Volume 11, Issue 4
FALL 2021
Editor’s Note
Annette B. Fromm
Articles
Moses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika
Marvin J. Heller
Song in my Heart, A Memoir of Days Spent with Moshe Ha Elion, a Survivor of the Shoah
Judith Lin
Sephardic Horizons in the Context of Electronic Publishing
Judith Roumani
In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish:
Revista, Dina Danon, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press: 2020.
Rachel Amado Bortnick
Reviews
Francesca Trivellato, The Promise and the Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us About the Making of European Commercial Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Jane Gerber
Leon Saltiel. The Holocaust in Thessaloniki, Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution: 1942–1943. London: Routledge, 2020.
Reviewed by Steven Bowman
Leah Davcheva. Kaleidoscope of Identities. Tales of Ladino by Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Riva Publication, 2021 (in Bulgarian).
Reviewed by Zdravka Mihaylova
Jonathan Schorsch, Andrée Aelion Brooks, and Ruth K. Abrahams. The Remarkable Life of Luis Moses Gomez. Coxsackie: Flint Mine Press, 2021.
Reviewed by Rochelle Strauss
Stanley Mirvis. Jamaican Jewry: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Michael Rom
Yael Halevi-Wise. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua. Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA, 2021.
Reviewed by Phillip Hollander
Orit Abuhav, Yoram Bilu, and Hagar Salamon (editors). The Jews of Libya and Their Environment: the Ethno-Historical Studies of Harvey Goldberg. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2020 (in Hebrew).
Reviewed by Rachel Simon
Jonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman (editors). The Albert Memmi Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Reviewed by Judith Roumani
Alain Nedjar, Gilles Boulu, Liliane Nedjar and Raphaël Attias. Registres de Ketubbot de la Nation Juive de Livourne (1626-1890). Paris: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, 2020.
Reviewed by Bernard Cooperman
Laura Arnold Leibman. The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2020.
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm
Sarit Yishai-Levi. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem: A Novel. 2013. Trans. Anthony Berris. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Reviewed by Beth Dwoskin
Fuente: sephardichorizons.org