The Struggle for Sephardic-Mizrahi Autonomy chronicles the creation of a Sephardic-Mizrahi identity-literally, "Oriental" Jews-uncovering the ways that political and racial factors contributed to the emergence of this identity. My inquiry draws from an extensive body of archives…
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The thesis is the record of the first systematic attempt to collect ballads in the British Sephardic communities (in London and Manchester). Sixty-one ballad texts and fragments were collected between 1981 and 1988. The majority were collected (with their tunes) directly from in…
In the aftermath of the expulsion in 1492, the Sephardic expellees in the Ottoman Empire developed a unique interpretation of levirate marriage (yibbum), a commandment obligating the brother of a man who has died without an heir to marry the deceased's widow. Heavily influenced …
The dissertation examines the history of the Jewish community of Tangier, Morocco, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It portrays the growth of the community from a small settlement through its independence in 1798 from the rabbinical authority o…