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Malka, Jeffrey S.
Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.
Avotaynu, 2002.
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Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. --
History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more.
Laredo, Abraham
Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc.
Institut Montano, Madrid, 1978.
Extensive biographic listing with detailed sources, etc. Terrific for genealogists
Toledano, Joseph
La Saga des Familles. Les Juifs du Maroc et leurs noms.
Stavit, Tel Aviv, 1983.
Much smaller, but similar to Laredo's Noms des...... Does not indicate sources
but has many old photos of family members.
Toledano, Joseph
Une Histoire des familles; les Noms de Famille Juifs d'Afrique du Nord.
Jerusalem, 1999.
Includes biographies of past prominent persons and presently living ones.
Malka, Eli
Attal, Robert & Avivi, Joseph
Registres Matrimoniaux de la Communaute Juive Juive Portugaise de Tunis. XVIII-XIX siecles.
Oriens Judaicus, Institut Ben Zvi, Israel 1989.
Listing of marriages that occurred in the Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis which kept itself separate from the local Tuansa Jews and kept careful records.
Excellent (French and Hebrew editions).
Attal, Robert & Avivi, Joseph
Registres Matrimoniaux de la Communaute Juive Juive Portugaise de Tunis. 1843-1854.
Oriens Judaicus, Institut Ben Zvi, Israel 2000.
Additional marriages (from an book of registers recently discovered by Attal) of the
Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis. Excellent.
Zafrani, Haim.
Juifs d'Andalousie et du Maghreb. (Jews of Andalusia and of the Maghreb).
Paris, Maisonneuve & Larose, 1996.
Essential reading by the foremost authority on the Maghreb and Jewish Andalusia.
Attal, Robert
Les Juifs d'Afrique du Nord - Bibliographie; edition refondue et elargie.
Jerusalem, Institut Ben-Zvi, 1993.
Essential bibliography reference. Covers North
Africa in general, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli. 10,062 citations.
Attal, Robert
Ketubot d'Afrique du Nord a Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, 1984
113 ketubot summaries in Ben Zvi Institute, (Jewish National University Library and
Israel Museum)
Avivi, Joseph
Manuscrits des Juifs des Maghreb a l'Institut Ben Zvi.
Institute Ben Zvi, Israel.
Lists the manuscripts of Jews of the Maghreb at the Institute Ben Zvi.
Bruno, Louis & Malka, Elie
Receuil de textes Judeo-Arabes de Fes.
Hautes Etudes Marocaines, Rabat 1939.
Collection of Jewish primary documents from Fes.
Deshen, Shlomo
The Mellah Society.
University of Chicago Press 1989.
Best description of Jewish society in pre-colonial Morocco by a noted Professor and expert.
Highly recommended.
Romanelli, Samuel
Travail in an Arab Land.
University of Alabama Press 1989.
Uncannily accurate and beautifully written travelogue of an eighteenth century Italian
Jew's 4 year stay in Morocco. Highly recommended. (Excellent translation from the poetic Hebrew by Stillman).
Ashtor, Eliyahu
The Jews of Muslim Spain.
Published by Jewish Publications Society, 1993.
A "classic", though dated.
Gerber, Jane
Jewish Society in Fez 1450-1700: Studies in Communal and economic life.
Leiden. E. J. Brill 1980.
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Very thorough scholarly study of Jewish life in ancient Fez.
Editions du Scribe
Juifs d'Egypte, Images et Textes.
2nd Ed. Les Editions du Scribe 1984.
Compedium of photographs and images brought together by Jews from Egypt. Beautiful and well done.
Editions du Scribe
Les Juifs du Maroc, Images et Textes.
2nd Ed. Les Editions du Scribe 1991.
Compedium of photographs and images brought together by Jews from Morocco. Beautiful.
Editions du Scribe
Les Juifs de Tunisie, Images et Textes.
2nd Ed. Les Editions du Scribe 1991.
Compedium of photographs and images brought together by Jews from Tunisia. Beautiful.
Sebag, Paul
Les Noms Des Juifs de Tunisie: Origines Et Significations.
Paris: Harmattan, 2002.
Dictionary of Tunisian Jewish names. Has a number of errors but otherwise a good resource of names.
Laskier, Michael M.
The Jews of Egypt. 1920-1970.
NY Univ Press, 1992.
The last decades of the the Jewish community of Egypt.
Laskier, Michael M.
The Alliance Israelite and the Jewish Communities of Morocco 1862-1962.
Albany, State U of NY Press, 1983.
Filled with hard to find facts like all Laskier's books.
Laskier, Michael M.
North African Jewry in the 20th Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
NYU Press, 1997.
By an expert on Middle Eastern Jewry. Filled with solid facts like all Laskier's books.
Hirschberg, J.W.
A History of the Jews in North Africa (2 vols).
Leiden. E. J. Brill 1974.
Thorough and superb. An absolute must.
Chouraqui, Andre N.
Between East and West. A History of the Jews in North Africa.
Atheneum NY 1973.
Translated from the french. Very informative.
Corcos, David
Studies in the History of the Jews of Morocco.
Rubin Mass, Jerusalem 1976.
Part in English, part in Hebrew.
Salafranca Ortega, J. T.
Historia de la Poblacion Judia de Melilla desde su reconquista por espana hasda 1936.
Detailed study including census sheets, names, photos, and archival sources. By a historian who had lived in Melilla.
Adler, Elkan Nathan
Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages.
Dover Publishers, 1987.
19 fascinating first hand accounts. Entertaining and broadens your perspective.
Goldberg, Harvey
Sephardi and Middle-east Jewries. History and culture in modern times.
Indiana Univ Press, 1996.
Focus is on today.
Goldberg, Harvey
Jewish life in Muslim Libya.
Univ. Chicago Press 1990.
Focus is on today.
Elazar, Daniel J.
The Other Jews. The Sephardim Today.
Basic Books 1992.
Thought provoking book about Sephardim today, both in Israel and around the world. Highly recommended.
Awret, Irene
Days of Honey: The Tunisian Boyhood of Rafael Uzan.
Schocken Books, 1984.
Biography of the early life of a Safed artist's life in a small Tunisian town and his imprisonment in a Nazi camp. By an award winning artist. Excellent.
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