet | |
| The French Tefilot can be purcahsed at the following address: רחוב רמב"ם 24, תל אביב. 24 / Rambam Street, Tel Aviv, Israel 65813. Tel/Fax: 035163672 Email: sinaipub@zahav.net.il | |||||||
| סדר התפילות Livres De Prieres. A L'Usage du rite Sefardi | Sinai, Tel Aviv (2011) הוצאת ספרים "סיני" תל-אביב | BORDEAUX POCKET PRAYER BOOK | עברית Francais |  | |||
| סדר התפילות Livres De Prieres. A L'Usage du rite Sefardi | Sinai, Tel Aviv (2011) הוצאת ספרים "סיני" תל-אביב | BORDEAUX REGULAR SIZE PRAYER BOOK | עברית Francais | ||||
| Shop of the Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam, Mr. Visserplein 3, 1011 RD Amsterdam, Netherlands Tel: +31 20 531 0380 / Koren, 33 General Pierre Koenig Street, Jerusalem 91040 (טל)Tel : 0286330530 קורן, 3 רחוב פייר קניג, ירושלים 91040 / Pomeranz, 5 Be'eri Street, Jerusalem (טל)Tel: 02623555 פומרנץ, רחוב בארי 3, ירושלים | |||||||
| חמישה חומשי תורה ותפילות לשבת: כמנהג ק"ק תלמוד תורה אמשטרדם | Koren (2017) הוצאת קורן ירושלים | AMSTERDAM SHABBAT PRAYER BOOK | Hebrew (with Dutch and English instructions) |  | |||
| אברהם כהן, בן-ציון 23, ירושלים, טל: 026514441 או 0522408924, דוא"ל: avrahamc@gmail.com / Manny's, Khavakuk Street 2, Jerusalem Tel: 026337040 חבקוק 2, ירושלים, ישראל 91058 | |||||||
| תפילת החודש / ליוורנו : עם תוספות קלות | ארז הוצאה לאור | LIVORNO WEEKLY PRAYER BOOK | עברית |  | |||
| Rabbi David de Sola Pool | Daily and Sabbath Book | NEW YORK POCKET SIZE | Hebrew (with English translation) |  | -Yes Book Link to store | ||
| Rabbi David de Sola Pool | Daily and Sabbath Book | NEW YORK REGULAR SIZE | Hebrew (with English translation) |  | -Yes Book Link to store | ||
| Daily and Sabbath Prayers | LONDON | Hebrew (with English translation) |  | -Yes Book Link to store | |||
| Shabbat Prayers | LONDON HARDBACK (STANDARD) | Hebrew (with English translation) |  | -Yes Book Link to store | |||
| Shabbat Prayers | LONDON ENHANCED EDITION (HARDBACK) | Hebrew (with English translation) |  | -Yes Book Link to store | |||
| Haham Solomon Gaon | Minhath Shelomo: a commentaryon the book of prayer of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews | Union of Sephardic Congregations (1990) | 9780881253511 | COMMENTARY | Hebrew/English | -No Book | |
Table 5: Biographies and Memoirs
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| ראובן בונפיל | משה דויד קאסוטו | הוצאת ספרים ע"ס י"ל מגנוסת האוניברסיטה העברית ? / 2007 | 9789654933070 | איטליה | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| יוסף קפלן | מנצרות ליהדות: חייו ופעלו של הענוס יצחק אורוביו די קאסטרו | מאגנס / 2003 | 45-005927 | פורטוגל, אמשטרדם | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| Abraham Levy with Simon Rocker | A Rocky Road | Halban Publishers (2017) | 9781905559817 | Gibraltar, Lauderdale Road, Rabbi, London, England | English |  | -Yes Book |
| This book is likely to problematic having been translated by an outsider to the community who may not fully understanding the way of thinking and conveying of ideas that are found in the original text. | |||||||
| David Nieto with translation from Meir Levin | The Rabbi's Advocate: Chacham David Nieto and the Second Kuzari | Yasher Books Inc (2007) | 9781933143163 | London, Italy, Livorno, Bevis Marks | English |  | -No Book |
| Israel Solomons | David Nieto: Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation Kahal Kados Asar Asamaim | Jewish Histroical Society of England/ Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co, Ltd. (1931) | London, Italy, Livorno, Bevis Marks | English |  | -No Book | |
| Arthur Kiron | Dust and Ashes: The Funeral and Forgetting of Sabato Morais | University of Pennsylvania (1996) | Livorno, London, Philadelphia, Religious Humanism, Italy | English | -No Book Link to text | ||
| David de Sola Pool | H. Pereira Mendes: A Biography | s.n (1938) | New York, Birmingham, Jewish Theological Society, Yeshiva Isaac Elchanan | English |  | -No Book | |
| Abigail Green | Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero | Belknap Press (2010) | London, Bevis Marks, Philanthropy, Judith Montefiore, Jerusalem, Israel | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | |
| George Collard | Moses, the Victorian Jew | Kensal Press (1990) | 9780946041572 | Jerusalem, Philanthropy, Bevis Marks | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Edited Louis Loewe | Diary of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore | The Jewish Historical Society of England (1983) | B000H459WS | Judith Montefiore, Bevis Marks, Damascus Affair, Philanthropy, Ramsgate | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Myrtle Franklin & Michael Bor | Sir Moses Montefiore 1784-1895 | Vanguard Press (1985) | 9780814909027 | English |  | -No Book | |
| Yaacob Dwek | Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas | Princeton University Press (2019) | 9780691183572 | Amsterdam, London, Rabbi, Controversy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yosef Kaplan | From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro | Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation (2004) | 9781904113140 | Amsterdam, Portugal, Inquisition | English |  | -No Book |
| Benjamin Cardozo and A.L. Sainer | Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo | The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (1999) | 9781584770107 | Shearith Israel, New York | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Michael Freedland | Man on the Rock: Mayor Solomon Levy and the Jews of Gibraltar | Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd | 9780853039976 | Gibraltar, United Kingdom, Spain, Queen, Carmel College | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Mark R. Cohen | The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi. Leon Modena's Life of Judah. | Princeton University Press (1988) | 9780691008240 | Venice, Italy, Jewish Family Life, Ghetto | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Moises Orfali | Isaac Aboab da Fonseca: Jewish Leadership in the New World | Sussex Academic Press (2014) | 978-1845193546 | Amsterdam, Recife, Brazil, New World, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Emily Hahn | Aboab: The First Rabbi of the America's | Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy (1959) | B0007E7HUA (ASIN) | Amsterdam, Recife, Brazil, New World, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca | English |  | -No Book |
| Esther Schor | Emma Lazarus | Schoken (2017) | 9780805211665 | Emma Lazarus, Shearith Israel, New York, Beth Olam Cemetary | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Josephine Lazarus | Emma Lazarus | Cosimo Classics (2020) | 9781646790005 | Moses and Esther Lazarus, New York, Shearith Israel | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Bette Roth Young | Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters | Jewish Publication Society (1995) | 9780827605169 | Emma Lazarus, Shearith Israel, New York, Beth Olam Cemetary | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Lance J.Sussman | Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism | Wayne State University Press (1995) | 9780814319963 | American Judaism, American Jewish History, The Occident, Publishing, Philadelphia | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Whynn Weldon | The Fighting Jew: The Life and Times of Daniel Mendoza, Champion Boxer | Amberley Publishing (2019) | 9781445685731 | East End, Sport, Bevis Marks | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Cecil Roth | A Life of Menasseh Ben Israel: Rabbi, Printer and Diplomat | Jewish Publication Society of America (1945) | Rabbi, Amsterdam, Oliver Cromwell | English |  | -No Book | |
| Edited by Yosef Kaplan, H. Mechoulan, R.H. Popkin | Menasseh Ben Israel and His World | Brill (1989) | 9789004091146 | Rabbi, Amsterdam | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Steven Nadler | Menasseh Ben Israel | Yale University Press (2018) | 9780300224108 | Amsterdam, Cromwell, Re-admission, London, Amsterdam | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Helen M.Davies | Emile & Isaac Pereire: Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France | Manchester University Press (2016) | B07WDL49LJ | France, Bayonne, Financing | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Uriel Acosta | Uriel Acosta: A Specimen of Human Life An Autobiography | Bergman Publishers (1967) | Amsterdam, Converso, Excommunication | English |  | -No Book | |
| Victor Perera | The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey | Knopf (1995) | 9780394583518 | France, Bordeaux, Toledo | English |  | -No Book |
| Dianne Ashton | Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America | Wayne State University Press (2015) | B00TSU0KN0 | United States, Philadelphia, Philanthropy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yosef Haim Yerushalmi | From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto Isaac Cardoso: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics | Columbia University Press (1971) | 9780231032865 | Conversos | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yosef Haim Yerushalmi | De La Cour d'Espagne au ghetto italien: Isaac Cardoso et le marranisme au XIIe siecle | Fayard (2014) | B00TAVR1DE | Francais |  | -Yes Book Digital | |
| Joseph Penso de la Vega | Le creacion de un perfil cultural y literario entre Amsterdam y Livorno | Olschki (2019) | 9788822266651 | Biography | Italiano |  | -Yes Book |
| Dr. Jaap Meijer | Isaac Da Costa's Weg Naar Het Christendom | Joachimsthal's (1946) | Nederlands |  | -No Book | ||
| Isaac Aboab da Fonseca | Bandeirantes Espirituais Do Brasil: Rabinos Isaac Aboab da Fonseca E Mosseh Rephael D'Aguilar : Seculo XVII | Maayanot (2004) | 9788585512743 | Brasil, Brazil, Isaac Aboab Da Fonseca, Mosseh Rephael D'Aguilar | Portugues (Brazilian) |  | -Yes Book |
Table 6: Music
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | Availability |
| Emmanuel Aguilar, D. A. De Sola | The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews | Kessinger Publishing (2010) | 9781166019518 | Liturgy, Rite, London | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Abraham Lopes-Cardozo | Sephardic Songs of Praise | Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation (1997) | 9781495051098 | Amsterdam, New York, Melodies, Shabbat Table Singing, Hazzanut | English |  | -No Book/ Cassette |
| Abraham Lopes-Cardozo | Selected Sephardic Chants | Tara Publications (1991) | 9780933676268 | Melodies | English |  | -No Book |
