Book and Media Store - Ladino,
Language, Literature
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Language
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| Caught
in the Crack (out of stock) |
| Alpert,
Reuven |
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| Encounter
with the Jewish Muslim of Turkey. |
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Ladino
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| Tu Boca en los Cielos |
| Benaim Bunan, Gladys |
| Artist Gladys Benaim Bunan’s beautiful watercolor paintings bring to life the stories of her father, written in the Judeo-Spanish, Haketiya language of the Northern Moroccan Jews. |
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| The
Woman who Defied Kings : History of Donna Grazia Nasi |
| Brooks,
Andree A. |
$20
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| A
Jewish Leader During the Renaissance. |
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| They
Called Me Gigi |
| Cohen,
Berthe |
before $13 now $8 |
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| Touching
and thoughtful remembrances and reflections of a Holocaust
survivor and her post-war struggles in Egypt and France. |
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Language
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| Western
& Eastern Cultures |
| Fischman,
Naomi |
before $10 |
now $5 |
| The
historical encounter between the western and eastern cultures
of Judaism. |
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Language / Literature |
| The
House by the Sea |
| Fromer,
Rebecca C. |
$17
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| A
portrait of the holocaust in Greece. |
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Language
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| Journey
from the Land of No |
| Hakakian,
Roya |
$25
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| An
elegantly written memoir, in which Roya Hakakian recalls
her childhood and adolescence in pre-revolutionary Iran.
Hakakian vividly relates her experiences as a Jewish girl
growing up at a time of cultural and political upheaval. |
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Ladino
/ Language / Literature |
| Ladino Reveries |
| Halio,
Hank (Ed.) |
| Tales
of the Sephardic Experience in America |
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Ladino
/ Language / Literature |
| Orchard
Street Blues |
| Halio,
Hank (Ed.) |
$15 |
| (a play in Ladino and English) |
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Language
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| Survival
and Adaptation |
| Levi,
Joseph Abraham |
$25
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| The
Portuguese Jewish Diaspora in Europe, Africa and the New
World. |
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| Jacob's
Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan |
| Malka,
Eli S. |
$25
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| Historical
work documenting the culture of Sudanese Jewry. |
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Ladino
/ Language / Literature |
| Vagabondo
Eterno |
| Matitiahu,
Margalit |
$15 |
| Poetry
in Ladino and Hebrew. |
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Language
/ Literature |
| Troubled
Souls |
| Meyers,
Charles; Simms, Norman |
$25
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| Conversos,
Crypto-Jews, and Other Confused Jewish Intellectuals from
the 14th through the 18th Centuries. |
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Language
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| Short
Stories by Jewish Writers from Iraq |
| Moreh,
Shmuel |
$22
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| In
Arabic and Hebrew with Extensive Notes in English. |
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Language
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| Sephardic
Folk Dictionary |
| Passy,
Albert |
$45
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| Ladino-English / English - Ladino |
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Language
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| The
Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey |
| Perera,
Victor |
$20
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| Victor
Perera describes the history of his people from the time
of the Inquisition to present day Israel. |
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Language
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| Meshal
Haqadmoni (Out of stock) |
| Sahula,
Isaac Ibn |
$50
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| Fables
from the Distant Past, A Parallel Hebrew-English Text,
Vol. I,II. |
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Language
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| Esther's
Children |
| Sarshar,
Houman |
$100
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| This
remarkable volume provides a comprehensive history of
the Jews of Iran from their earliest documented settlement
in 722 BCE through the end of the 20th century. |
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Language
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| Jewish
Stories: One Generation Tells Another |
| Schram,
Penninah |
$30
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| Schram
is a fantastic story teller and this is a collection of
64 folk tales, myths, etc. |
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Language
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| The
Road to Fez (out of stock) |
| Setton,
R. K. |
$20
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| A
journey of exploration of her family in Morocco. |
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Language
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| Marrano
Mountain: Tales from the Expulsion |
| Shamosh,
Amnon |
$20
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| Three
stories set in the Portuguese village of Belmonte. |
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| My
Sister the Bride: Stories from Aleppo |
| Shamosh,
Amnon |
$15
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| Collection
of short stories. |
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Language
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| Traces of Sepharad / Huellas de Sefarad |
| Shanker, Marc |
$40 |
| Combining memory and imagination Marc Shanker, the author and artist, has created a collection of 45 etchings of Judeo-Spanish proverbs. Accompanying essays place these proverbs in an historical and personal context. Written in English, Spanish and Ladino. |
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Language
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| Jewish
Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel (out of stock) |
| Shenhar,
H. - Bar-Itzhak, A. |
$20 |
| An
exciting contribution to the study of contemporary Jewish
folklore. |
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Language
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| The
Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature |
| Stavans,
Ilan |
$28
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| A
first-time compilation and anthology of fiction, memoirs,
essays, and poetry from 28 Sephardic writers in 18 countries spanning a period
of more than 150 years. The various pieces deal with issues
that resonate within any contemporary multicultural culture:
the status of minorities within the larger society, the opposing
forces of religion and secularism, the tension between a civil,
democratic tradition and the anti-Semitism ready to undermine
it, and the opposing forces of religion and secularism. |
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Language
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| Making
Jews Modern (out of stock) |
| Stein,
Sarah Abrevaya |
$35
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| The
Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires. |
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Language
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| A
Maimonides Reader |
| Twersky,
Isadore |
$23
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| Major
selections from Maimonides writings, including Guide to
the Perplexed, Mishneh Torah, his essays, correspondence
and commentaries. |
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Ladino
Periodical |
| Aki
Yerushalaim |
| Various
Writers |
$10 |
| Ladino Review |
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Various
Languages |
| Alliance
Israelite Universelle |
| Various |
$50
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| Nous Nous Souvenons Alliance |
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