sephardim

"A young boy celebrates his Sephardic Jewish cultural tradition of naming children after grandparents"--Publisher.

Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability -- and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place," she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on "the Rock" -- arguably Britain's most important strategic territory -- and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.

Just as her ancestors were forced to leave Spain during the Inquisition, Flory flees Europe for a new life in the United States, bringing with her a precious harmoniku and a passion for Ladino music.

This graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang.

A collection of fiction writing, memoirs, essays, and poetry from twenty-eight Jewish-Spanish writers spanning 150 years of history.

Collection of more than sixty-five stories, poems, and plays by American Jews of Sephardic descent.

Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.

Provides an account of the author's life growing up in mid-century Brooklyn as the Jewish-Arabic child of an Iraqi father and Syrian mother. Explores his artistic awakening in the context of his Sephardic community. Compares the tension between the Arab and Jewish nations to the tensions in his family and within himself.

Introductory text and captioned photographs introduce the current descendants of the exiled Jews from Spain (now called the Sephardim).