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