Sephardic Horizons, the on-line journal of Sephardic studies, has received the following books for review. If you are interested in any of these titles, please send your name, academic affiliation, e-mail address and telephone number, and postal address
where you'd like us to send the book to Annette B. Fromm, Review Editor, Sephardic Horizons,
annett...@hotmail.com.
If this is your first request to review with us, please include a brief description of your qualifications to review the book(s) you are requesting.
Reviewers are expected to complete their reviews within two or three months of receipt of the book. Reviews consist of approximately 1000 to 2000 words, formatted according to the journal’s guidelines (
https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Submit.html). Completed
Abraham, Dahlia
The Stateless Central Asian Merchant: The Life of Haim Aghajan Abraham Based on his Journal
Shamashi Press, 2025
Bitton, Dr. Mijal
Jimena, 2025
Daniels, Jacob
The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
Stanford University Press, June 2025
Ellis, Samantha
Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture
Chatto & Windus, 2025
Freeman Gordon, Carol and Gregoria Bourinos
Maria & Lola: Stories of Survival
Jewish Gen Press, 2025
Kralova, Katerina
Homecoming, Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-1946
The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
Brandeis University Press, 2025
López Asensio, Alvaro
The cuisine of the Jews of Sepharad in the Middle Ages
Certeza-Riopiedras publishing house
Meital, Yoram,
Sacred Places Tell Tales, Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024
Moissis, Alexander
The Lost World of Henriette de Serviana
Independently published, 2025
Jay Prosser
Loving Strangers, A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns
Black Spring Press Ltd, 2024
Rodrigues da Silva Tavim, José Alberto and João Teles e Cunha, eds
Homesickness around the Mediterranean, 1492–1923
Routledge, 2025
Adam Rovner
The Jew Who would be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa
University of California Press, 2025
Sienna, Noam
Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds
Indiana University Press, 2025
HAMAN: A Biography
Princeton University Press, 2025
Simon, Rachel
Cultural, Social, and Political Perceptions in the Folk Literature of Libyan Jews: Life in a Tale
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024
Ward, Sasha and Joana Burger, eds.
Embers of the Ottoman Empire
Warshawsky, Matthew D.
From New Christians to New Jews: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Texts in Defense of Judaism
Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2024
Fiction
Tsabari, Ayelet
Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel
Random House, 2024
Children’s Books
Anyada Buena, Shanah Tovah
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2025
Halahmy, Miriam
A Boy from Baghdad
Green Bean Books, 2024
Dark Shadows Hover
Amsterdam Publishers, 2025
Stempel, Jennifer (Author), Libi Axelrod (Illustrator)
With a Needle and Thread: A Jewish Folktale from Cuba
Kalaniot Books, 2025
Annette B. Fromm, Ph.D.
Associate Director/Review Editor, Sephardic Horizons