| Abraham Lopes-Cardozo | Music of the Sephardim | Herzl Press (1960) | B0047AGM2E | Amsterdam, New York, Melodies, Shabbat Table Singing, Hazzanut | English |  | -No Book |
| M.M Rodrigues Pereira | חכמת שלמה: Torah Cantillations According to The Spanish and Portuguese Custom | (1994) | 0933676379 | Hazzanut, Ta'amim, Music, Amsterdam | English |  | -No Book Link to online edition |
| Herve Roten | Les traditions musicales judeo-portugaises en France | Maisonneuve et Larose (2000) | 9782706813795 | Bordeuax, Chazzanut, Muisc, France | Francais |  | -Yes Book |
| Peter Nahon | Le Rite Portugais a Bordeaux d'Apres Son Seder Hazanut: Etude Ethnophilographique Et Edition Des Ordres Des Prieres de 1870-19871 | Libraire Orientaliste Paul Geuthner (2018) | 9782705339883 | Bordeaux, Hazanut, France, Rite | Francais |  | -Yes Book |
| Leon Gilbert | Manuel d'etude et d'application de la liturgie hebraique du rite Sefardi dit Portugais | Bordeaux, Hazzanut, France, Rite | Francais |  | -Yes Book Digital Link to online text | ||
| Salomon Foy | Recueil des Chants Hebraiques anciens et modernes du rite Sefardi, dit Portugais | Consistoire Israelite dela Gironde (1928) | Joseph Cohen, Gironde, Bordeaux, Hazzanut, Rite | Francais |  | -Yes Book Digital |
Table 7: Fiction, Poetry, Home and Miscellaneous
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Topic | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| Lady Judith Cohen Montefiore | The Jewish Manual: Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette | Amazon Media EU | B0084BSSBU | Cookery | Jewish home, London, Moses Montefiore, Culture, Cooking | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Emma Lazarus | The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic: 1 | Dover Publications Inc (2015) | 9780486786421 | Poetry | The New Colossus, Statue of Liberty, New York, Moses Lazarus | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Emma Lazarus | The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2: Jewish Poems and Translations: 2 | Dover Publications (2015) | 9780486786438 | Poetry | New York, Jewish poetry, Moses Lazarus, Shearith Israel | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Grace Aguilar (edited by Michael Galchinsky) | Selected Writings | Broadview Press (2003) | 9781551113777 | Fiction | London, Bevis Marks, Woman Author, Victorian England | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Grace Aguilar | Home Influence: A Tale for Mother's and Daughter's. A Mother's Recompense. | Timeless Wisdom Collection (2016) | 9781533569349 | Fiction | London, Victorian England, women, morality, England | English |  | -Yes Book E-Book |
| Grace Aguilar | The Vale of Cedars; Or the Martyr | Independent (2019) | 9781793977366 | Fiction | Inquisition, Spain, Christianity, Victorian England | English |  | -Yes Book E-book |
| Isaac Harby | A Selection from the Miscellaneous Writing's of the Late Isaac Harby, Esq | James S.Burges (1829) | B0008B7PWC | Political Essays/Criticisms | Charleston, America | English |  | -No Book Digital Link to online text |
| Benjamin D'Israeli | The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches | Endymion (2019) | 9781011539529 | Mix of Fiction-Non-Fiction | London, Prime Minister, Convert to Christianity, Lauderdale Road | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Joseph Penso de la Vega | Confusion de Confusiones | Martino Fine Books (2013) | 9781614274513 | Economica | Amsterdam, Stock Exchange | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Benjamin N. Cardozo | The Nature of the Judicial Process | Dover Publications (2012) | B00A44CDSE | Law | American Law, New York, Shearith Israel | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Benjamin N. Cardozo | The Growth of the Law | Amazon (2020) | B0852R1866 | Law | American Law, New York, Shearith Israel | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Christophe Duvvier and Josef Helfenstein | Camille Pissarro: The Study of Modernism | Prestel (2021) | 9783791378275 | Art | Carribean, France | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Jitschak Pimentel | Woordenboek Hebreeuws-Nederlands | Strengholt United Media (1900) 1st print | 9789060103227 | Dictionary | Holland | Nederlands |  | -Yes Book Updated edition by Dr. Menachem Bolle is in print |
Table 8: Other Books about Judaism with Significant Mention of the S&P
| Author | Title | Publisher | ISBN/ASIN | Subject | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| עורכות רות פורטר, שרה הראל-חושן | ממזרח ועד סוף מערב: יהודי ספרד 1492-1992 | ההוצאה לאור / 1992 | 9650506535 | פאן-ספרדי, צפון אפריקה, בלקן, הספרדים ופורטוגזים | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| מיכאל אביטבול | הפזורה היהודית הסרדית אחרי הגירוש | מרכז זלמן שזר לתולדות ישראל / 1992 | יהדות ספרד | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| ראובן בונפיל | במראה כסופה: חיי היהודים באיטליה בימי הרינסאנס | מרכז זלמן שזר לתולדות ישראל / 1994 | יהודי איטליה | עברית |  | ||
| Lucien Gubbay, Israel Elia | Our Glorious Tradition: The Religion, History and Culture of the Jewish People | Chroniclers (2007) | 9780952700630 | Judaism/Includes information on the Spanish and Portuguese | English | -No Book | |
| Lucien Gubbay, Abraham Levy | The Sephardim: Their Glorious Traditions from the Babylonian Exile to the Present Day | Carnell (1992) | 9781857790367 | Pan-Sephardic book with lots of information about the Spanish and Portuguese | English |  | -No Book |
| The following book is problematic in that it often misses some important content, but also because sometimes the author has seen a foreign practise introduced to the community and uses that as the minhag rather than researching the actual practise. | |||||||
| Herbert C. Dobrinsky | A Treasury of Sephardic Laws and Customs | Ktav Publishers and Distributors Inc. (1986) | 9870881250312 | Minhagim, Customs, Halacha, History, Syria, North Africa, Balkans | English |  | -No Book . |
| Roberta Curiel and Bernard Dov Cooper | The Venetian Ghetto (Also published as "The Ghetto of Venice") | Rizzoli (1990) | 9780847812363 | Venice, Ghetto, Italy | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Isaac S.Emmanuel, Susan A. Emmanuel | History of the Jews of the Antilles Netherlands, 2 Vols | American Jewish Archives (1970) | Aruba, Curacao | English |  | -No Book | |
| Elio Toaff | Studi sull'Ebraismo Italiano | Barulli (1974) | Italian Judaism | Italiano |  | -No Book | |
Table 8.1 Other S&P Items
| Item | Image | Details |
| Silk Tallet |  | |
| Amsterdam Synagogue Tile |  |
Table 9: Discography
| Author | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Picture | In Print? |
| Adam Musikant/Various Artists | A Sephardi Celebration- The Choir of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation London | B01AXLH9S6 |  | -Yes CD Link to product | |
| Various Artists | Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue | Smithsonian Folkways |  | -Yes CD/ Digital Link to product | |
| Daniel Halfon | Kamti Lehallel- The Musical Tradition of The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Communities of Amsterdam, London and New York | Beit Hatfutsot |  | -Yes CD Link to product | |
| Daniel Halfon | Shabbat Zemirot in the Spanish and Portuguese Tradition | Self published (2021) |  | -Yes Digital Link- Spotify | |
| Avraham Morris with the Rinah Ensemble | Et Sha'are Ratson (£15. Available from Rev. Maurice: philip.maurice613@gmail.com) | Self published (2020) |  | -Yes CD | |
| The Service of 1956 (edited by Rabbi Jonathan Coen) | 300th Anniversary | Kunaki |  | -No CD Link to product | |
| Various Artists | Musiques De La Synagogue De Bordeaux | Institut Europeen des Musiques Juives | B01KARDC6C |  | -Yes CD Digital Link to product |
| Various Artists | Musiques Judeo-Francaises: Judeo French Liturgy of the 18th and 19th Century |  | -Yes CD Digital Link to product | ||
| Leon Hyman, Rabbi Ira Rhode and Various Artists | Choral Music of Congregation Shearith Israel | Urim Publications |  | -Yes CD Link to product Link to SI store | |
| Rabbi David de Sola Pool, Rabbi Abraham Lopez Cardozo, Louis C. Gerstein and Various Artists | Historic Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue |  | -Yes CD (set of 3) Link to SI store | ||
| Rabbi Abraham Lopes Cardozo | Sephardic Songs of Praise |  | -No Cassette -Yes Digital Link to MP3 | ||
| Rabbi Abraham Lopes Cardozo | The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition | Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | AMTI 0401 |  | -Yes CD with booklet Link to product |
| Various Artists | Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikve Israel Synagogue in Curacao | Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | AMTI 0901 |  | -Yes CD with booklet Link to product |
| Various Artists | Santo Servicio | Prisma Films (2013) |  | -Yes CD/DVD Buy at Syangogue | |
| Various Artists | Livorno | Musicnet |  | -Yes CD Buy at Synagogue | |
| Various Artists | Singing Dew/ Rugiade di Canti/ טלי זמרה | Beth Hatefusot (2002) | BA0000CAPRS |  | -Yes CD Link to product |
A number of melodies can also be found on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5b2IQHDzhXmM4okkdXXrhi They can be found with names such Ira Rhodes, Leon Hyman and Henry Pereira Mendes
Pan-Sephardic Bibliography
PAN-SEPHARDIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography on this page will deal with the intellectual works of the wider Sephardi world including important works about Sephardim and title's with a similar outlook.
| Table 1 | Pre-Inquisition Spain and Spanish Born Hahamim (and related titles) |
| Table 1.1 | Italy |
| Tabke 2 | Conversos |
| Table 3 | Balkans / South-Eastern Europe |
| Table 4 | Middle East & Israel |
| Table 4.1 | India & Asia |
| Table 5 | Literary Compilations |
| Table 6 | North Africa |
| Table 7 | Ashkenazi Writer's |
Table 1: Pre-Inquisition Spain and Spanish Born Hahamim (and related titles)
This first table looks back to the Iberian peninsula and those writer's, many of them rabbis who were born there. The Jewish experience of Spain is often referred to as the Golden Age of Spain, a lengthy period of time which started to decline with the increased Catholic takeover of the peninsula and coming to a close with the edict of expulsion in 1492. This Golden Age has been contested by a number of Catholic apologists and non-Sephardic Jews whose ideas have unfortunately seeped into our communities.
