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"Lettres à mon père" de Josy Adida-Goldberg
Nous vous invitons à découvrir en exclusivité la première publication de la rubrique Salon de lecture :
L’auteur est née à Constantine en 1929. Issue de la bourgeoisie juive, elle vit avec sa famille dans le quartier européen. Son bisaïeul Salomon, originaire de Tétouan, a créé l’école du Talmud Torah en 1912.
Josy enseigne les Lettres à l'Ecole professionnelle O.R.T, et reçoit en 1963 le 2e prix de comédie moderne au conservatoire de Strasbourg. En 1997, à 68 ans, elle entreprend des études littéraires à l'Université Paris 7, où elle obtient une maitrise avec mention T.B en 2003.
Dans son livre Les Deux Pères (2008), elle évoque la vie à Constantine, le déroulement des fêtes juives, ses amitiés avec des hommes de lettres, tels que Francis Ponge ou Emmanuel Roblès, mais aussi le pogrom de 1934, la montée des lois antijuives, l’abrogation du décret Crémieux et les premiers attentats de la guerre d’Algérieץ
TWO NEW MATRIMONIAL REGISTRIES OF THE PORTUGUESE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF TUNIS IN THE 19 TH CENTURY
After the publication of three matrimonial registries of the Portuguese (Livornese) Jewish community in Tunis in 1989 and 2000 by Robert Attal and Joseph Avivi of Ben-Zvi Institute, the authors (Gilles Boulu and Alain Nedjar), members of the research group « Tunisia » of the Jewish Genealogy Circle, France, are part of the discovery of two additional registers containing marriage contracts of this community of Italian-Iberian Jews called " Grana ". These two registers complement fortunately this series which originally included 10 records ranging from 1754 to 1917. These volumes number 3 (1812-1844) and 6 (1872-1881) containing respectively 429 and 234 different Ketûbbot, now allow access, with previous records, to an exceptional Ketûbbot corpus, continuously between 1788 and 1881. The authors present the contents of these two registers, collect statistics on this community and give some examples of genealogy now made possible in combination with other sources.
New Novel Highlights 18th-Century Caribbean Sephardic History
The Marriage of Opposites, a new novel by acclaimed author Alice Hoffman, depicts the tale of Rachel, mother of the great Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), and wife of Frederic Pissarro, a Spanish-Portuguese Jew living on the island of St. Thomas. For more on the book, please see:
http://alicehoffman.com/books/the-marriage-of-opposites/synopsis/
For more on Camille Pissarro’s Sephardic heritage:
http://www5.tau.ac.il/arts/departments/images/stories/journals/arthistory/Assaph5/01rachum.pdf
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Dans le cadre des travaux entrepris par le Cercle de Généalogie Juive, et comme vous avez pu le voir à l’occasion du Congrès mondial de généalogie, vous signaler la parution prochaine du livre sur les nouveaux registres matrimoniaux de la communauté portugaise de Tunis. Gilles Boulu et moi-même avons travaillé sur cet ouvrage depuis plus d’un an.
Notre ouvrage correspond au deuxième volume de la série consacrée aux "Sources pour la Généalogie des Juifs de Tunisie " après la parution en début d'année de celui traitant des Protégés du consulat de France.
Il va beaucoup plus loin que les ouvrages précédents de Robert Attal et Joseph Avivi car nous présentons ces registres de manière très détaillée et y avons inclus des centaines de notices généalogiques plus 5 monographies familiales. Figurent également une étude sur les calligraphies rabbiniques et différents documents. Nous avons utilisé de nombreuses sources pour écrire les notices sur les personnages dont celles du CADN, BECANE et l'Etat civil de Livourne.
Notre livre qui va paraître en novembre 2015 et pour lequel nous lançons une souscription porte le titre suivant :
Gilles Boulu et Alain Nedjar
La communauté juive portugaise de Tunis
Dite livournaise ou Grana
Registres matrimoniaux
1812-1844 et 1872-1881
(avec notices généalogiques)
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NISSIM MOSES, BENE ISRAEL OF INDIA: HERITAGE & CUSTOMS (MUMBAI: BENE ISRAEL HERITAGE MUSEUM AND GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH CENTRE, RALPHY JHIRAD, PUBLISHER, 2015). $120. RALPHY44@GMAIL.COMTEL: 91 9819111340
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MEIR HAZAN, MISHPACHAT RO’EH, M’TAAMEI TUNISIA SHE’ILAN AHAV (TEL AVIV: NITZE VEKESET, 2015). PO BOX 37307, TEL AVIV 61372, ISRAEL. TEL: 972-3-6479662.
