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An Italian rabbi, kabbalist, publisher and thinker of Moroccan descent who lived in the Tuscan port city of Livorno and championed the Risorgimento, Elia Benamozegh's abundant writings encompass exegesis, historical studies and various newspaper contributions, in Hebrew, Italian…

In 1906, Ralph Nace Cohen left the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean for the United States. After sailing across the Atlantic, Cohen made his way to Montgomery, Alabama. Cohen was the first of hundreds of Ottoman Sephardi Jews to immigrate to the southern United Stat…

This dissertation investigates the cultural construction of a modern global diaspora by foregrounding the historical, linguistic and nationalist contexts embedded in literary works produced over the last two centuries, written by a diverse collection of writers who imagine a pre…