There were different schools of thought in Medieval Spain, including a school of thought introduced by the Franco-German rabbis and their students including Nachmanides and the ROSH. Eye witness accounts to the events in Spain claim that this school of thought undermined the Jewish community, especially with the use of PILPUL, which triggered division, a decline in scholarship, the use of practises forbidden by the Talmud and the beginning of the Converso phenomenon. This is documented in Jose Faur's book 'In the Shadow of History: Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity'. The following quote, describing the situation in Spain is from his book 'The Horizontal Society':
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print |
| יצחק קנפנטון | דרכי התלמוד | 1400-1460 מוסד הרב קוק / המהדרות האחרונה | ספרדי תלמוד. ספר זה מלמד כיצד ללמוד התלמוד בדרך הספרדית | עברית |  | כן -ספר Link to online text | |
| הרמב"ם | משנה תורה | 1180 (?) | הלכה | עברית |  | כן -ספר | |
| יואל קראמר | הרמב"ם | רסלינג / 2019 | ספרדת רמ"בם, מדעת ביוגרפיה | עברית |  | כן -ספר | |
| יהודה הלוי | שירים נבחרים | הוצאת שוקן / 1981 | פיזמונים | עברית |  | -לא ספר | |
| יואל מרציאנו | חכמי ספרד בעין הסערה: תורה והנהגה במוצאי ימי הביניים | מוסד ביאליק | 9789655362664 | הלכה, חינוך | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| יהודה הלוי | הכוזרי | ידיות אהרונות /2008 | 9789654825481 | פילוסופיה | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| אברהם בן הרמב"ם | מלחמות השם | מוסד הרב קוק | יהדות | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| חיים שירמן | תולדות השירה העברית בספרד המוסלמית | מאגנס /1995 | 9652239143 | שירה | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| Yitzhak Abarbanel | Commentary of Abarbanel on the Torah: Bereshit | Create Space Independent Publishing Platform (2016) | 9781533286314 | Torah | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Solomon Gaon | The Influence of the Catholic Theologian Alfonso Tostado on the Pentateuch Commentary of Isaac Abravenal | Ktav Publishers (1993) | 9780881254389 | Commentary | English |  | -No Book |
| Gershon D.Cohen | Sefer Ha-Qabbalah: The Book of Tradition by Abraham Ibn Daud | The Jewish Publication Society (03/2010) | 9780827609167 | Spain, Cordova | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Raphael Loewe | Ibn Gabirol (Jewish Thinkers) | Grove Press (05/1991) | 9780802132543 | English |  | -Yes Book | |
| Maria Rosa Menocal | The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain | Back Bay Books (2003) | 9780316168717 | Al-Andalus, Spain, Convivencia, Umayyads | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Jerrilynn Dodds, Maria Rosa Menocal, Abigail Krasner Balbale | The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture | Yale University Press (2009) | 9780300142143 | Al-Andalus, Convivencia, Co-existence, Education | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Maria Menocal | The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History | University of Pennsylvania Press (1990) | 97808122132249 | Literary Heritage, Arab culture | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Sarah Stroumsa | Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History In Islamic Spain | Princeton University Press (2019) | B07SSHPTFK | Andalusian Culture | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Elie Kedourie | Spain and the Jews: Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After | Thames & Hudson Ltd (1992) | 9780500251133 | History | English |  | -No Book |
| Mann, Glick, Dodds (Editors) | Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain | George Brazillier Inc (2007) | 9780807612866 | Convivencia | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yehuda HaLevi | The Kuzari: An Argument for the Faith of Israel | Schocken (1987 edition) | 9780805200751 | Northern Spain | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Jesus Palaez del Rosal | The Jews in Cordoba (X-XII centuries) | Ediciones El Almendro (1987) | 9788486077488 | History | English |  | -No Book |
| Bahya ibn Paquda | Duties of the Heart | CreateSpace Independent Platform (2018) | 9781984095008 | Spain, Saragossa | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Moses Maimonides | Mishneh Torah | Moznaim Pub Corp (2010) | 9781885220691 | Jewish law | English- עברית |  | -Yes Book |
| Moses Maimonides (Rambam) | Guide for the Perplexed | Empire Books (2011) | 9781619492387 | Rambam, Science, Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Jose Faur | Homo Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonide's Guide to the Perplexed | Syracuse University Press (1999) | 9780815627814 | Rambam, Science, Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Joel Kramer | Maimonide's: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds | Gildan Media, LLC (2009) | 9780385512008 | Rambam | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | Maimonides | Farrar, Strauss, Giroux (1983) | 9780374517595 | Rambam | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Herbert A. Davidson | Moses Maimonides: The Man and his Works | B005DKR4EW | 9780195173215 | Rambam | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Sarah Stroumsa | Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker | Princeton University Press (2011) | 9780691152523 | Rambam | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yom Tov Assis | The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry: Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327 | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization | 9781874774044 | Aragon, Sepharad, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Judah Alharizi | Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (2001) | 9781874774037 | Iberian verse | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Peter Cole | The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 | Princeton University Press (2007) | 9780691121956 | Al-Andalus, Poetry, Pizmonim, Medieval Spain, Convivencia, Hebrew Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Solomon Ibn Gabirol | The Fountain of Life (Fons Vitae) | Azafran Books (2017) | 9780995727953 | Malaga, Andaluscian, poet | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Samuel Morell | Studies in the Judicial Methodology of Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra | UPA (2003) | 9780761827078 | Rabbinic thought | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Santob de Carrion | The Moral Proverbs of Santob de Carrion | Princeton University Press (2016) | 9780691632707 | Prose | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Matt Goldish | Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period | Princeton University Press (2008) | B005646F1S | Post-expulsion, Halacha | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Ross Brann | The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain | Hopkins University Press (1991) | 9780801840739 | Convivencia, Arts, History | English |  | -No Book |
| Ross Brann | Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism | University of Pennsylvania Press (2021) | B08N464CQK | Modalities of "Old Spain" | English |  | Yes Book Digital |
| Salma Khadra Jayyusi | The Legacy of Muslim Spain (2 vols) | Brill (1994) | 9789004099549 | Covivencia, Ummayads, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Haim Beinhart | The Sephardi Legacy (Vol.1) | Hebrew University/Magnus Press (1992) | 9789652238009 | Spain, Expulsion, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Abraham Newman | The Jews in Spain: Their Social, Political and Cultural Life During the Middle Ages (2 Vols) | Jewish Publication Society (1942) | History | English |  | -No Book | |
| Solomon Ibn Verga | A Historian in Exile: Solomon Ibn Verga, Shevet Yehuda, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter | University of Pennsylvania Press (2016) | 9780812248586 | History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Abraham Zacuto | The Book of Lineage: or Sefer Yohassin | Zacuto Foundation (2005) | B0031ER1A4 | Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela | The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2017) | 9781544708386 | History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | Maimonides | Muchnik Editores | Biography | Espanol |  | -No Book | |
| Abraham Zacuto | Sefer Yohassin: El libro de las Generaciones, Cabal y Genealogia | Independently Published (2001) | 9798769881954 | Jewish History | Espanol |  | -Yes Book |
| Maria Rosa Menocal | La Joya Del Mundo: Musulmanes, Judios Y Cristianos, Y La Cultura De La Tolerancia | Plaza Janes (2003) | 8401530652 | Al-Andalus, Spain, Convivencia, Ummayads, History | Espanol |  | -Yes Book |
| Joel Kraemer | Maimonides: Vida y ensenanzas del gran filosofo judio | Editorial Kairos (2012) | 9788472457539 | Rambam, Biography | Espanol |  | -Yes Book |
| Santob de Carrion | Proverbios Morales | Cambridge University Press (2011) | 9780521131445 | Prose | Espanol |  | -Yes Book |
| Solomon Ibn Verga | Shevet Yehuda: Vara de Luda | Independently Published (2021) | 9798511150024 | Espanol |  | -Yes Book | |
Table 1.1 Italy
Italy is sometimes a difficult community to define, being home to it's own Romanite community, Sephardi community, Ashkenazi and Eastern, it's often hard to place Italian Jews into one category. Hopefully this section will resolve this.
| Name | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Keywords | Language | Image | In-Print |
| Immanuel HaRomi | The Language of Machbarot of Immanuel Haromi- לשון מחברות עמנואל | Dov Jarden (1954) | B00PR9LG2U | איטליה, פיזמונים | עברית |  | -לא ספר |
| רחל מורפורגו | עוגב רחל : ספר כולל שירים ואגדות ומכתבים שונים | י.ח. קסטילינו 1890 / המקורי | משורר | עברית |  | -לא ספר Hebrew Books | |
| Sara Copia Sullam | Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Works of Sara Copia Sulam in Verse and Prose, Along with Writings of Her Contemporari | University of Chicago Press (2009) | B01DHERWGU | Italy, Venice, Poetry | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Sara Copia Sullam | La bella ebrea: Sara Copio Sullam, poetessa nel ghetto di Venezia del '600 | 9788871581118 | Italy, Venice, Poetry | Italiano |  | -No Book | |
| Primo Levi | If This is a Man/ The Truce | Abacus (1991) | 9780349100135 | Biography, Holocaust | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audiobook |
| Primo Levi | The Periodic Table | Penguin (2000) | 9780141185149 | General Biography | English |  | -Yes Book Audiobook CD |
| Primo Levi | The Complete Works | Penguin Classics (2015) | 9780713999563 | Literature, Biography | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Dante Lattes | Apologia del hebraismo | Editorial Maxtor (2014) | 9788490014134 | Italian Judaism/Modernity | Espanol |  | -Yes Book |
| Joseph Almanzi | Catalogue de Biblioteque De Litterature Hebraique Et Orientale | Kessinger Publishing (2010) | 9781167274114 | Bibliographjy | Fraincaise |  | -Yes Book |
Table 2: Conversos
The Spanish Inquisition wreaked havoc on the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula starting in 1492. There is a growing trend today to deny the heritage of people descended from Iberian Converos, people forced to convert to Catholicism, first in Spain and later in Portugal. Whilst there may be a number of people whose perceived sense of heritage is mistaken, there are many individuals who descend from the forcibly converted, especially in Central and South America. A school of thought has emerged that insists that anyone who was forcibly converted in 1492 was no longer Jewish. This idea was not held by the Sephardic rabbis of the time or of later generations and they wrote precise halacha on how to deal with the situation of forced conversions. Rabbi Jose Faur's own research into the matter, includes eye witness accounts to events in Spain prior to the inquisition and includes a look at the intellectual works created by Conversos that were designed to covertly challenge the dry and oppressive atmosphere of their new Catholic environment.
There is another school of thought that claims the Converso's were willing converts. This is based on the fact that Sephardim acculturated to their environment and were able to remain observant Jews whilst being part of the surrounding milieu. In contradiction to Ashkenazi Judaism which was hermetic in nature, Sephardim were able to easily blend their own traditions with the local surroundings often leading to accusations of inauthenticity and willing assimilation. The failure to understand the Sephardi way of living, lack of knowledge of the intellectual works created by Conversos and their eye witness accounts of the horrors of the inquisition combined with ignorance to the Sephardi rabbis own teachings has created an environment in which the Conversos have come under attack.
Recent Jewish trends to deny the more positive Jewish experience of Islam and to join with right-wing Christians over issues related to Western thought and Zionism, has led some to claim that the inquisition was a good thing, keeping Europe tolerant! On another front there are messianic Zionists who have very inflated numbers of people they consider to be Conversos and "lost Jews" who they hope to convert and bring to Israel in the demographic war with the Arabs or to use as a kind of diplomatic "fact on the ground" abroad. These Conversos, whether they have Jewish heritage or not, are converted to a type of Judaism unknown to Sephardim. It's against this tragic decline in Jewish knowledge and contemporary social changes that some of our best and most intriguing works and the names that belong to them have been lost.
