Sephardic Horizons seeking reviewers

[Annette Fromm]

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  

reviews should be returned as attached documents, at annett...@hotmail.com.

 

Books available for review are listed below. Please note two books are only available in e-book format:

Yaron Ayalon

Ottoman Jewry: Leadership, Charity, and Literacy

Brill, 2024

 

Aviva Ben-Ur & Wim Klooster, editors

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World

Cornell University Press, 2024

 

Francisco Bethencourt

Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite 

Princeton University Press, 2024

 

Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber (illustrator)

Undesireables, A Holocaust Journey to North Africa

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 2023

 

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

Sephardi Orature and the Myth of Judeo-Spanish Hispanidad

OpenbookPublishers, ebook

 

Brahim El Guabli and Mostafa Hussein, editors

Remembering Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Media

Penn State University Press, 2024

 

Harry Freedman

Shylock's Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice's Jews and the Ghetto

Singer Publicity, 2024

 

Jonathan Hirsch, Sina Rauschenbach, Carsten Schapkow, eds. 

Sephardic History Beyond Europe 

Berlin: Jahrbuch, Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, 2024

 

Anastasios Karababas

In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

Vallentine Mitchell, 2024

 

Anthony McElligott

The Last Transport, The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean

Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

 

Tony Molho

Courage and Compassion, A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece

New York: Berghahn, 2024

 

Aviad Moreno

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community

Indiana University Press, 2024

 

Jay Prosser

Loving Strangers, A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns

Black Spring Press Ltd, 2024

 

Adam Rovner

The Jew Who would be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa

University of California Press, 2025

 

Yaron Tsur

Jews in Muslim Lands, 1750-1830: The Ottoman Middle East (Vol I)

Liverpool University Press, 2023

 

Matthew Warshawsky

From New Christians to New Jews: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Texts in Defense of Judaism 

Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2024

 

Carlos Yebra Lopez

Ladino on the Internet

Routledge, 2024

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