More resources to understand this circuitous, complex, convoluted, and often secret history.
Table of Contents
1. Archival Materials
2. General Books
3. Articles and Websites
4. Portugal and Spain
5. The Ottoman Empire
6. The Ottoman Empire
7. Northern Africa
8. Names and Genealogy
9. Food and Language
1. Archival Materials 2. General Books 3. Articles and Websites 4. Portugal and Spain 5. The Ottoman Empire 6. The Ottoman Empire 7. Northern Africa 8. Names and Genealogy 9. Food and Language
Archival Materials
General Books
Articles and Websites
Portugal and Spain
The Ottoman Empire
The New World
Northern Africa
Names and Genealogy
1. Archival Materials
Two Anti-Jewish Texts from Early Modern Spain:
Excerpts from THE BOOK OF THE ALBORAIQUE and from HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS, DON FERNANDO AND DONA ISABEL
2. General Books
Living in Silverado by David Gitlitz
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves by Julia Beltsiou
The Third Commandment and the Return of the Anusim: A Rabbi’s Memoir of an Incredible People by Stephen Leon
A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People by Eli Barnavi
Jews Under Islam: A Culture In Perspective by Julia Marthe Cohen
Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe by Benito Rial Costas
Boundaries of Jewish Identity by Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff
Jews: The Essence and Character of A People by Arthur Hertzberg
A History of Business in Medieval Europe 1200 – 1550 by Edwin S. Hunt and James M. Murray
The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama
The Haggadah Transcending Time by Marilyn Lande
I See Jews Everywhere, Photomontage of the Story of Jews in Ireland by Marilyn Lande
Jewish History in Miniature, Photos of my miniature Jewish historical rooms by Marilyn Lande
Montage Mysteries, photomontage/prose of the story of Jews in the Baltic region, including Copenhagen, Finland, Sweden, Berlin, Tallinn and St. Petersburg by Marilyn Lande
Juifs du Maghreb: Noms de famille et societe (Jews of the Maghreb; Surnames and Society) by Jacques Taieb
Sefer ner hamaarav (Book of the Candle of the West) by Yaakov Toledano
Het Beth Haim van Ouderkerk by L.A. Vega
Sefer shem hagdolim he-hadash (The New Book: Names of the Renowned Ones) by Aaron Walden
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar
Black Skin in the Middle Ages / La Peau noire au Moyen Âge by Benjamin Braude
Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience by Jane by Jane S. Gerber
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (The Modern Jewish Experience) by Miriam Bodian
The Remarkable Life of Luis Moses Gomez by Andree Aelion Brooks
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition by Doreen Carvajal
Juifs et judaisme à Bordeaux by Gerard Nahon
The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas by Mordechai Arbell
The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity by The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
Sangre judía 2. La brillante estela de los españoles expulsados by Pere Bonnin
Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews by Seth D. Kunin
Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews by David M. Gitlitz
The Lost Minyan by David M. Gitlitz
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews by David M. Gitlitz
THE ENLIGHTENED. The Writings of Luis de Carvajal, El Mozo by S.B. Liebman
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD by Simon Schama
Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391–1392 by Benjamin R. Gampel
Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain by Pamela A. Patton
Odyssey of the exiles: The Sephardi Jews 1492-1992 by Ruth and Varel Harel-Hoshen Porter
Fractured Faiths / Las fes fracturadas: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities by Roger L. Martínez-Dávila, Josef Díaz, D. Hart
The Martyr: Luis de Carvajal, a Secret Jew in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Martin A. Cohen
A Hug From Afar: One family's dramatic journey through three continents to escape the Holocaust by Claire Barkey Flash
Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience by Jane S. Gerber
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources by
Os Judeus que Construíram o Brasil by
How I Found My 15 Grandmothers -Como Encontre A Mis 15 Abuelas: A Step by Step Guide-Una Guia Paso a Paso by Genie Milgrom
The Crown of Solomon and Other Stories by Marc D. Angel
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition by Doreen Carjaval
The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World by Norman Finkelstein
Room of Knowledge: A 21st Century Marrano by Edward Mund Gordon
Foundations of Sephardic Spirituality: The Inner Life of Jews of the Ottoman Empire by Rabbi Marc D. Angel
Luis de Carvajal de la Cueva: Los principios del Nuevo Reino de León by Samuel Temakin
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
Jewry Guide of Segovia by Bonifacio Bartolomé Herrero
El Patrimonio Judio de la Ciudad de Segovia by Bonifacio Bartolomé Herrero
The Medieval Jewish Quarter of Toledo by Jean Passini
La Expulsion de los Judios de Espana
Historia de la Sinagoga de Samuel Ha Leví y del Museo Sefardí de Toledo by Santiago Palomero Plaza
3. Articles and Websites
Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People
Center for Latino-Jewish Relations and Crypto Jewish Studies
Gerard Edery: “A Master of Sephardic Song”