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print |
| Jose Faur | In the Shadow of History: Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity | SUNY (1992) | 9780791408025 | Spain, Sephardi Judaism, Converso Intellectuals, Europe | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Cecil Roth | A History of the Marranos | Sepher-Hermon Press | 9780872031388 | Inquisition, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Cecil Roth | Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi | Jewish Publication Society (2009) | 9780827604117 | Inquisition, History, Philanthropy | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Cecil Roth | The Spanish Inquisition | W. W. Norton and Company (1996) | 9780393002553 | Inquisition, Reonquista, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Alfonso Toro | The Carvajal Family: The Jews and the Inquisition in New Spain in the Sixteenth Century | Texas Western Press (2001) | 9780874042474 | Inquisition, Reonquista, History | English |  | -No Book |
| Angela S. Selke | The Conversos of Majorca | Magnes Press (1986) | 9789652236210 | History | English |  | -No Book |
| Sanford Shepard | Lost Lexicon: Secret Meanings in the Vocabulary of Spanish Literature | Ediciones Universail (1982) | 9780897293099 | Literature | English |  | -No Book |
| Stephen Gilman | The Spain of Fernando de Rojas: The Intellectual and Social Landscape of La Celestina | Princeton University Press (1972) | 9780691062020 | Literary Works | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Fernando de Rojas | Celestina | Nick Hern Books (2009) | B072ZJY6L4Z | Literary Works | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Manuel da Costa Fontes | The Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain: Rojas and Delicado | Purdue University Press (2005) | 9781557533487 | Literary Works | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Sanford Shepherd | Lost Lexicon: Secret Meanings in the Vocabulary of Spanish Literature During the Inquisition | Ediciones Universal (1982) | 9780897293099 | Linguistics, Literature, History | English |  | -No Book |
| Solomon Ibn Verga | A Historian in Exile: Solomon Ibn Verga, Shevet Yehuda, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter | University of Pennsylvania Press (2016) | 9780812248586 | Portugal, Expulsion | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Miriam Bodian | Dying in the Law of Moses | Indiana University Press (2007) | 9780253348616 | History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Luis de Gongora | The Solitudes | Penguin Classics (2012) | 9780143106722 | Literature | English/Espanol |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Luis de Gongora | Selected Poems of Luis de Gongora | University of Chicago Press (2007) | 9780226140599 | Poetry | English/Espanol |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yosef Haim Yerushalmi | The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image of Shebet Yehudah | Hebrew Union College Press (2015) | 9780822963769 | History, Antisemitism, Portugal | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Luis de Gongora | Poesia | Penguin Clasicos (2015) | B00W8AXFZW | Espanol |  | -Yes Digital |
Table 3: Balkans/South-Eastern Europe
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print |
| חיים פלאג'י | נפש חיים | 2001 / 1842 | טורקיה, הלכה | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| הרב משה אלמושנינו | ספר פרקי משה | מקורי / 1563 PublishYourSefer.com (2007) | יבן, תורה | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| משה בן יוסף ונטורה | ימין משה | 1624 | בולגריה | עברית |  | -לא ספר לינק | |
| Mair Jose Benardete | Hispanic Culture and the Character of the Sephardic Jews | Turkey | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Izaak Langnas & Barton Sholod | Studies in Honor of M.J. Bernadette (Essays in Hispanic and Sephardic Culture) | Las Americas (1965) | Bulgaria, Essays | English |  | -No Book | |
| Esther Benbassa | Haim Nahum: Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Politics, 1892-1923 | University of Alabama Press (1995) | 9780817307295 | Biography, Haim Nahum Effendi, Chief Rabbi, Ottoman Empire | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Rabbi Eliezer Papo | The Essential Pele Yoetz: An Encycolpedia of Ethical Jewish Living | Sepher-Hermon Press (1991) | B004H4ICLY | Bulgaria, Jewish Philosophy | English |  | -No Book |
| Mark Mowzer | Salonika: City of Ghosts. Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 | Vintag (2006) | 9780375727382 | Salonika, Co-Existence, Ottoman Empire, Holocaust, Sufi | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Leon Sciaky | Farewell to Salonika: City at the Crossroads | Paul Dry Books (2003) | 9781589880023 | Salonika, Autobiography, History, Co-Existence, Greece | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Stephen Schwartz | Sarajevo Rose: A Balkan Jewish Notebook | Saqi Books (2005) | 9780863565922 | Ottoman Empire, Bosnia | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Isak Samokovlija | Tales of Old Sarajevo | Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (1997) | 9780853033325 | Literature | English |  | -No Book |
| Elias Canetti | Auto de Fe | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374518790 | Bulgaria, Fiction Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Elias Canetti | Crowds & Power | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 9780374518202 | Bulgaria, Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Esther Benbassa, Aron Rodrigue | Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community , 14th-20th Centuries (Volume 2) | University of California Press (2000) | 9780520218222 | Judeo-Spanish, Asia-minor | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Monique Balbuena | Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora | Stanford University Press (2016) | 9780804760119 | Language, Poetry | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Renee Levine Melammed | An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty | Indiana University Press (2013) | B00BIP2JLE | Language, Poetry | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Kalmi Baruh | Selected Works on Sephardic and Other Jewish Topics | Shefer Publishers (2007) | 9789659079018 | Bosnia, Serbian | English |  | -No Book |
| Stanford J. Shaw | The Jew of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic | Palgrave Macmillan (1991) | 9781349122370 | Turkey | English |  | -No Book |
| Mark Cohen | Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir 1839-1943 | Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture (2003) | 9781886857063 | Macedonia | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Albert Cohen | Her Lover | Penguin Classics (2005) | 9780141188300 | Ficton. Corfu born writer. | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Edouard Roditi | Choose Your Own World | Asylum Arts Pub (1992) | 9781878580405 | Prose Poems | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Edouard Roditi | Thrice Chosen | Black Sparrow Press (1984) | 9780876853504 | Anthology | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Edouard Roditi | De l'homsexualite | FeniXX réédition numérique (1962) | B09FY91BYK | Lectures | Francaise |  | -Yes Digital |
| Albert Cohen | Belle de Seigneur | Editions Gallimard (2016) | B01KEIL68C | Fiction | Francaise |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Albert Cohen | La Livre de ma mere: Refonte | Belin Education (2017) | 9782410004793 | Fiction | Francaise |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Clarisse Nicoidski | Guerres civiles | FeniXX réédition numérique(1991) | B07XVPCQ1Y | Fiction | Francaise |  | -Yes Digital |
| Clarisse Nicoidski | Ann Boleyn | éditions Théâtrales (1993) | B00W7WG134 | Fiction | Francaise |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Isaac Azose | Siddur Zehut Yosef | Siddur, Prayer, Tefillah | Hebrew/English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Marc Angel | A Sephardic Passover Haggadah | Ktav Pub Inc (1987) | B01K2K68HQ | Pesah, Haggadah | Hebrew/English with songs in Judeo-Spanish |  | -No Book |
| Isak Samokovlija | Nosac Samuel | Dječija knjiga Sarajevo (2016) | 9789958150081 | Bosnian |  | -No Book | |
| Mose ben Baruk Almosnino | Regimiento de la vida Tratado de los suenyos | Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2004) | 0866982981 | Jewish Ethics | Ladino with some English translations |  | -Yes Book |
| Isak Papo | Cuentos sobre los sefardies de Sarajevo | Logos (1994) | Folk Literature, History | Espanol |  | -No Book |
Table 4: Middle East and Israel
Aside from works of religion and history, this section also includes numerous books that are critical for understanding how the founding of the state of Israel and Ashkenazi hegemony and racism has undermined the classic Sephardic tradition. These titles, most of them written by Sephardim, document both the historical heritage and the transition away from their cosmopolitan and pluralistic values, to a chauvinistic form of Zionism, Haredi Judaism and a trite form of Orientalism. Nothing intellectually Sephardi has really survived in Israel. Completing this section was also problematic from the perspective of a new form of Mizrachi radicalism that emerged in the 1950's. Whilst this radicalism embraced many of the cosmopolitan Sephardi values of old, it often came at the expense of religious tradition. I hope that titles here can bring together the old religious way of seeing things combined with the political and social and not one at expense of the other.
An additional issue facing Sephardim today is a new form of "Mizrachi" identify which is built around food, music and a rather limited and false view of the Jewish experience of Islam which has been reduced to being only about "antisemitism" and "expulsion". Israeli rabbis dominate the religious element of the new Mizrachi identity and they often made halachic rulings against the better knowledge of the older Sephardi rabbis. I have chosen not to include those rabbis here, whose works and outlook better reflect the Haredi way of doing things. Often they disregarded and continue to disregard wider learning to the benefit of a Judaism that focuses only on ritual, humrot and Jewish law. Jewish history has been placed in a straight jacket designed to reflect the current Israeli/Zionist realities.
I'm not interested in pro/anti Israel polemics, but hope to provide the reader with a better understanding of what Sephardic culture was and how that came to be erased. I have a belief that the old values could help solve many problems in today's world.
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| יוסף אליהו שלוש | פרשת חיי | הוצאצ בבל (1920's/2006) | ביוגרפיה, היישוב | עברית |  | -כן ספר Available here | |
| ז'קלין כהנוב | סולם יעקב | מכון בן צבי / 2015 | מצרים, פרוזה, תרבות לבנטין | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| יובל עברי | השיבה לאנדלוס: מחלוקות על תרבות וזהות יהודית-ספרדית בין ערביות לעבריות | מגנס / 2020 | 9789657008881 | נרטיבים שנויים בחלוקות | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| אלה שוחט | הקולנוע הישראלי: מזרח/ מערב והפוליטיקה של הייצוג | האוניברסיטה הפתוחה /2005 | התרבות הישראלית | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| סמי מיכאל | שווים ושווים יותר | בוסטן / 1974 | רומן | עברית |  | לא -ספר | |
| סמיר נקאש | שלמה הכורדי ואני והזמן | הוצאת מכון ון ליר והוצאת ידיעות ספרים / 2020 | רומן | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| סמיר נקאש | יש שתבל הרתה והפילה בו | ספרים פועלים / 1985 | רומן | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| שושנה שבבו | מריה | Hebreo (2002) | 9789657103135 | רומן, תימנית | עברית |  | -לא ספר |
| שושנה שבבו | אהבה בצפת | הוצאת אחיאסף / 1942 | רומן, תימנית | עברית |  | -לא ספר | |
| יוסף לוי | בת המזרח החדשה: על יצירתה של שושנה שבבו | הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר-אילן | 9652261750 | רומן, תימנית | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| ברכה סרי | שבעים שירי שוטטות | הוצאת הוצא לאור / 1983 | רומן, שירים | עברית |  | -לא ספר | |
| ברכה סרי | יקום פורקן | הוצאת האור הגוז / 2012 | משורר | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| אמירה הס | וירח נוטף שגעון | 1984 / עם עובד | שירים | עברית |  | -לא ספר | |
| יצחק גורמזאנו גורן | בלאנש | עם עובד / 1986 | רומן, מצרי | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| יצחק גורמזאנו גורן | קיץ אלכסנדרוני | עם עובד / 1978 | סיפורות | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| בן ציון עוזיאל | משפתי עוזיאל א' יש 9 כרכים | 1995 / 1935 | הרב הראשי, ספרדי הקלאסי | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| רבי דויד שלוש | חמדה גנוזה (3 ספרים) | 200 | הלכה | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| שאול מטלוב עבאדי | מגן בעדי | 32-21874 | סוריה, הלכה | עברית |  | Availabe here | |
| יוסף פאור | הרב ישראל משה חזן | חיפה /1977 | ביוגרפיה | עברית |  | לא -ספר | |
| הרב חיים די לה רוזה | ספר תורת חיים | 1848 / המקורי PublishYourSefer.com (2007) | תורה | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| רבי שלום שבזי | עיונים בקובץ חדש בכתב ידו | הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר-אילן | 978965-2265159 | תימן, פיזמונים | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| S. D Goitein | A Mediterranean Society Volume 1: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza | University of California Press (2000) | 9780520221581 | Cairo Geniza, Mediterranean Jews,Jewish Life | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Michelle Campos | Ottomon Brothers: Muslims, Christians and Jews, in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine | Stanford University Press (2010) | 9780804770682 | Palestine, Israel, Holy Land, Social Interactions | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor | Oriental Neighbours: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine | Brandeis University Press (2010) | 9781512600063 | Co-existence | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| S. D Gotein | Jews and Arabs: A Concise History of Their Social and Cultural Relations | Dover Publications (2005) | 9780846439877 | Relations | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Lucien Gubbay | Sunlight and Shadow: The Jewish Experience of Islam | I.B. Taurus (2002) | 9781860647383 | Relations | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Jacqueline Kahanoff | Mongrels of Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Kahanoff | Stanford University Press (2011) | 9780804769532 | Egypt, Intellectual, Cosmopolitanism | English |  | -Yes Book |
