Volume 11, Issue 1
Winter 2021

Dear readers of Sephardic Horizons: we have just posted a new issue, volume 11, number 1, Winter 2021, with essays by Marvin Heller on Jewish printing in Fez, Marc Leepson on Uriah Levy’s Monticello, a story about Morocco, and an article about the Haluqah system in the Caribbean. We also have two articles in Ladino, by Rachel Bortnick and Karel Valansi, three review articles covering Iraq, Syria and Turkish Jews in France during the Holocaust, and two more fascinating reviews.

Editors’ Note
Judith Roumani and Annette B. Fromm

Articles

A Fleeting Moment, A Short-lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth Century Fez
Marvin J. Heller

“Land and Sea” (Short story)
Julie Rosenzweig

Uriah Levy: The Sephardic Jewish Navy Commodore Who Saved Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Mark Leepson

The Caribbean Sephardim in the Ḥaluqah System: From Jerusalem to the West Indies and Back
Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota

In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish:

Ladino i Yo
Karel Valansi

La Komunidad Sefaradia de Izmir, Entonses i Agora
Rachel Amado Bortnick

Review Articles

Henriette Asséo, Annie Bellaïche Cohen, Muriel Flicoteaux, Corry Guttstadt, Xavier Rothéa, Sabi Soulam, Alain de Toledo, editors, Muestros Dezaparesidos, Mémorial des Judéo-Espagnols déportés de France, 2019.
Reviewed by Albert Garih

“Through the World of Books without a Map: An Ongoing Journey: The Farhi Palace of Damascus, Syria.” Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late18th and 19th Centuries, with contributions by Ezra Ashkenazie, Jeffery Burden, George H. Lewis, Judith S. McKenzie, and Jason Montgomery. Annual of the American School of Oriental Research, Volume 72 in collaboration with Manar Al-Athar, University of Oxford, 2018.
Reviewed by Bension Varon

“The history of Iraqi Jews as told by an Iraqi Muslim Author: Review and Commentary.” Nabil Abd al-Amir al-Rubei’i Lamahat min Tarikh yehud al-Iraq (Glances from the History of the Jews of Iraq– 859 BC-1973). 2 Vols. Hilla, Iraq: Dar al-Furat Le-thaqafa 2016.
Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Reviews

Schaposchnik, Ana E., The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in 17th-Century Peru. University of Wisconsin Press: 2017.
Reviewed by Karem Lissette Delgado

Angelina Muniz Huberman. Los esperandos: Piratas judeoportugueses . . . y yo. 2020.
Reviewed by Sandra M. Cypess