Sephardic Horizons, Volume 9, Issues 1&2 – 2019

Volume , Issues 1&2
2019

Editor’s Note
by Judith Roumani and Annette B. Fromm

Articles

Silas’s Folly: The Beth Aharon Synagogue in Shanghai and How it Saved the Mirrer Yeshiva 
By Vera Schwarcz

Belvedere and Kuru Tsheshme: Sephardic Printing in Late Sixteenth Century Constantinople  
By Marvin J. Heller

From Recife to New York: Dinner with Today’s Conversos of Brazil 
By Vivienne Roumani-Denn

Interview with Arie Toledano, Chairman and Founder of Zera Israel Foundation, Geneva, on Outreach to the Anousim
Email Interview by Judith Roumani

In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish:

Mirar el kafe. meldar el futuro
By Rivka Abiry z»l

Analiz de Livro, Prefiero Chile, de Hernan Rodriguez Fisse
By Rachel Amado Bortnick

Reviews

Margalit Bejarano, Yaron Harel, Marta F. Topel, and Margalit Yosifon, editors. Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America: Historical, Cultural and Literary Perspectives. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017.
Reviewed by Regina Igel

Lucienne Carasso. Growing Up Jewish in Alexandria Egypt. Scotts Valley, CA.: CreateSpace, 2014.
Reviewed by Andre Douek

Naim A. Güleryüz . Tarih Boyunca Trakya ve Anadolu’da Yahudi Yerleşim Yerleri (Areas of Jewish Settlement in Thrace and Anatolia throughout History).Vol. I – Istanbul; Vol. II – Thrace and Anatolia. Istanbul: Gözlem Publisher, 2018.
Reviewed by Bension Varon

Serena Roffe. Branching out from Sepharad. New York: Sephardic Heritage Project, 2017.
Reviewed by Rabbi Haim Ovadia