JewishGen.org: Sephardic Research
The Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters (Red de Juderias de Espana)
S&P Central: An Information Hub for Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Communities
The Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture
Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
Shulamit comes out of hiding to finally embrace her jewish roots
In Spain, a Family Reunion, Centuries Later
And Now, via Google Time Travel Through the Streets of Segovia
Trip Will Mark the Anniversary of Azores Synagogue’s Rebrith
The Inquisition: A Model for Modern Interrogators
4. Portugal and Spain
Sangre Judia (vols. 1 and 2) by Pere Bonnin (Flor del Viento) (Spanish)
The Forgetting Rivet - A novel by Doreen Carvajal in which she explores her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish ancestry
The Blind Eye, A Sephardic Journey by Marcia Fine
Sephardim: History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal by James Finn
The Jews of Spain by Jane S. Gerber
Women in the Inquisition by Mary E. Gilles
The Lost Minyan by David M. Gitlitz
Secrecy of Deceit by David M. Gitlitz
Room of Knowledge: A 1st Century Marrano by Edward Mudd Gordon
The Last Jew by Noah Gordon
Sephardim: The Spirit that Has Withstood the Times by Piet Huisman
Spain 1469 - 1714: A Society of Conflict by Henry Kamen
Spain and the Jews by Elie Kedourie
The Jews in the Crown of Aragon: Regesta of the Cartas Reales in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon by Maria Cinta Mane and Gemma Escriba
Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain by Vivian B. Mahn
The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal
The Jews of the Kingdom of Valencia; from Prosecution to Expulsion, 1391 - 1492 by Jose Hinojosa Montalvo
Three Jewish Communities in Medieval Valencia by J. Donate Sebastia and R.R. Magdalena Nom de Deu
The End of Days by Erna Paris
Traces of Sepharad (Huellas de Sefarad) by Mark Shanker
Judios de Toledo (Jews of Toledo) by Pilar Leon Tello
The Spanish Jews by Felipe Quiros, Bernaldo De Torroba
Faith of Remembrance by Nathan Wachtel
Characters of the Inquisition by Thomas Walsh
Don Quixote: Interdisciplinary Connections by Mathew Warshawsky
5. The Ottoman Empire
The Crown of Solomon and Other Stories by Marc D. Angel
Foundations of Sephardic Spirituality: The Inner Life of Jews of the Ottoman Empire by Marc D. Angel
The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes by Marianna D. Birnbaum
The Woman Who Defied Kings: The Life and Times of Dona Gracia Nasi by Andree Aelion Brooks
Les Juifs de Salonique 1492-1943 (The Jews of Thessaloniki) by Elie Carosso
Salonica: City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower
L’Histoire des Israelites de Salonique (The History of the Jews of Thessaloniki) by Joseph Nehama
6. The New World
Brazil
The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World by Seymour B. Liebman
Golden Bracelets, Common Threads by Steve Vajda
Mexico
The Desert Remembers my Name, On Family and Writing by Kathleen Alcala
The Portal of Light by Anthony Garcia
Caribbean
The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas by Mordechai Arbell
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
USA
The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite by Stephen Birmingham
Paper Children, An Immigrant’s Legacy by Marcia Fine
Remnants of Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans by Gloria Golden
To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico by Stanley Hordes
Juggling Identities: Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews by Seth D. Kunin
My 15 Grandmothers by Genie Milgrom
Mis 15 Abuelas by Genie Milgrom
How I Found My 15 Grandmothers by Genie Milgrom
7. Northern Africa
Les Commercants du roi: Tujjar al-sultan, (The Merchants of the Sultan) by Michel Abitbol
Malkhei Rabanan, (Biographical Dictionary of the Rabbis of Morocco) by Yosef Benaim
Les noms des Juifs du Maroc: essai d’onomastique Judeo-marocaine, (The Surnames of Moroccan Jews: Essay on Judeo-Moroccan Onomasti
8. Names and Genealogy
Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames by Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares and Anna Rosa Campagnan (Avotaynu)
Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World by Jeffrey Malka (Avotaynu)
SephardicGen Database by Jeffrey Malka
Guidebook for Sephardic and Mizrahi Genealogical Resources in Israel by Mathilde Tagger and Yitzchak Kerem (Avotaynu)
The Meaning of Some Common Sephardic Last Names by Miriam P. Raphael
Les noms des Juifs de Grece (Names of the Jews of Greece) by Jeans and Elie Carasso
Les Juifs d’Afrique de Nord: demographie et onomastique (The Jews of North Africa: Demography and Onomastics) by Maurice Eisenbeth
Histoire de familles; les noms de famille juifs d’Afrique de Nord (History of Families; the Jewish Surnames of North Africa
The Sephardic Onomasticon by Baruh Pinto
9. Food and Language
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipe’s of Spain’s Secret Jews by David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson
Sabores de Sefarad: Los Secretos Gastronomia Judeoespanola (Sephardic Flavors: The Jewish Spanish Gastronomic Recipes)
What Is Ladino, And Where Is It Spoken? by Thomas Moore Devlin
The Eleven Best Expressions and Ladino Phrases to Know by Devin E. Naar and Ty Alhadeff
The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
King Solomon's Table by Joan Nathan