| David Sklare | Samuel ben Hofni Gaon and His Cultural World: Texts and Studies | Brill; Bilingual edition (1996) | 9789004103023 | Medieval Judaism | English, Judeo-Arabic |  | -No Book |
| Gudrun Kramer | The Jews in Modern Egypt | I B Taurus & Co Ltd | 9781850431008 | Egypt | English |  | -No Book |
| Edmond Jabes | The Book of Questions (Vol.1) | Wesleyan University Press (1991) | 9780819562475 | Egypt, Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Eliane Usrula Ettmuller | The Construct of Egypt's National-Self in James Sanua's Early Satire and Caricature: 22 | Laus Schwarz (2012) | 9783879974115 | Egpyt | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Kay Shelemay | Let Jasmine Rain Down | University of Chicago press (1998) | 9780226752112 | Syria, Aleppo, Middle East, Arab Jewish Liturgical Music, Pizmonim | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yaron Harel | Syrian Jewry in Transition, 1840-1880 | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (2010) | 9781904113652 | Syrian Jewish History | English |  | -No Book |
| Yaron Harel | Zionism in Damascus: Ideology and Activity in the Jewish Community at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century | I.B. Tauris (2014) | 9781780766706 | Syria, Zionism | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yaron Harel | Intrigue & Revolution in the Jewish Communities in Damascus, Aleppo, and Baghdad, 1744-1914 | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (2015) | B01K0T7H3I | English |  | -Yes Book | |
| Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber | Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair | Palgrave Macmillan (2009) | 9780230613461 | Racism in Israel. Yemenites, History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Orit Bashkin | Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel | Stanford University Press (2017) | B0731GC7ZN | Iraqi Jews, Israeli Racism | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Orit Bashkin | The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq | Stanford University Press (2010) | 9780804773669 | Iraq, Culture | English |  | -YesBook Digital |
| Orit Bashkin | New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq | Stanford University Oress (2012) | 9780804778756 | Iraq, History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Zvi Zohar | Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East | Continuum Publishing Corporation (2013) | B00DI2V3G2 | Rabbinic Thought, Eastern Rabbi's, Israel Moshe Hazzan | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Avi Sagi and Zvi Zohar | Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew | Continuum International Publishing Group (2007) | 9780826496713 | Sephardi Rabbinic Thought, Conversion | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Ellie Eliachar | Living with Jews | Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1983) | 9780297782278 | Social, Polical, Israel | English |  | -No Book |
| Elie Kedourie | Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Studies | Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (1970) | 9780297178255 | Politics | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Nissim Rejwan | Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralists Perspective | University Press of Florida (1999) | 9780813016016 | Levantine Culture, Israel, Arab Jews, Islam, Pluralism, Iraq, Zionism | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Nissim Rejwan | Israel in Search of Identity: Reading the Formative Years | University Press of Florida (1999) | 9780813016641 | Israel, Zionism, Middle Eastern Culture | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Nissim Rejwan | The Last Jews in Baghdad | University of Texas Press (2011) | 9780292726888 | Iraqi Jews | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Nissim Rejwan | The Jews of Iraq: 3000 Years of History and Culture | Routledge (2019) | B07V2PHJ63 | Iraqi Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Avi Shlaim | The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World | Penguin (2014) | 9780141033228 | Israeli History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Avi Shlaim | Israel & Palestine: Reapraisals , Revisions, Refutations | Verso (2009) | 9781844673667 | Israeli History | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Avi Shlaim | Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace | Penguin (2008) | 9780141017280 | Jordanian History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Avi Shlaim | War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History Revised and Updated | Penguin (1996) | 9780140245646 | History of the Middle East | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Avi Shlaim | Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew | Oneworld Publications (2023) | B0BHTNVHY5 | Biography | English | -Yes Book Digital | |
| Abbas Shiblak | The Lure of Zion: The Case of the Iraqi Jews | Al Saqi (1986) | 9780863560330 | Politics, Zionism, Iraqi Jews | English |  | -No Book |
| G.N. Giladi | Discord in Zion: Conflict Between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel | Scorpion Cavendish ltd (1990) | 9780905906874 | Politics, Zionism, Racism | English |  | -No Book |
| Shalom Chetrit | Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews | Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics (2009) | 9780415778640 | Politics | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Ella Shohat | Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation | I B Taurus Ltd (2010) | 9781845113131 | Israel, Arab Jews, Palestinians, Contemporary Culture | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Ella Shohat | On the Arab-Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat | Pluto Press (2017) | 9780745399492 | Palestinians, Mizrachi, Migration | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Rachel Shabi | We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands | Walker Books (2009) | 9780802715722 | Israel, Racism, Aliyah, Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Yehouda Shenhav | The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion and Ethnicity | Stanford University Press (2006) | 9780804752961 | Israel, Zionism, Racism, Arab Jews, Middle Eastern Culture, Islam, Sabra Identity | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Ammiel Alcalay | After Arabs and Jews: Remaking Levantine Culture | University of Minnesota Press (1992) | 9780816621552 | Israel, Sephardim, Pluralism | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Ammiel Alcalay | A Bibliography for After Arabs and Jews | Punctum Books (2021) | 9781953035349 | Bibliography | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Sasson Somekh | Life After Baghdad: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew in Israel | Sussex Academic Press (2012) | 9781845195021 | Biography, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Cairo | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Naeim Giladi | Ben Gurion's Scandal's: How the Hagannah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews | Dandelion Enterprises (2006) | 9781893302402 | Iraqi Jews, Racism in Israel | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Samir Naqqash | Tenants and Cobwebs | Syracuse University Press (2018) | B07D7ZXDTG | Iraqi Jew, literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yitzhak Gormezano Goren | Alexandrian Summer | New Vessel Press (2015) | B00W0LPKXO | Egyptian, literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Yehuda Burla | In Darkness Striving | Israel Universities Pres (1968) | B0006FF1E4 | Literature, Palestine (pre-State of Israel) | English |  | -No Book |
| Shimon Ballas | Outcast | City Light Publishers (2007) | 9780872864818 | Literature | English |  | -No Book Digital |
| Shalom Chetrit | Jews Poems | Cervena Barva Press (2008?) | B01HC1MNBS | Poetry | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Sami Michael | The Refuge | Jewish Publication Society of America (1988) | B00AA9CHKC | Fiction | English |  | -No Book |
| Samuel Ibn Adiya | Judisch-Arabische Poesien aus Vormuhammedischer Zeit | Palala Press (2016) | 9781356659708 | Philosophy | Deutsch |  | -Yes Book |
| Naim Kattan | Adieu, Babylone: Memoires d'un juif d'Irak | Albin Michel (2013) | B009XFDOBK | Biography | Francaise |  | -Yes Digital |
| Shimon Ballas | La litterature arabe et le conflit au proche-orient | FeniXX redition numerique (1980) | B07QRVMNYT | Arab literature | Francaise |  | -Yes Digital |
| Yitzhak Shami | Nouvelles D'Hebron | Labor et Fides (2006) | 9782830911961 | Literature, Palestine (pre-State of Israel) | Francaise |  | -Yes Book |
Table 4.1 India and Asia
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print? |
| Rabbi Ezekiel Musleah | On the Banks of the Ganga: The Sojourn of Jews in Calcutta | 97808115803133 | Indai | English |  | -No Book | |
| Rabbi Ezekiel Musleah | Bits and Pieces, Snippets and Snatches: A Lifetime of Thoughts, Anecdotes and Events | XLibris Corp (2011) | 9781456849450 | India, Biography | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Rachel Musleah | Songs of the Jews of Calcutta | Hal Leaonard Publishing Corporation (1997) | 9780933676247 | India | English |  | -Yes Book |
Table 5: North Africa
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print? |
| רבי יוסף משאש | הוד יוסף חי | 2008 | מורוקו, חיפה, הלכה, הרב הראשי | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| שו"ת שמש ומגן / 4 כריכים | רבי שלום משאש | 10400085 | הלכה, תשובות | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |
| ילקוט שמ"ש | רבי שלום משאש | ספריית בית אל | 778976890 | פסקי מנהגי | עברית |  | -כן ספר |
| חם השמש על התורה | רבי שלום משאש | עברית |  | -כן ספר | |||
| Mordechai HaKohen /Edited by Harvey Goldberg | The Book of Mordechai: A Study of the Jews of Libya- Selections from the "Highid Mordechai" | Darf Publishers (1993) | 9781850772316 | Libya, Jewish Life, Berbers, Ethnography, Jewish - Non-Jewish relations. | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Emily Gottreich | Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa | Indiana University Press (2011) | B005FB8CCM | North African Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Emily Gottreich | Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonnial Times | I.B.Tauris (2020) | 9781780768496 | Moroccan Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Emily Gottreich | The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City (2006) | Indiana University Press (2006) | 9780253218636 | Morrocan Jewish History, Marrakesh | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Elias Canetti | The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit | Penguin Books (2012) | 9780141195629 | Bulgarian Sephardi, Travel Writing, Jewish Quarter, Souk, Morocco | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Jacques Derrida | Of Grammatology | John Hopkins University Press (2016) | 9781421419954 | Algeria, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Phenomonology | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Jacques Derrida | Writing & Difference | Routledge (2001) | 9780415253833 | Algeria, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Phenomonology | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Vanessa Paloma | The Mountain, the Dessert and the Pomegranate: Stories from Morocco and Beyond | Gaon Books (2010) | 9781935604037 | Morocco | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Maurice El Medioni | Maurice El Medioni A Memoir: From Oran to Marseilles (1936-1990) | Watkins Publishing Limited (2014) | 9781910924426 | Algeria, Biography, Oran | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Joann Sfar | The Rabbi's Cat | Pantheon (2007) | 9780375714641 | Algeria, Comics | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Edmond Amran El Maleh | Mil anos y un dia | Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterraneo (2011) | 9788496327849 | Fiction | Espanol |  | -Yes Book |
| Edmond Amran El Maleh | Mille ans un jour | Pensee Sauvage (1986) | 9782859190583 | Roman | Francaise |  | -Yes Book |
| Nicole Elgrissy Banon | La renaicendre- Memoires d'une Marocaine juive et patriote | Afrique Orient (2010) | 9789981257061 | Biography/History | Francaise |  | -No Book |
| Nicole Elgrissy Banon | Dames de Couer sue le Carreau | De Talents Editeur (2015) | 9789954954744 | Fiction | Francaise |  | -Yes Book |
| Jose Faur | Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition | Indiana University Press (1986) | 9780253326003 | Rabbinics, Jewish History, Interpretation | English |  | -No Book |
| Jose Faur | The Horizontal Society (Vols.I and II) | Academic Studies Press (2010) | 9781936235049 | Rabbinics, Jewish History, Jewish Thought | English |  | -Yes Book |
Table 6: Literary Compilations
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| הרב חיים רפאל שושנה | אעירה שחר | מורוקו, פיוטים, באר שבע, שירים | עברית |  | -כן ספר | ||