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HANNA COHEN PEREZ AND RUTH MORATT HADDAD, CONTEMPLER LA BEAUTE, C’EST PRIER - TUNISIE
(ISRAEL, 2008).
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DR. ELIOZ ANTEBI-HEFER, BLOSSOMS OUT OF BUDS, THE AMAING STORIES OF THE ANTEBY FAMILY, AN HISTORICAL NOVEL, (TEL AVIV: THE ALEPPO HERITAGE CENTER (ARAM ZOVA), 2011) [HEBREW]
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JOVAN CULIBRK, HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN YUGOSLAVIA (BELGRADE: FACULTY OF ORTHODOX “THEOLOGY, THE NSTITUTE FOR THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2014). WWW.EPARHIJA-SLAVONSKA.COMJOVAN.CULIBRK@GMAIL.COM">WWW.EPARHIJA-SLAVONSKA.COMJOVAN.CULIBRK@GMAIL.COM
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FROM: MIEKE VAN EGMOND <EGMOND@BRILL.COM>
From Brill: The Ottoman Middle East edited by Eyal Ginio and Elie Podeh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISBN: 978-90-04-24613-3
Series and Volume number: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume 55
List price EUR: 109 / List price US$: 141 462-6420
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Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage Folktales, Legends, and Letters
Authored and Edited by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Peninnah Schram
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield, www.rowman.com
800-462-6420
About the Authors/Editors
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is rabbi emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck and director of the Religion, Spirituality, and
the Arts Initiative at Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary. She is an award-winning author with more
than half a million books in print and a popular speaker.
Peninnah Schram is professor emerita at Yeshiva University. An internationally renowned storyteller, she is a featured
presenter at storytelling festivals, synagogues, and as an artist-in-residence. She is the author of twelve notable books of
Jewish folktales and has received prestigious storytelling and educational awards.
About Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage
Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage is a treasury of tales that speaks to love’s blessing and challenge. From biblical times to present, this book shares powerful stories about faith and love, even in times of heartbreak. It is an ideal collection for personal reading, to share at weddings or anniversaries, and to explore rich traditions of love.
Praise for Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage
“Reading [this book] is like going to one hundred Jewish weddings—and being inspired by the story behind each one. It will make you want to shout ‘Mazel tov!’”
—Ari L. Goldman, author of The Search for God at Harvard and Being Jewish “This lovely collection of tales should be the first on any list of wedding gifts.” —Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania; editor of Folktales of the Jews “Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage . . . is beautifully and uniquely imagined and assembled.” —Dan Wakefield, author of The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography
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Matthew D. Warshawsky and James A. Parr, Don-Quixote, Interdisciplinary Connections (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta – Hispanic Monographs, 2013).
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Juan de la Cuesta – Hispanic Monographs, 103 Walker Way, Newark, Delaware 19711-6119, USA. 302-453-8695 fax: 302-453-8601 www.JuandelaCuesta.com
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Kathleen Alcala, The Desert Remembers My Name, On Family and Writing (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007). University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona 85721 www.uapress.arizona.edu
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From: sephardimizrahicaucus@googlegroups.com; on behalf of; David Wacks wacks@uoregon.edu
Jewish Tales of Love and Marriage (eds. Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Peninnah Schram) is now available (with the attached form) at a 30% discount from the publisher. It contains a number of texts from Sephardi and Mizrahi traditions, including my translation of Jacob ben Elazar's story of Sahar and Kima (Spain, 13th c.).
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RESLING, ITAMAR BEN-AVI 3, TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 6473623 TEL: 972-3-6956704 WWW.RESLING.CO.IL:
1) Esther Meir-Glitzenstein, The Exodus of the Yemenite Jews, A Failed Operation and a Formative Myth, 2012.[Hebrew]
2) Arie Kizel, The New Mizrahi Narrative in Israel, 2014.[Hebrew]
Dorot, a Bulletin for the Dissemination of the Torah World of Moroccan Jewry, 9 (Nisan 5775 – 2015) [Hebrew] 100 NIS or 60 Euros.
Tel: 972-2-5663666 FAX: 972-2-5004220 ihudkehilot@gmail.com
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Hispania Judiaca Bulletin, Articles, Reviews, Bibliography and Manuscripts on Sefarad, Between Edom and Kedar, Studies in Memory of Yom Tov Assis, Part 2, Volume 11 (2015), Hspania Judaica, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East. Available from hispaniajudaica@gmail.com or bookstore@ybz.org.il
Jovan Culibrk, Historiography of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia (Belgrade: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, The Institute for Theological Research, 2014). Jovan.culibrk@gmail.com www.eparhija-slavonska.com
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Heally Gross, Adulam, “VeShavu Banim Legvulam” (Mateh Yehuda Regional Council and Moshav Mata: Israelim, 2014). Tourism Dept., Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, Israel, www.Israel-im.co.il heallyg@gmail.com New book dealing with formation of the Mateh Yehuda regional council and settlement of moshavim and kibbutzim in the region; amongst them many immigrants from Morocco, Yemen, India, and Kurdistan.
