Previous Issues
Volume 2
Issue 4
Editor’s Note by Judith Roumani
From Pitigliano to Tripoli via Livorno: The Educational Odyssey of Giannetto Paggi
Ariel Paggi and Judith RoumaniThe Judeo-Livornese (Bagitto) Dialect
Gabriele BedaridaGrowing up Jewish in Benghazi, Libya: Interview with Samuele Zarrugh
Jacques RoumaniDoña Gracia Nasi and her Significance for Jewish History
Andrée Aelion BrooksUn Diya de los Diyas
Haim-Vidal SephihaFrancesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period. Newhaven.Yale University Press.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniIsaac Benatar, Rhodes and the Holocaust: The Story of the Jewish Community from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2010.
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaSephardim in Italy: Two New Publications
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniDoña Gracia Nasi Mendes: A Short Video
Reviewed by Shoshana SegalRobert S. C. Gordon, The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Reviewed by Jacques RoumaniIssue 3
Editor’s Note by Judith Roumani and Eulogy for Rifat Barokas by Ben Barokas
Joseph Levy’s Travel Diary, 1919
Gloria DeVidas KirchheimerThe Origins of the Name Aseo
Mathilde Tagger and Dogan AkmanGrave Matters: Childhood, Identity, and Converso Funerary Art in Colonial America
Laura Leibman and Suzanna GreenblattThe Story of Ladino: From Roots to Branches
Judith Roumani“Zakynthos, Gresia” translated by Rivka Abiry
Leora GoldbergSephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Edited and with an Introduction by Yael Halevi-Wise
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaSandra Shwayder Sánchez, The Secret of a Long Journey
Reviewed by Regina IgelThe Fire Within: A documentary film by Lorry Salcedo Mitrani
Reviewed by Vivienne Roumani-Denn"DeLeon” Concert, May 17, 2012, JCC Auditorium, Rockville Md.
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniIssue 2
New Finds on Greek Jewish Heroism in the Holocaust
Yitzchak KeremThe Ladino Poetry of Hezkia Shemuel Tarica
Ralph TaricaArabic as a Jewish Language, Part III: The Beginning and End of Judeo-Arabic
Sasson SomekhUn Tresoro de los Djidyos: Los Pirke Avot
Santos MayoLa Ora del Avuelo
Rivka AbiryTeófilo Ruíz, “The Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire,” audio course.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani
Issue 1
Arabic as a Jewish Language: Part II, The Judeo-Arabic of the Cairo Geniza
Sasson SomekhOut of Smyrna
Gloria DeVidas KirchheimerSilent Exodus and Forgotten Voices: Sephardic Women Writers in Postcolonial Discourse
Nina LichtensteinA Poem, Claiming Angels
Ronda Angel Arking“Tanto Va el Kantariko”
Rivka AbirySasson Somekh and Deborah Starr, eds., Mongrels or Marvels:
The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohat Kahanoff
Reviewed by Yael Halevi-WiseRoger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Reviewed by Albert Garih
Volume 1
Issue 4
Essay: "Living Between Question Marks” and Four Poems
Ruth Knafo SettonInterview with Flory Jagoda (Part II)
Rosine NussenblattArabic as a Jewish Language: Medieval and Modern (Part I of III)
Sasson SomekhInterview with Sasson Somekh: A Sephardic Jew’s Engagement with Arabic Language and Literature
Judith Roumani and Jacques RoumaniTraces of Sepharad: An Introduction with an etching, “Si neviim no somos, de neviim venimos”
Marc ShenkarKomo deskuvri la sinagoga de Coria
Jacques CoryPasha: Pensamientos de David Aroughetti
Shalach ManotThe Chaste Wife [La muz’er onesta provada por su marido]
by Elia R. Karmona, translated and introduced by Michael Alpert
Reviewed by Ralph TaricaTwo New Books on the Cairo Geniza by Peter Cole/Adina Hoffman and Mark Glickman:
What I Learned and What I Wish I Learned
Reviewed by Bension VaronThree Books on ‘Converso’ Sephardim by Fuat Andic, Gloria Golden, and Yirmiyahu Yovel
Reviewed by Judith Roumani
Issue 3
Models of Sephardic Rabbinic Leadership
Rabbi Marc D. AngelAn Albert Memmi Anthology: Essay, Poems, and an Interview with Albert Memmi by Dov Maimon
Translated by Ralph TaricaTwo Tunisian Jewish Novelists: Claude Kayat and Marco Koskas
Interviewed by Judith RoumaniSephardi Literati in Early Colonial Brazil: A Bitter Taste in the Sugar Plantations
Regina Igel
A Second Sephardic Golden Age:
Economic Role of Iberian Jewry in the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire
David Domínguez-Navarro
La Validja
Rivka Abiry
The Agony of Greek Jews by Steven Bowman
Reviewed by Rosine Nussenblatt
Issue 2
Interview with Israeli Novelist A.B. Yehoshua on his New Novel Hesed Sefaradi [Spanish Kindness]
Judith RoumaniInterview with Flory Jagoda, Part I
Rosine NussenblattIn Search of the Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Finding the Courtyard of the Finzi-Magrinis
Judith RoumaniKalsados [Shoes]
Rivka AbiryToledo: El Secreto Oculto, directed by Jack Matitiahu, DVD
Reviewed by Judith RoumaniBoda: Kantigas de Novia, by the Ensemble Saltiel, CD with booklet material by Judith Cohen
Reviewed by Fuat Andic
Issue 1
Purim and its Relatives in Tripoli: A Comparative Perspective on the Social Uses of Biblical Stories
Harvey GoldbergIn Search of the Family NameTarica: A Genealogical Adventure
Ralph TaricaMexican and Jewish Identity in Herejía, Sabina Berman’s Play on Luis de Carbajal and the Inquisition
Sandra M. CypessMulticulturalism versus Assimilation: Memoirs of a Sephardic Turk.
Bension VaronJewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
Reviewed by Robert NussenblattFriendly Fire By A. B. Yehoshua
Reviewed by Judith Roumani