Introductory Readings in Sephardic History
For historical sources in print or handwriting, see the post "Sephardic History: Archives and Collections".
Ladino Dictionaries
Varol, Marie-Christine (2008): Manual of Judeo-Spanish. Language and culture. Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture, 16. Bethesda, Md: University Press of Maryland.
Nehama, Joseph (1977): Dictionnaire du judéo-espagnol. Ed. by Jesús Cantera Ortiz de Urbina. Madrid: Consejo Sup. de Invest. Cientificas. https://archive.org/details/dictionnaire-du-judeo-espagnol-pdfdrive-1
Ramos, Ferran Marı́n (2018): Gramática básica de Djudeo-espanyol. 2nd ed. MS Publishers.
Recuero, Pascual Pascual (2009): Diccionario básico ladino-español. Biblioteca Nueva sefarad v.3. Barcelona: Ameller Ediciones.
Kohen, Elli (2000): Ladino-English, English-Ladino. Concise encyclopedic dictionary (Judeo-Spanish). Ed. by Dahlia Kohen-Gordon. New York, NY: Hippocrene Books.
Ladino (Sociolinguistic Studies)
Mensching, Guido and Frank Savelsberg (2023): Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110302271
August-Zare ̨bska, Agnieszka (2020): “The Language of Sephardic Jews: History and Main Characteristics”. In: The Balkan Jews and the minority issue in South-Eastern Europe. Ed. by Jolanta Sujecka. Colloquia Balkanica volume 7. Bellerive-sur-Allier: Edition La Rama.
August-Zare ̨bska, Agnieszka and Natalia Paprocka (2025): “Translator’s and Publisher’s Voices in the Contemporary Translations into Judeo-Spanish”. In: Sefarad 85.1, p. 1213. https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.025.1213
Lehmann, Matthias B. (2005): Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Yebra López, Carlos (2024): Ladino on the Internet. Sepharad 4. London; New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003473664
Sephardic Studies
Şaul, Mahir and José Ignacio Hualde, eds. (2017): Sepharad as imagined community. Language, history and religion from the early modern period to the 21st century. Studies in Judaism vol. 8. New York: Peter Lang.
Wacks, David A. (2015): Double diaspora in Sephardic literature. Jewish cultural production before and after 1492. Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Escudero, Mónica Manrique (2020): The Project of Return to Sepharad in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Justin Peterson. The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People Ser. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.
Ginio, Alisa Meyuh.as, ed. (2015): Between Sepharad and Jerusalem. History, identity and memory of the Sephardim. The Iberian religious world Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill.
Bodian, Miriam (2007): Dying in the law of Moses. Crypto-Jewish martyrdom in the Iberian world. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Schreiber, Markus (2017): “Conversos y librepensamiento. A la búsqueda de algunas huellas (ss. XVI y XVII)”. In: Sefarad 77.2, pp. 375–403. https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.017.013
Shoah
Kerem, Yitzchak (2020): “Tangential Representation of the Sephardim and Mizrahim in the Holocaust: multi-cultural diversity lost under Ashkenazi hegemony”. In: Etnografia 8.2. https://doi.org/10.31250/2618-8600-2020-2(8)-66-79
Lévy, Isaac Jack, ed. (2000): And the world stood silent. Sephardic poetry of the Holocaust. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.
Lévy, Isaac Jack (2020): The Sephardim in the Holocaust. A Forgotten People. Ed. by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt. Jews and Judaism: History and Culture Ser. Naperville: University of Alabama Press.
Ha-Elyôn, Moše (2000): En los kampos de la muerte. Ed. by Avner Perez. El trezoro de la poezia i del teatro djudeo-espanyol. Maale Adumim: Inst. Maale Adumim.
Fiction
Molina, Antonio Muñoz (2009): Sefarad. Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral.
Aguinis, Marcos (1992): La gesta del marrano. Barcelona: Planeta.
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