Editor’s Note
Judith Roumani

Articles

Another Bureaucratic Dance for the Sephardim
The Iberian Naturalization Laws of 2015
Lauren Weiner

A Year of War
The Inner Powers of a Nation Seeking Life
Haim Sabato
Translated by Michael Lowy

Rabbi Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
A Medieval Sephardi Kabbalist
Marvin J. Heller

Judah ha-Levi ben Isaac ibn Shabbetai
His Medieval Jewish Satires
Marvin J. Heller

In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish

Kaminitos de Leche i Miel
Small Paths of Milk and Honey
Beatriz Gómez Acuña

Reviews

Blanche Bendahan
Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino. eds.
Mazaltob: A Novel
Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2024
Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Alfred Ascher
Introduction and translation by Gloria J. Ascher
The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews
from Turkey to America during World War I
Boulder, CO: Albion-Andalus, 2023
Reviewed by Canan Bolel

Nancy Ludmerer
Sarra Copia:
A Locked-In Life
Santa Rosa, CA: WTAW Press, 2023
Reviewed by Ruth Ohayon

Debby Koren
Responsa in a Historical Context:
A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities
-through Sixteenth – and Seventeenth – Century Responsa
(Studies in Orthodox Judaism)
Newton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2024
Reviewed by Andrew Apostolou

Nathan Katz
Jews and India
Mutual Influences over Two Millennia
New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2023
Reviewed by Sayan Lodh

Josh Tuininga
We Are Not Strangers
A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2023
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

Ruth Behar
Across so Many Seas
New York: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024
Reviewed by Christina Karageorgou-Bastea

Yosef Ohayon ben Yaakov (Producer)
Chanukah Concert in Jerusalem at Mahon Hadar Bayt le Kehillot Sharot
Dec. 25, 2024
Reviewed by Navah Shemesh

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