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	Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (5 Vols.)	Norman Stillman	The goal of the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World" is to cover an area of Jewish history, religion, and culture which until now has lacked its own cohesive/discrete reference work. The Encyclopedia aims to fill the gap in academic reference literature on the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods. The Encyclopedia is planned as a four-volume bound edition containing approximately 2,250 entries and 1.5 million words with an additional index volume. Entries will be organized alphabetically by lemma title (headword) for general ease of access and cross-referenced where appropriate. Additionally the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World" will contain a special edition of the Index Islamicus with a sole focus on the Jews of Muslim lands. An online edition will follow after the publication of the print edition. If you require further information, please send an e-mail to ejiw@brill.nl. To access the contributor website (user-id and password required), please click here.
	Jews and Muslims in the Islamic World	Zvi Zohar; Bernard Dov Cooperman	Essays on the symbiotic relation ship between Jews and Muslims, including their history, social life, architecture, religion, music, and literature.
	Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times	Aron Rodrigue	Following the rise of Islam, many Jewish communities lived in predominantly Muslim lands. Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged until the modern period when European colonialism and the emergence of Zionism and Arab nationalism led to growing friction and conflict, resulting in the mass departures of Jews from these lands in the middle of the twentieth century.
	The Jews of the Ottoman Empire	Avigdor Levy	Offers a contribution to Jewish as well as to Ottoman, Balkan, Middle Eastern, and North African history. These twenty-eight essays deal with the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire, from the Balkans and Anatolia to Arabia, from Mesopotamia to North Africa. These essays grew out of an international conference at Brandeis University.
	Esther’s Children: A portrait of Iranian Jews	Houman Sarshar	This magnificent volume makes available for the first time a comprehensive history of the Jews of Iran -- from their earliest documented settlement in that land in 722 B.C.E. through the end of the 20th century.
	New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq	Orit Bashkin	Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community―which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years―was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, focusing on Iraqi Jews who internalized narratives of Arab and Iraqi nationalisms and on those who turned to communism in the 1940s As the book reveals, the ultimate displacement of this community was not the result of a perpetual persecution on the part of their Iraqi compatriots, but rather the outcome of misguided state policies during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sadly, from a dominant mood of coexistence, friendship, and partnership, the impossibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence became the prevailing narrative in the region―and the dominant narrative we have come to know today.
	Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era	Julia Phillips Cohen	Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It begins with the process set in motion by the imperial state reforms known as the Tanzimat, which spanned the years 1839-1876 and legally emancipated the non-Muslims of the empire. Four decades later the situation was difficult to recognize. By the close of the nineteenth century, Ottoman Muslims and Jews alike regularly referred to Jews as a model community, or millet-as a group whose leaders and members knew how to serve their state and were deeply engaged in Ottoman politics. The struggles of different Jewish individuals and groups to define the public face of their communities is underscored in their responses to a series of important historical events.
	Sephardim in 20th Century America: In Search of Unity	Joseph M. Papo
	Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History	Aviva Ben-Ur	A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct languages, cultures, and rituals, Sephardim and Arab-speaking Mizrahim were not readily recognized as Jews by their Ashkenazic coreligionists. At the same time, they forged alliances outside Jewish circles with Hispanics and Arabs, with whom they shared significant cultural and linguistic ties
	Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past	Kerem Tinaz and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano	Sephardic Trajectories brings together scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies to discuss how family heirlooms, papers, and memorabilia help us conceptualize the complex process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. To consider the shared significance of family archives in both the United States and in Ottoman lands, the volume takes as starting point the formation of the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection at the University of Washington, a community-led archive and the world’s first major digital repository of archival documents and recordings related to the Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean world. Contributors reflect on the role of private collections and material objects in studying the Sephardi past, presenting case studies of Sephardic music and literature alongside discussions of the role of new media, digitization projects, investigative podcasts, and family memorabilia in preserving Ottoman Sephardic culture.

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