The new Spring 2019 issue of Sephardic Horizons has just been posted.

[Judith]

Please go to http://.www.sephardichorizons.org to find articles and an interview on the conversos of Brazil, on early Sephardic printing in Turkey, and on Jews in Shanghai, as well as a review in Ladino/Judeo-Spanish of Hernan Rodrigo Fisse's Prefiero Chile. Look also for several interesting reviews. Happy reading!

[Judith]

A new issue of Sephardic Horizons, volume 9, number 3:

The new issue offers a cluster of articles, by Gloria Ascher, Teresa Vilaros, and Ruth Malka, on "Sephardim in the City', i.e. on literature and place, and a short story on Yemenite Jewish women in Jerusalem by Gila Green. We also present Hernan Rodriguez Fisse in Ladino writing about his study trip to Jerusalem, and a number of reviews, including two on 'Arab Jews' and two on the Holocaust and North Africa. Happy reading, and un Anyo de Leche i Miel,

Judith Roumani, Editor

Editors’ Note by Yael Halevi-Wise and Judith Roumani 

Articles

 ‘Sephardim in the City’ group of literary studies, guest editors Jane Mushabac and Yael Halevi-Wise:

1.     Gloria Ascher. The Sephardic Sense of Place(s) in Shalach Manot’s His Hundred Years.

2.     Ruth Malka. From the Orient to the West: Shaping Sephardic Identity in Albert Cohen’s Novels.  

3.     Teresa M. Vilarós. A Non-Place After Destruction: Salvador Espriu’s Key to Salom, Sinera, and Sepharad.

Short Story

Gila Green. Book Talk 

In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish

Hernán Rodríguez Fisse. Jerusalem: Elevo de su Universidad

Reviews

Gila Green. White Zion. West Sommerville, MA: Cervena Barva Press, 2019. Reviewed by Susan Weintrob 

Anne Dublin. A Cage without Bars. Second Story Press, 2018. Reviewed by Annette Fromm

Matti Friedman. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel. Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Samir Nakkash, Tenants and Cobwebs. Reviewed by Nimrod Raphaeli

Albert Memmi. Ed. Guy Dugas. Journal de Guerre 1939-1943. Reviewed by Judith Roumani

Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. The Holocaust in North Africa. Reviewed by Lucia Admiraal