Volume 14, Issue 2
SPRING 2024
Editor's Note
Annette B. Fromm
Articles
Eleanor Roosevelt and the
Immigration of Moroccan Jews to Israel
John Sears
Jacob (Israel) ben Samuel
Hagiz: Scion of a Family of Prominent Sephardic Sages
Marvin J. Heller
The Musical Poetry of
Three Nineteenth Century Sephardic Women
Leonard Stein
My Mother’s Tongue:
Delving into the Sephardic Archive
Nancy Saporta Sternbach
In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish
El Diario de Alfred
Ascher se izo livro!
Gloria J. Ascher
Poezias de Asher Amado
Marso 2024
Primer Golpe de la Aliya
Niso Guvenish
La Maymona
Aaron Shapiro
Reviews
Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, Editors
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean:
A Collection of Stories Curated by Leila Sebbar
Oakland: University of California Press, 2023
Reviewed by Ruth Ohayon
Alan Verskin
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah:
The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni
Through Africa, The Middle East, and Europe
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Mark Verman
Rami Kimchi
Israeli Bourekas Films: Their Origins and Legacy
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Jessica Carr
Michele Sarfatti
I Confini di una Persecuzione,
Il Fascismo e Gli Ebrei Fuori d’Italia (1938-1943)
Roma: Viella, 2023
Reviewed by Andrea Yaakov Lattes
Anthony Gad Bigio
A Sephardi Jewish Patriot:
Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and
the Turkish Republic
London: Hamilton Books, 2024
Reviewed by Rachel Amado Bortnick
Two Sephardic Families Found
Dr. Jeffrey S. Malka
Eight Centuries of a Sephardic Family:
The Malka Family 1282 – 2022
Vienna, Va.: Jeffrey S. Malka, 2022
&
Joe Youcha
What Kind of Past, A Balkan Sephardic Family Story
New York: Jewishgen.Inc, 2023
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm
Dahlia Abraham-Klein
Caravan of Hope: A Bukharan Woman’s Journey to Freedom
Great Neck, NY: Shamashi Press, 2023
Reviewed by Leora Eisenberg
Rahel Musleah, illustrated by Louise August
Why on This Night?
A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration
Moosic, Pa., Kalaniot Books, 2024
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss