Bulgaria was complicit in the dispossession, torture and murder of thousands of Jews--yet, the Bulgarian government... More > continues to whitewash this fact. While it's known that the Bulgarian government elected not to deport some 50,000 Jews from 'Old' Bulgaria to German death camps in Poland-what is not known is that Bulgaria was directly complicit in the murder of some 13,000 Jews from 'New' Bulgaria (Thrace and Macedonia). < Less

ECLECTIC MISCELLANY: SELECT ESSAYS ON THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE is a volume of collected essays from the 18th and 19th century,... More > on topics related to the wide scope of the Jewish experience from Spain to India, from Ottoman Turkey to the American Jews and from the Jews of Eastern Europe to the Holy Land and out to Ethiopia. < Less

This book is set to serve as a primer for those first learning or yet unfamiliar with the plight of the descendants of the... More > anousim. Anousim generally means ‘forced ones’ or ‘coerced,’ in Hebrew. These are the Jews that because of 14th and 15th century coercion, (before and during the Inquisitions in Spain and Portugal), concealed their Judaic observance while acting like they were newly baptized Catholics. The word anousim not only refers to the original generation of forced ones, but also to the descendants of the original generation who today are coming out after centuries of darkness, searching for the light of truth, often still called marranos and for various reasons, crypto-Jews. < Less

A concise guide to the relationship and conspiracy of the Nazis and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in North Africa and the... More > Middle East during the era of the Holocaust < Less

History, Politics & Loss: Selected Writings of Shelomo Alfassá is collection of 62 selected papers, both published and... More > unpublished, written between 1998-2008, on various topics related to history, the political world and the loss of select Jewish personalities. Papers on history include topics related to Iberian and Ottoman Jewry, North African and other Jewry; population movements, prominent rabbis and other Jewish figures. There are several papers related to 20th century history in regard to Zionism, revisionism, and the Middle East. There is a section on the loss of prominent 20th century figures; this includes obituaries on rabbinical leaders, academicians and other noteworthy individuals. < Less

'The Palm Tree of Deborah' (Tomer Deborah) is an ethical discourse devoted to the doctrine of the imitation of the Almighty.... More > This pietistic volume was written by Rabbi Moshe Kordovero in the 16th century. In his book, Kordovero proceeds systematically through the various known attributes of God and explains how we as humans can work on improving ourselves by imitating those attributes to the best of our ability. It was named after the Book of Judges 4:5: “As she sat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-El in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.” < Less

[HARD COVER EDITION] ETHNIC SEPHARDIC JEWS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE - The Sephardic Jews make
up the second largest... More >st division of the Jewish population; they have their historic
roots in Spain, Portugal and North Africa, as well as due to migrations, in
Mesopotamia and Arabia. Sephardic Jews comprise the second largest group in
the Jewish population after Ashkenazic Jews that stem from Eastern Europe. Sephardim
have developed and possess a shared relationship based upon unique religious
traditions, collective ideals, customs and ethnicity.
Sephardic and Ashkenazic
Jews were geographically and religiously separate populations. Because of this
separation, these two populations often display significant differences in the
incidence of genetic diseases and medical conditions. ISBN 978-0-9763226-6-5 < Less

[SOFT COVER] ETHNIC SEPHARDIC JEWS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE - The Sephardic Jews make
up the second largest division of... More >f the Jewish population; they have their historic
roots in Spain, Portugal and North Africa, as well as due to migrations, in
Mesopotamia and Arabia. Sephardic Jews comprise the second largest group in
the Jewish population after Ashkenazic Jews that stem from Eastern Europe. Sephardim
have developed and possess a shared relationship based upon unique religious
traditions, collective ideals, customs and ethnicity.
Sephardic and Ashkenazic
Jews were geographically and religiously separate populations. Because of this
separation, these two populations often display significant differences in the
incidence of genetic diseases and medical conditions. ISBN 978-0-9763226-0-3 < Less

A Window Into Old Jerusalem: Observations about Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1820-1920

The accounts provided in this book... More > come from various sources including visitors that passed through Jerusalem and its environs in a period when the Holy Land was transitioning from an old Turkish possession to administration under the British. It was during this period that travel to the Near East had become quite fashionable, as the “Orient” was almost always described as exotic, unusual and mysterious. A Window Into Old Jerusalem will provide the reader with a 'look’ back to see what life was like for those living in and around the city that sits at the center of the world. < Less

The International Sephardic Journal (ISJ) is a multi-disciplinary publication featuring scholarly works related to Sephardim... More > (the descendants of the Jews of historic Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the former Ottoman Empire who share common religious and cultural bonds). < Less