Volume 16, Issue 1-2, Spring - Summer 2026

Editor's Note
Judith Roumani

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Articles

Scions of a Distinguished Family of Eminent, Prolific, and Scholarly Authors
Part 1 - Joshua Raphael ben Israel Benveniste
Marvin J. Heller

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Scions of a Distinguished Family of Eminent, Prolific, and Scholarly Authors
Part 2 - Hayyim ben Israel Benveniste
Marvin J. Heller

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From Faro to Mantua to London
The Odyssey of Portugal’s First Printed Book
The Faro Pentateuch of 1487
Shlomo Pereira

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The Faro Talmud
Colophon Ambiguities and the Transmission of Sephardic Traditions in the Early Diaspora
Shlomo Pereira

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In Ladino/Judeo-Spanish

Roza i Zimbul
Rosa Ventura

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Akeyas luvias trusheron estos lodos
Denise León

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Reviews

Jacob Daniels, The Jews of Edirne
The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
Stanford University Press, 2025
Reviewed by Anthony Gad Bigio

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Anthony McElligott, The Last Transport
The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean
Bloomsbury, 2024
Reviewed by Paul Isaac Hagouel

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Noam Sienna, Jewish Books in North Africa
Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2025
Reviewed by Noam Stillman

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Christina Karageorgou-Bastea, Beyond Intimacy
Radical Proximity and Justice in Three Mexican Poets
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Alessia Cassani

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Dahlia Abraham-Klein, The Stateless Central Asian Merchant
The Life of Haim Aghajan Abraham, Based on his Journal (1897-1986)
Great Neck, NY: Shamashi Press, 2025
Reviewed by Drora Arussy

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Film Review

My Ioannina Odyssey
Directed by Gary Glassman
Reviewed by Annette B. Fromm

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