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Adama Ahuva, (Moshav Mata: Israelim, 2013). www.Israel-im.co.il heallyg@gmail.com
Stories of the pioneering settlers, including mostly women, from the mountain range called the Mazleg (the fork) of the Moshavim Nes Harim, Mata, Bar Giora, and Mevo Betar and the community settlement Tzur Hadasa since the 1950s, and their Spartan lives without stable water, without electricity for years, and in light of their proximity to the border. Their lives changed after the Six Day War and they lived much less as border settlements and could visit the former Palestinian village Husan and Hebron. The book collets testimonies from the setllers from North Africa, Kurditsan, Morocco,Eretz-Israel, and Eastern Europe.
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Hamisila LeTzion (Moshav Mata: Israelim, 2012). www.Israel-im.co.il heallyg@gmail.com
Historical account of the settlement of Cochin Jews at Moshav Mesilot Tzion in the Jerusalem Corridor, their work in agriculture on the moshav and their preservation of the Jewish heritage from Cochin and the Kerala region of India.
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Konstantinopol Djudyo - Una Koleksyon de Konsejas i Fotografias / Jewish Constantinople - A Collection of Stories and Photographes
Kohen, Roz
İstanbul, 2015 - Libra Kitap
English - Judeo Spanish - 369 pages
ISBN – 9786059022347
Jewish Constantinople portrays Jewish life during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Republic of Turkey. It spans the two generations prior to the one depicted in Jewish İstanbul. The semi-biographical vignettes feature the Kohen, Benshoam, Levi and Romano family ancestors. The book includes photographs from the Kohen family archives. These were the last generations to grow up speaking Judeo-Spanish. They strove to preserve their native tongue until the changes brought by the two World Wars overwhelmed their efforts. Through the passionate retelling of the previous generation’s stories and the use of colorful Judeo-Spanish proverbs, they sought to preserve not only the language but the cultural history it embodied.
Rıfat BaliLIBRAIstanbulTel : 90 - 212 - 232 99 04 / 05Fax: 90 - 212 - 231 11 29
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Intrigue and Revolution – Chief Rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad and Damascus 1744-1914 (Littman Library Press, 2015).
From the press website's description:
Yaron Harel has constructed a dramatic story of how eleven chief rabbis all became the subject of controversy and were subsequently dismissed. This took place against a background of crime and licentiousness rarely documented in the context of Jewish society. Set firmly in the social and political developments of the time, this colorful picture is very different from the commonly accepted image of Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire.
For more details:
http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/harel-intrigue.html
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IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND BEYOND. A HISTORY OF JEWS AND MUSLIMS (15TH17TH CENTURIES), 2 VOLS.
EDITOR(S):JOSÉ ALBERTO R. SILVA TAVIM, MARIA FILOMENA LOPES DE BARROS, LÚCIA LIBA MUCZNIK LADY STEPHENSON LIBRARY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING 2015
HTTP://WWW.CAMBRIDGESCHOLARS.COM/INTHEIBERIANPENINSULAAND BEYOND
HTTP://WWW.CAMBRIDGESCHOLARS.COM/INTHEIBERIANPENINSULAANDBEYOND2
BOOK DESCRIPTION
THESE BOOKS ARE THE RESULT OF TWO SCIENTIFIC ENCOUNTERS HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA IN 2012, WITH THE THEME “MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN PORTUGAL AND THE DIASPORA. IDENTITIES AND MEMORIES (16TH–17TH CENTURIES)”, AND CO-FINANCED BY THE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND BY FEDER, THROUGH “EIXO I” OF THE “PROGRAMA OPERACIONAL FATORES DE COMPETITIVIDADE” (POFC) OF QREN (COMPETE). BEGINNING WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE FORCED CONVERSION OF IBERIAN JEWS AND MUSLIMS, THESE VOLUMES EXAMINES THE EFFECTS OF THIS ON THEIR RESPECTIVE DIASPORAS, FOCUSING ON A VARIETY OF APPROACHES, FROM LANGUAGE AND CULTURE TO IDENTITY DISCOURSES AND INTERCHANGES BETWEEN THOSE COMMUNITIES.