| Edited by Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite | Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought (Includes Essays by: Ben Tzion Uziel, Henry Curiel, Jacqueline Kahanoff, Murad Faraj, David Bitton) | Brandeis University Press (2013) | 9781584658856 | Sephardi essayists (politics, culture, religion) | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Ilan Stavans (Editor) | The Schocken Book Modern Sephardic Literature | Schocken (2005) | 9780805242287 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Diane Matza (Editor) | Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy | Brandeis University Press (1997) | 9780874518900 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Ammiel Alcalay | Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing | City Lights Publishers (2001) | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book | |
| T. Carmi | The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse | Penguin Classics (2006) | 9780140424676 | Hebrew Poetry | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Philo, Saadya Gaon, Yehuda HaLevi (edited by Hans Lewy and Alexander Altmann) | 3 Jewish Philosophers | Word Wise (2012) | B007FE0Q58 | Jewish Philosophy, Classics | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Raphael Loewe | Hebrew Poems and Translations | Hebrew Poetry | English / עברית |  | -Yes Book | ||
| My note: As this is a contemporary work, produced by a number of authors in a new geographic setting dominated by Israel, it's worth looking at the literature from a critical viewpoint and comparing it to the older writing style's found in Sephardi literature. | |||||||
| Dario Miccoli | Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrachi Literature | Routledge (2019) | 9780367885502 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book |
Table 7: Ashkenazi Writer's
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi | Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory | University of Washington Press (2011) | B007KORS4A | History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio |
| Shmuel Feiner | The Jewish Enlightenment | University of Pennsylvania Press (2011) | B00B4FJ9BQ | History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| The Hardback edition contains the original text, edited out to appease the Haredi element of the UK Jewish community. | |||||||
| Jonathan Sacks | The Dignity of Difference | Continuum (2004) | 9780826468505 | Sociology, Religion, Pluralism | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Emmanuel Levinas | Humanism of the Other | University of Illinois Press (2005) | 9780252073267 | Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Salomon Malka | Emmanual Levinas: His Life and Legacy | Duquesne University Press (2006) | 9780820703589 | Biography | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Gershom Scholem | Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism | Schocken Books (1995) | 9780805210422 | Mysticism | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Isaac Tishby | The Wisdom of the Zohar: An Anthology of Texts | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press (1991) | 9781874774280 | Jewish Mysticism | English (translated by David Goldstein) |  | -Yes Book |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | The Prophets | Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2001) | 9780060936990 | Mikra | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | Heavenly Torah: As Refracted through the Generations | Continuum (2006) | 9780826418920 | Mikra | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976) | 9780374513283 | Jewish Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Isaiah Berlin | The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas | Princeton University Press (2013) | 9780691155937 | Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Isaiah Berlin | The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2000) | 9780374527174 | Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Susan Handelman | The Slayer of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory | State University of New York (1983) | 9780873955768 | Tanakh | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Lawrence Shiffman | Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls; Background of Christianity, Judaism and the Lost Library of Qumran | Jewish Publications Society (2009) | 9780827605305 | History | English |  | -No Book |
| Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg | Genesis: The Beginning of Desire | The Jewish Publication Society (2010) | 9780827609150 | Midrash, Tanakh | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg | The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus | Bravo ltd (2011) | 9780805212372 | Midrash, Tanakh | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg | The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus | Schoken (2022) | 9780805243574 | Midrash, Tanakh | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg | Bewilderments: Reflections on the Book of Numbers | Schoken (2015) | B00N6PEV5G | Midrash, Tanakh | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
| Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg | The Murmuring Deep: Relections on the Biblical Unconcious | Schoken (2009) | B002361NHS | Midrash, Tanakh | English |  | -Yes Book Digital |
Links
The Weisz Western Sephardi Collection
S&P Library: Professor Richard Barnett's former collection
Learn MoreEts Haim Bibliotheek: Livraria Montezinos
S&P Library: Online manuscripts from the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam
Learn MoreMoreshet Sepharad
A collection of articles, lectures and teachings from the late Hakam Jose Faur
Learn MoreWorldCat
Online bibliographic resource, searching for library materials from around the world
Learn MoreChildren
| Table 1 | Children's Books by Spanish and Portuguese Sephardim |
| Table 2 | Other Sephardim |
| Table 3 | Teenagers and Young Adults |
This page will provide resources from the S&P and the wider Sephardic world
1. Children's Books by Spanish and Portuguese Sephardim
| Author | Title | Publisher / Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-print? |
| Edited by Rabbi Avraham Levy and Dayan Pinchas Toledano | Children's Prayer Book | The Heshaim Society | Tefillot | Hebrew/English | Yes -Book Link to product | ||
| David de Sola Pool | How to Tell Bible Stories to Jewish Children | Wentworth Press (2019) | 9780526455560 | Learning | English |  | Yes -Book |
| Emily Solis-Cohen | The Holy Scriptures: An Abridgment for Use in the Jewish School and Home | Jewish Publication Society (1931) | B004H5JVHM | Children's bible | Hebrew/English |  | -No Book |
| Emily Solis-Cohen | David and the Giant Killer, and Other Tales, of Grandma Lopez | Forgotten Books (2012) | 9781440044694 | Fiction | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Emily Solis-Cohen | Friday Night Stories | The Women's League of the United Synagogue of America | Religious Fiction | English | -No Book | ||
| Emily Solis-Cohen | Hanukkah: the feast of lights | Jewish Publication Society of America (1951) | B000ME816E | Religion | English |  | -No Book |
| Rebecca Gratz | The Teachers' and Parents' Assistant, or, Thirteen Lessons Coveying to Uninformed Minds the First Ideas of God and his Attributes | Sagwan Press (2015) | 9781340322847 | Education | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Rebecca Gratz | Catechism for Younger Children Designed as a Familiar Exposition of the Jewish Religion | Palala Press (2015) | 9781342041388 | Education | English |  | -Yes Book |
| Linda Glaser | Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | HMH Books for Young Readers (2013) | 9780544105089 | Picture Book | English |  | Yes -Book -Digital |
| Erica Silverman | Liberty's Voice: The Emma Lazarus Story | Dutton Books for Young Readers (2011) | 9780525478591 | Picture Book | English |  | Yes -Book -Digital |
2. Other Sephardim
| Author | Title | Publisher | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | Availability |
| Sigal Samuel | Osnat and her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi | Levine Querido (2021) | 9781646140374 | Picture Book, Kurdistan, Female Scholar, Osnat Barzani | English |  | Yes -Book -Digital -Audio |
| Sarah Aroeste/ Ayesha Rubio | Buen Shabbat, Shabbat Shalom | Kar-Ben Publishing (2020) | 9781541542464 | Boardbook, Ladino, Shabbat | English |  | Yes -Book -Digital -Audio |
| Sarah Aroeste | Ora de Despertar, Time to Wake Up | CreateSpace Independent Publishing (2017) | 9781545296165 | Picture Book | English-Ladino |  | Yes -Book |
3. Teenagers & Young Adults
| Author | Title | Publisher | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | Availability |
| Joann Sfar | The Rabbi's Cat | Pantheon Books (2005) | 9780375422812 | Graphic Novel | English |  | Yes -Book |
Education
One of the most important things to a Jew throughout the ages has been education. Jewish education today and what it meant in the past for Sephardim are two completely different things. In centuries past, Sephardic Jews produced a wide range of literature, poetry, plays, philosophy and spiritual works. At the centre of all of this was the essential classical Hebrew texts of Miqra, Mishnah and the Talmud and the way's in which they were learnt. A thorough Jewish education did not create a closed and hermetic society, quite the contrary. Sephardim were able to combine their Jewish particularism to a universal humanism. This created a Jewish society that was observant but which also absorbed and learnt wider knowledge and had cultural overlapping with surrounding peoples. Very often, this way of life is mistaken for assimilation, when it was not the case at all. It was not simply a matter of one or the other (religious/secular), but an overlap that allowed Jews to follow their own laws and be members of the wider world. Rabbis once wrote works that were influential for Jews and non-Jews alike. Sephardic religious humanism provides an alternative to the secular/religious divide.
This page will attempt to give people the tools to study the Jewish texts and will provide some multimedia that will help re-orientate today's student to a more accurate understanding of Sephardi Judaism and the context in which it once thrived. Whereas in the past, Sephardi rabbis would produce vast volumes of work, today, we're lucky to get a prayer book out of most of our ministers. Sephardim producing poetry has completely dried up. Today, we process and understand data and information through alien binary's such as "Reform" and "Orthodox", "Secular" and "Jewish" and "Western" and "Eastern". These conflicting ideas are the result of European Judaism and German Idealism and do not have their roots in the Judaism which emerged from the Babylonian academies.
| 1.0 | Dictionaries |
| 1.1 | Miqra, Mishna, Talmud |
| 1.2 | Mishna |
| 1.2b | Targum |
| 1.3 | Talmud |
| 2.0 | Collapsing Timelines |
| 3.0 | Other Useful Reading |
| 4.0 | Reading Minhag into Jewish Law |
| 4.1 | Kol Isha (or not) |
| 4.2 | Electricity on Yom Tob (and Shabbat) |
| 5.0 | The "New Sephardim" and Sephardi Outreach Initiatives |
1. Dictionaries
One of the most important aspects of learning Jewish texts is the ability to read it in the original language. Here are some useful tools to assist in this.
| Author/Editor | Name | Publisher | ISBN | Description | Picture | Availability |
| Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, Charles A. Briggs | The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon | Tyndale House Publishers (1994) | 9781565632066 | Miqra |  | -Yes Book |
| Marcus Jastrow | Dictionary of the Targumin, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature | Judaica Press (2004) | 9781932443202 | Talmud and Midrash |  | -Yes Book |
| Michael Sokoloff | A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods | Bar Ilan University Press (2003) | 9789652264053 | Aramaic of the Talmud and Geonic Period |  | -Yes Book |
| David Kimhi (annotated by William Chomsky) | Hebrew Grammar | Bloch Publishing (1952) | Hebrew Grammar |  | -No Book | |
| Wilhelm Gesenius | Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar | 1909 Currently on Wikisource | Rabbinic Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | |
| There is an increase in digital dictionaries. They do not compare to the wealth of knowledge found in the physical books such as the Brown-Driver-Briggs dictionary, nor do they aid students in memorising their knowledge of grammar and Hebrew word roots IMO, Morphix contains a lot of words beyond Israeli Modern Hebrew and is useful for Jewish studies. | ||||||
Morphix Translation- Free Hebrew-English Dictionary  | Download here | |||||
| The following dictionaries are from the Spanish and Portuguese, Today, they are out of print, but are available online. | ||||||
| J. M. De Sola | A Vocabulary of the Pentateuch | 1865 | English-Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | |
| David de Pomis | Tzemach David- Hebrew Lexicon | Italian-Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | ||
| Selamoh de Olivera | Gramatica Hebrayca & Chaldayca | 5549 (1778) | Spanish-Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | |
| David Cohen de Lara | De Convenientia Vocabulorum Rabinicorum | Spanish-Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | ||
| Mose Rafael de Aguilar | Epitome da Gramatica Hebraica | 5420 (1659) | Spanish-Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | |
| Mose Rafael de Aguilar | Epitome da Gramatica Hebraica (II) | 5421 (1660) | Spanish-Hebrew |  | -Online Click here | |
1.1 Miqra, Mishna, Talmud
These texts are three of Judaism's core books which a Jewish student will study. Owning your own Miqra can be tricky these days due to the editing process which reinforces certain ideas and ways of thinking. Of the three books I recommend here, one (the Soncino) gives the peshat of the text, the Hertz gives a mixture of Sephardic and Ashkenazic commentary but also looks into non-Jewish texts such as history and science to find supporting information. The third is a volume with Spanish commentaries from a mixture of old Sephardi and Ashkenazi rabbis.
