Books in the Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies series

This annotated collection of simple yet witty Jewish Moroccan folk tales presents the popular fictional hero Seha as both sage and clown, conveying deeply engrained Jewish values. The authors also provide socio-historical information that contextualizes the tales in the process of social change and modernization in Morocco.

This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.

Jews and Muslims of Morocco collects accounts of the intersecting worlds and emergent shared customs and culture, suggesting that the unique atmosphere in Morocco allowed for Rabbinic empowerment and a more practical approach to halakhah.