Jewish communities in North Africa & the Arab world: new web resource

'Diarna' is Judeo-Arabic for 'our homes' and this new web project gathers multimedia resources such as videos, digital images and oral histories of the Jewish communities of the Arab world, from North Africa to Iran.

Archive material is drawn in part from the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Beit Hatfusot (Museum of the Jewish People)

Click on the link below :

Diarna : mapping Mizrahi heritage

Jewish communities in West Africa: book review

Forgotten diaspora: Jewish communities in West Africa and the making of the Atlantic World, by Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta

This book is currently on order for SOAS Library. Its focus is on two communities of Sephardic Jews who settled in Portudal and Joal in Senegambia in the early 17th century

Read a review by Dr. Tobias Green (Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham) from the H-Luso-Africa pages of the Humanities and Social Sciences Net online

Prophets of the past: book review

Michael Brenner's "Prophets of the past: interpreters of Jewish history" (published in translation by Princeton University Press in 2010) is reviewed on Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online by Professor Moshe Rosman of the Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University.

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. His book looks at Jewish historiography from the 18th century to the present

Find the book in SOAS Library at QO909 / 743994

The Jews of Central Asia: history and cuisine

Online article from the Jerusalem Post in which chef Dennis Wasko explores the history of the Bukharian Jews of today's Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, including their cuisine.
A recipe for Bukharian Plov (a chicken and rice dish) is included!