| Edited by Abraham Cohen | The Soncino Chumash | The Soncino Press (1947) | 978-0900689246 |  | |
| Rabbi Hertz |
| Sonico Press (1997) | 0980900689215 |  | |
| Rabino Marcos Edery | Miqra- Hebrew with Espanol | Link to online book |
1.2 Mishna
This book is supposed to be learnt by chanting it to a melody. Unfortunately this technique is being lost. Ammiel Alcalay commented in his book (After Jews and Arabs) that it was once possible to walk into a Yemenite Synagogue and hear the men and boys chanting the Mishnah or to go in on Shabbat and hear them reciting the Targum in Aramaic and that these traditions are being lost, with Judaism becoming homogenous and flat. I include below two editions of the Mishnah printed in Amsterdam with the Ta'amim that aid in it's recitation. There is also a short video from Rabbi DeMota giving an example of it's melody.
| רבי אבנדנה עם אדם בוראל |
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| אמסרדאם. משנה |  | Link to Text | ||||
| Rabbi DeMota | Mishna chant | Link to YouTube video |
1.2b Targum
To be studied on Shabbat the Targum should be a staple in any Jewish home. To quote David Ramirez from this article published below: "In Jewish tradition, the legal minutiae makes it obligatory to study the weekly portion of the Toráh twice in the Hebrew original, and once in its Aramaic translation of the Targum of Onkelos." Also included is an article from Rabbi/Professor Jose Faur regarding the Targum and Halakha.
| David Ramirez | Derashah, The Art of Interpetation in Jewish Law | David Ramirez Blog (22/02/18) | Link to article |
| Jose Faur | The Targumim and Halakha | The Jewish Quarterly Review (July 1975) | Link to essay |
| Author | Title | Publisher | Image | Availability |
| John Wesley Etheridge | The Targums of Onkelos & Jonathan Ben Uzziel | Hard Press (2018) |  | Yes |
| Yitzhak Frank | Grammar for Gemara & Targum Onkelos | Toby Press Ltd (2016) |  | Yes |
1.3 Talmud
Study of Talmud has become transformed by the Ashkenazi way of reading the text which is radically different from our own. It is this school of thought that has mostly won out today. Below are two books that will aid a student to study the Talmud the Sephardi way.
| יצחק קנפנטון | דרכי התלמוד |  | The book is still in print Link to online edition |
| שלומה אוליורה | דרכי נועם |  | Link to online text |
2. Collapsing Timelines
The history of Sephardic Jews is increasingly coming to be seen through the lens of European history and not through the lens of the wider histories of the world. Despite Europe being one of the most economically advanced regions of the world today, historically this was not the case and education, philosophical thinking and culture were to be found elsewhere. Jews in Europe experienced a shift in thinking with the "Age of Enlightenment" in the 17th and 18th century, followed by increased emancipation, allowing Jews to attend university and be part of civil society in a way which was not previously possible.
Sephardi Jews, most of whom lived around the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East already had centuries of learning in philosophy, science, grammar and linguistics, Greek and Arab thought and did not live isolated from the wider world. Quite unfairly, it's been assumed by many that all Jews lived in an intellectual darkness until the Enlightenment and those who did not live geographically close to this phenomenon remained in darkness until they were either "rescued" by the State of Israel in modern times, or emigrated to the Western World. The Alliance school network in the Islamic world is also seen as an example of how Jews in the East benefited from European education, though this school network was part of a colonial project often working against the native Jews and their relationships with non-Jews. Sephardim always had philosophical thinking, as evidenced by the rich rabbinic works produced by our rabbis and lay leadership and the vast volume of poetry and literature that complements this- something not seen in the Ashkenazi world.
Professor Yuval Evri was recently interviewed by Oxford University about this history in relation to contemporary Sephardi writers and the Middle East:
| Yuval Evri | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies | Oxford University: Israel Studies Seminar | Link to podcast |
Rabbi Joseph Dweck, the current leader of the UK Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi community gave several classes to a Jewish organisation called Torah in Motion in which he falsely claimed that Jews living in the Islamic world had no connection to modernity and that the rabbis had no philosophical thinking because they hadn't gone through the Enlightenment. Aside from the fact that they did have philosophical and very rich and complex thinking, related to studies in linguistics, science and the Hebrew texts, Enlightenment knowledge also arrived in places outside of Europe. For the Sephardim it was 'business as usual'. Rabbi Dweck based his talks on an essay written by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik called "Rupture and Reconstruction". Rather than challenge the false and racist narratives in this article, Dweck only reinforces them, something which he has done on several occasions. I wrote a critique of his lectures which you will find below:
| Yoel Pimentel | Nobel Savages: Rabbi Joseph Dweck's Unenlightened View of the Jews of the Arab World | Sephardic Heritage Update (13/01/2021) | Link to article |
Although I can't vouch for his other work and it's content, this class from Rabbi Joshua Maroof, correctly places Sephardim in their context as influential thinkers to both Jews and non-Jews alike:
| Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Sephardic Judaism: The Judaism of the Future | MYC Jewish Education |
3. Other Useful Reading
David Shasha from the Centre for Sephardic Heritage in Brooklyn New York, publishes an annual reading list to assist those on the path of Jewish study to select and learn from crucial texts. The list is a treasure trove of scholarship. Whilst many of the books appear on this website, here they appear in a well constructed and methodological way with brief but informative descriptions of many of the titles.
Sephardic Heritage Update - Building Your Library (click here)
His book of essays on Bereshit is also available online:
| David Shasha | Representing the Human Family: Essays on the Book of Genesis | 2002 | Link to book |
Miriam Gamliel from Yeshiva University has published a brilliant essay detailing the development of Jewish education and how Ashkenazim and Sephardim travelled along different roads in this respect. The following article was taken from the Sephardic Heritage Update.
| Miriam Leah Gamliel | Jewish Schooling through the Ages | History of Jewish Ed., Yeshiva University (2013) | Link to essay |
Rachmiel Ezra Travitz has written a number of essay's on Jewish law which can be found here
4.0 Reading Minhag into Jewish Law
4.1 Kol Isha (or not)
A worrying trend emerging in all of our communities is the practise of forbidding things permitted by the Talmud. One of things that is being forbidden in many of our communities is hearing women sing. The Talmud itself does not mention the word singing in the case that has come to be used as the deciding point on this matter. Below are some resources that should iron out this issue.
The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Memorial Volume, a publication of Yeshiva University have presented the following essay which incorporates the many different understandings of the topic of hearing a women's voice. As the article demonstrates, the Sephardi rabbis did not prohibit this or even interpret the Talmud to be talking about singing.
| Saul J. Berman | Kol 'Isha | Yeshiva University | Link to essay |
Rabbi David de Sola Pool, the former leader of Congregation Shearith Israel encouraged women to sing in our congregations. See the sermon below:
| David de Sola Pool | Congregational singing | New York (1910?) | Link to sermon |
Rabbi Yehonatan Elazar DeMota has written an article on the subject:
| Rabbi DeMota | To Sing or not to Sing? | Facebook (17/01/2010) | Link to Google Doc |
One of the most knowledgeable members of the Iraqi Jewish community was Flora Sassoon who was known to have read from the Torah in the Synagogue:
| Jennifer Breger | Flora Sassoon 1859-1936 | Jewish Women's Archive | Link to article |
Mixed choirs were once a feature in a number of Synagogue's and this is still the case in a small number. Below are some resources showing how Jewish communities were once at ease with women singing, before great pressure came to bear on many of them.
| Kinor and Hazamir singing an arrangement by Eyal Bitton | Ah! El Novio- Ladino Wedding Song | Montreal Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (March 2000) | Click here to see YouTube video |
| Vanessa Paloma | En Kelohenu | Bennaroch Synagogue, Cassablanca (annual event) | Click here to see YouTube video |
| Saul Marks | Our Choir (mixed) | Princess Road United Syangogue (Ashkenazi Orthodox) | Click here to read the article |
| Abraham Levy | A Rocky Road: Memoirs | Halban Publishers (2017) | Quote from p.60: "It (Hampstead Synagogue) was then the last United Synagogue to maintain a mixed choir and the lay leaders wondered how I felt about it." |
Unfortunately, a recent publication from the Montefiore Endowment called 'Memorable Sephardi Voices' has become memorable for all the wrong reasons. The editors and contributors of the book have not relied on the classical Sephardic stance on the aforementioned discussion, but have instead, taken the legal rulings of two later Israeli rabbis Haim David HaLevy and Ovadia Yosef, who forbid hearing women sing, most likely as a result of the more Haredi environment they were emerged in, in Israel.
| Compiled by Lucien Gubbay | Memorable Sephardi Voices | Montefiore Endowment (2020) | Link to the book |
The book also makes this rather false claim: "Originally intended to prevent immorality, the Gemara and the Shulhan Aruch strictly forbid men to listen to the voices of women singing. That did not worry the non-European Sephardi sages who mostly lived in the old Islamic world. Consequently, in this particular area, it is perhaps understandable that their discussions do not differ markedly from those of their usually more stringent Ashkenazi counterparts, some of whom may have been more exposed to Enlightenment ideas. Rabbi Yehudah Henkin, for example, stated that because the mitzvah of ‘hearing’ the Shofar and the Megillah cannot be performed through the radio, Kol Isha does not apply to women’s voices on the radio (See 3.5.1 below)." Thank you to WJDO for pointing this out to me.
The aforementioned book does not cite rabbis from the Islamic world, who, as you'll see from the Lookstein article did not even understand the Talmud to be talking about singing. Instead they use Israeli rabbis who are no doubt going to start forbidding things. I'm not sure why Rabbi Henkin's confused mess is included.
