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Secrets of a Matzah Mantel
Like many adventurous historical quests, uncovering the American Sephardi Federation’s marvelous embroidery and textile collection happened by sheer chance. After overhearing a corridor conversation...
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New at Bookhouse: The Music Room
The Music Room at Bookhouse, a collaborative space of the American Sephardi Federation and Centro Primo Levi. During the past two years, Bookhouse has become home to students and the public for...
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Zack Youcha
Zack Youcha is the founder and Executive Director of Music is Culture (MiC), a nonprofit organization that sponsors, promotes, and publishes community-based music preservation efforts around the world....
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Daniel Elias
Daniel Elias is a founding member of the Elias Ladino Ensemble. The grandson of Rabbi David Elias Cassorla and the son of Joe Elias, he has been performing Ladino music since 1977. Dan learned the...
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Elya Assayag mines the American Sephardi Federation’s Textile Collection
This summer, Elya Assayag has been a fellow at Bookhouse and produced a catalog of the American Sephardi Federation’s textile collection. She was assisted by and trained Michael Fulgencio, who interns...
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NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Elya Assayag
We are delighted to repost this interview conducted by our friend and colleague Lyudmila Sholokhova, Curator of the NYPL Dorot Jewish Division This profile is part of a series of interviews chronicling...
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Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late...
Mostafa Hussein, Princeton University Press, 2025 In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures...
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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Helen Pfeifer, Princeton University Press, 2022 Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In Empire of Salons, Helen...
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Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands
Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Çıpa and Helga Anetshofer, Academic Studies Press, 2018 Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished...
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The Making of Selim
H. Erdem Çipa, Indiana University Press, 2017 The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I (“The Grim”) set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the...
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Jewish Books in North Africa
Noam Sienna, Indiana University Press, 2025 Jewish Books in North Africa delves into the multifaceted significance of books among North African Jews. From the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, this...
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Jews and Muslims in Morocco
Joseph Chetrit, Jane S. Gerber, Drora Arussy, Lexington Books, 2023 Multiple traditions of Jewish origins in Morocco emphasize the distinctiveness of Moroccan Jewry as indigenous to the area, rooted in...
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The Jews of Islam
Bernard Lewis, Princeton University Press, 1987 This landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly...
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Challenging Conventions
Christiane Czygan and Hatice Aynur, De Gruyter Brill, 2025 What is love? What is ʿışḳ? As the core theme of Early Modern Ottoman poetry, love inspired a plethora of Turkish research, the most...
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The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
Dwight F. Reynolds, Taylor & Francis, 2020 The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final...
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The Multiple Identities of the Middle East
Bernard Lewis, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999 Examining religion, race and language, country, nation, and state, Lewis traces the rapid evolution of the identities of the Middle Eastern...
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The Renaissance and the Ottoman World
Anna Contadini, Routledge, 2013 This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the...
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