Previous Issues
Volume 2
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