4.2 Electricity on Yom Tob (and Shabbat)
The book also forbids the use of electricity on Yom Tob. Again, more contemporary Israeli rabbis are used to bring the judgement on this and not the classic Sephardic rabbi, many of whom are listed in the back of the book. The use of electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tob was not forbidden by the old rabbis, but the whole idea of this book is to promote Modern Orthodoxy and when Sephardic Judaism comes up against that, Modern Orthodoxy wins. The first video below is of an a man from Syria discussing this in the context of his home country. Thank you to Luna Skye for compiling a number of resources on her website about electricity on Yom Tob including a list of rabbis and how they ruled on the subject.
| Electricity on Yom Tob | Link to video | ||
| Luna Skye | Electricity on Shabbath and Yom Tob- sources | Luna's Jewish Repository | Link to webpage |
4.3 Dancing and Clapping on Shabbat
There is also the issue of permitting what is forbidden. Rabbi DeMota covers the issus of dancing and clapping on Shabbat below:
| Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota | Dancing and Clapping on Shabbat | Facebook (08/11/17) | Link to article |
5. The "New Sephardim" and Sephardi Outreach Initiatives
We've seen a growing crop of putatively Sephardic outreach organisations. The problem with many of these initiatives is that they are often started by people who have not received the correct training and education themselves. The content tends to fall into one of two categories: food, music and folk traditions or religious ritual only. Neither of these cover the broad and complex output of Sephardim over the centuries including our involvement in poetry, literature, science, philosophy, philanthropy and of course the wider body of thought that lies within the rabbinic system itself and the methods and curriculum deployed to create this wealth of knowledge.
I've also noticed an increase in reference to the late rabbi Jose Faur, whose life's work provides one of the last threads connecting the Sephardi past to the present. During his life, I only heard him mentioned by two people. A sudden interest in his works started to ferment in the year leading up to his death and has since snowballed. Many of the people mentioning him, are still promoting rabbis whose legal methods and way of thinking are representative of the school of the Tosafot that Rabbi Faur critiqued in his seminal essay below:
| Rabbi Jose Faur | The Legal Thinking of the Tosafot: A Historical Approach | Originally published in Dine Yisrael, volume VI (1975) |
In London there is the "Habura". Their project seems less aimed at restoring the classical Sephardic heritage and more about creating an outreach organisation that can make an impact on the wider Modern Orthodox world. "Old Sepharad" is the marketing slogan, but rather than getting Maimonides, often we get Nachmanides. Sephardi and Sephardi hater are presented in the same context and it's clear that Sephardi Judaism is being presented in a way which de-contextualises our sages and places them in a framework solely about Jewish ritual. The content has fallen victim to the marketing and there doesn't seem to be a structured curriculum that would create a literature Jew. It could be a good program if the material was organised and presented within it's correct context and different schools of thought were understood and explained, but that is not the intention. The intention seems to be to create a "big tent" Jewish unity, but instead of including Ashkenazi thinkers who are on the same wavelength as our old sages, we get the likes of Soloveitchik, Kook and Hirsch. Whilst there are some good classes amongst their mass of content, one has to be careful to separate all of this out. Many of the students who follow this program are not literate in Judaism or knowledge in a way in which they are able to do this. The following will showcase some of the decent material.
a. Sephardic Education
The following class explains a little about Sephardi education in Syria. Thank you to Natan Abrahami for listening to the class and picking out the following important points: 1. Original Talmud Torah had both Jewish studies and wider general studies and there was no distinction between those works like today (secular/religious). 2. Teachers were Jewish, non-Jewish, men and women. 3. Schools were for both boys and girls, many times studying together. 4. Boys would study during the day, pray in the Synagogue (no separate minyan for the Yeshiba) and sleep at home. It was a tight knit community, but no sequestering of boys for the time that they were in Yeshiba. 5. The Alliance School focused on general studies and the teachers were often openly violating the Sabbath.
| יוסי דאיה | החינוך הספרדי: סדר החינוך בחלב במאה ה-20 | 17/01/22 | Link to YouTube video |
The following essays demonstrate that learning was broad in the Sephardi Talmud Torah (thank you to William Jeudah de Oliveria for sharing these) and that it has now been lost:
| נסים ליאון | ישיבת פורת יוסף: מחידוש היסטורי למיטוס אתני | פעמים: רבעון לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח | 2013 | Link to essay |
| שלומה גליקסברג | בתי מדרש לרבנים בנשיאות הראשונים לציון: רצף כמעט ללא תמורה | פעמים: רבעון לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח | 2013 | Link to essay |
| יעקוב לופו | הצלת יהדות מאראקא לתורה: הוצאת תלמידים ממורוקו לישבית ליטאיות אחר השואה | פעמים: רבעון לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח | 1999 | Link to essay |
Rabbi Abraham Levy mentions in his biography how it was the Ashkenazim that rejected general studies with Jewish learning. This again contradicts the Solovetichik/Dweck thesis that Sephardim were not modern:
| Abraham Levy | A Rocky Road: Memoirs | Halban Publishers (2017) | Quote p.34: "When Sir Moses offered to give money to yeshivot to teach their students Arabic, there was an outcry from the religious leadership, which objected to introducing any subject into their institutions other than Talmud." |
This brings us to another outreach initiative which frames Sephardim in a Modern Orthodox context, with no mention of the world in which they lived and learnt. The content is related to religious ritual only and Rav Kook and his Religious-Zionist philosophy is a firm favourite. Amongst all that however, is this class on Haham Shem Tob Gaguine. Again, we learn from this class that the Sephardi centre for rabbinic learning taught general studies also (languages, mathematics, science) and that it was the Ashkenazim who opposed this, contrary again to ideas circulating that Sephardim lived in some kind of hermetic Torah Shtetl for centuries.
| Yonatan Halevy | Exploring Jewish Giants: Shemtob Gaguine | Shiviti (01/12/20) | Link to YouTube video |
Returning to the Habura and education, they have presented this class from Rabbi Aron HaLeva which is about the Geonic-Andaluscian Talmud. Also included is a podcast covering the same ground by Rachmiel Travitz and a class on rabbinic authority from Rabbi Alan Yuter:
| Rabbi Aron Haleva | Talmud in the Geonic Andaluscian-Tradition | Habura (20/06/21) | Link to YouTube Video |
| Rachmiel Travitz | A talk on rabbinics | Building Jerusalem (31/05/22) | Link to Podcast |
| Alan Yuter | The Modern Orthodox Rabbi's Authority as Poseq | Torat Chayim (25/06/18) | Link to YouTube Video |
| Professor Zvi Zohar | The Approach of Hakham Benzion Uziel | Habura (01/10/20) | Link to YouTube Video |
| Porfessor Zvi Zohar | The Approach of Yisrael Moshe Hazzan | Habura (09/12/20) | Link to YouTube Video |
| Professor Matt Goldish | A Window Onto the Everyday Life of Sephardim: Through the Lens of Teshubot | Habura (20/01/22) | Link to YouTube Video |
Media
Classes and Lectures
MENA Bibliography
| This page is concerned with books of Jewish History, Islam, Christianity, Philosophy, Arab and Mediterranean History and Culture | |||||||||
| Author | Title | Publisher/Year | ISBN/ASIN | Keywords | Language | Picture | In-Print | ||
| David Abulafia | The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean | Oxford University Press (2011) | 9780195323344 | Mediterranean History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audiobook | ||
| David Abulafia | The Mediterranean in History | Thames and Hudson Ltd (2016) | 9780500292174 | Mediterranean History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Violet Moller | The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found | Picador (2020) | B07H1YGPF1 | Mediterranean History/History of Knowledge | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose | Vintage Classics (2004) | 9780099466031 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Orhan Pamuk | My Name is Red | Faber & Faber (2011) | 9780571268832 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Josephus | The Jewish War | Penguin (1981) | B002RI9Q76 | Jewish History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Simon Sebag-Montefiore | Jerusalem: A Biography | Weidenfeld and Nicholson (2011) | B004KA9VCE | History of Jerusalem | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Mark Mazower | The Greek Revolution; 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe | Penguin (2021) | B08W1TZMG9 | Greek and Ottoman History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Aristotle | The Art of Rhetoric | Penguin Classics (reissue) (1991) | 9780140445107 | Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Richard E. Rubinstein | Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages | Mariner Books (2004) | B003KK5DPO | Philosophy/History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Michael P.Arya | The Essential Avicenna | Xulon Press (2021) | 9781662820960 | Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Averroes | On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy | Gibb Memorial Trust (2012) | 9780718902223 | Philosophy, Spain | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Giambatista Vico | The First New Science | Cambridge University Press (2010) | 9780521387262 | Italian Philosophy | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Edward Said | Orientalism | Penguin Books (2003) | 9780141187426 | Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Audio | ||
| Marc Schade-Poulsen | Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai | University of Texas Press (1999) | 9780292777392 | Algerian Music | English |  | -Yes Book Digital Finding a book on Algerian Rai proved to be difficult. As this was a music scene known also for it's many female singers, I don't think that this book does the genre justice. | ||
| Albert Hourani | A History of the Arab People's | Faber & Faber (2013) | 9780571288014 | Arab History | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Albert Hourani | Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798- 1939 | Cambridge University Press (1983) | 9780521274234 | Enlightenment, Learning | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Butrus al-Bustani (with Ussama Masdiki) | The Clarion of Syria: A Patriot's Call against the Civil War of 1860 | University of California Press (2019) | B07RC592QX | History, Syria, Christian, Co-existence | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Ussama Makdisi | Age of Co-Existence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World | California University Press (2019) | 9780520258884 | Ottoman Society | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour | Poems for the Millennium, Volume 4 | University of California Press (2013) | 9780520273856 | North Africa, Al-Andalus, Berber, Arab, Literature, Jewish, Roman, Phoenician, French | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | Orientalism & the Myth of the Arab Mind | Nova Science Publishers Inc (2016) | 9781634843614 | Orientalism, Middle Eastern Culture | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | The Many Faces of Islam: Perspectives on a Resurgent Civilization | University Press of Florida (2000) | 9780813018072 | Islam | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | Arabs Face the Modern World: Religious, Cultural and Political Responses to the West | University Press of Florida (1998) | 9780813015590 | Contemporary Middle East | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Nissim Rejwan | Nasserist Ideology: Its Exponents and Critics | I.P.S.T (1974) | 9780878551620 | Egyptian Politics | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Sami Zubaida | Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East | I.B. Tauris (2011) | B07PBQ6ZX8 | Middle East, Extremism, Cosmopolitanism, Imperialism, Culture | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Christopher de Bellaigue | The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason | Vintage (2018) | 9780099578703 | Nada, Enlightenment, Culture | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Reza Aslan | No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam | Random House Trade Paperback (2005) | 9780812982442 | Islam, Contemporary Islam, Misconceptions | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Karen Armstrong | Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet |
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| Islam, Mohammed | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Translation by N.J. Dawood | The Quran: With Parallel Arabaic Text | Penguin Classics (2015) | 9780141393841 |
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| Sarah Stroumsa | Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn Al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr Al Razi | Brill (1999) | 9789004113749 | Islam | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Joel Kraemer | Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam | Brill Academic (1987) | 9789004072589 | Islam | English |  | -No Book | ||
| Amin Maalouf | The Crusades Through Arab Eyes | Saqi books (1984) | 9780863560231 | History | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Edited by Marion Baraltser | Plays by Mediteranean Women | Aurora Metro Publications (1994) | 9780951587737 | Culture | English |  | -Yes Book | ||
| Nawal El-Saadawi | The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World | Zed Books (2015) | 9781783607471 | Sociology | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Naguib Mahfouz | The Cairo Trilogy | Everyman (2001) | 9781857152487 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
| Naghuib Mahfouz | Children of the Alley | Anchor Books (1997) | 9780385264730 | Literature | English |  | -Yes Book Digital | ||
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