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Haim Nahum

A Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Politics, 1892-1923

Edited by Esther Benbassa; Translated by Miriam Kochan
University of Alabama Press

First published in French by the Presses du Centre National de la Recherche ScientiÞque in 1990, this book relates the history of Turkish Jewry during the last decades of the Ottoman empire, as told through the life and work of Haim Nahum, the Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman empire from 1909 to 1920.

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The Jews in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century

Under the Patronage of the Istanbul committee of Officials for Palestine

By Jacob Barnai; Translated by Naomi Goldblum
University of Alabama Press
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The Land Was Theirs

Jewish Farmers in the Garden State

University of Alabama Press

Provides a perspective on the pressures, problems, and satisfactions of rural Jewish life as experienced in one community

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Early Synagogue Poets in the Balkans

University of Alabama Press

A critical edition of compositions of three early Jewish poets from the Balkans

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Jewish Poets in Crete

University of Alabama Press
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Bulgaria's Synagogue Poets

The Kastoreans

Edited by Leon J. Weinberger; Introduction by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press

Critical Edition with introduction and commentary by Leon J. Weinberger

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Romaniote Penitential Poetry

University of Alabama Press

A collection of Penitential poems for the Days of Awe that bears eloquent witness to a once-flourishing Romaniote presence in the Balkan states during early Byzantine times

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