Medieval Sephardic History - Suggested Readings
The texts listed in green are books that I have in my personal collection.
General Histories
- Cutler, A.H. and Cutler, H.E., The Jew as Ally of the Muslim, (Notre Dame, 1986).
- Gerber, Jane S., The Jews of Spain - A History of the Sephardic Experience,
(New York, 1992).
- Mann, Vivian B., Glick, Thomas F. and Dodds, Jerrilynn D. (eds.), Convivienca - Jews, Muslims, and Christians
in Medieval Spain, (NewYork, 1992).
- Metzger, T. and Metzger, M., Jewish Life in the Middle Ages - Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth
to the Sixteenth Centuries, (Fribourg, 1982).
- Raphael, Chaim, The Sephardi Story - A Celebration of Jewish History, (London, 1991).
- Sachar, Howard M., Farewell Espana - The World of the Sephardim Remembered,
(New York, 1994).
The Jews of Spain prior to the Muslim Invasions
- Katz, Solomon, The Jews in the Visigothic and Frankish Kingdoms of Spain and Gaul, (Cambridge, Mass., 1937).
The Jews of Muslim Spain
- Ashtor, Eliyahu, The Jews of Moslem Spain, (Philadelphia, 1973), 2 vols.
The Jews of Christian Spain
- Baer, Yitchak, The Jews of Christain Spain, (Philadelphia, 1961), 2 vols.
- Burns, Robert I., Muslims Christians and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia,
(Cambridge, 1984).
- Neuman, Abraham A., The Jews in Spain - Their Social, Political and Cultural Life During the
Middle Ages, (New York, 1969), 2 vols.
Moses Maimonides
- Heschel, Abraham J., Maimonides, (New York, 1982).
- Maimonides, Moses, The Commandments (Sefer ha-Mitzvoth),
(Translated by Charles B. Chavel), (London, 1967), 2vols.
- Maimonides, Moses, The Guide of the Perplexed (Moreh Nevukhim), (Translated by Shlomo Pines), (Chicago, 1963).
- Ormsby, Eric L. (ed.), Moses Maimonides and His Time, (Washington D.C., 1989).
- Twersky, Isadore, A Maimonides Reader, (New York, 1972).
- Zeitlin, Solomon, Maimonides, a Biography, (New York, 1955).
Samuel ibn Nagrela
- Weinberger, Leon, Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel ibn Nagrela, (University, Ala., 1973).
Miscellaneous
- Carmi, T. (ed.), Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, (New York, 1981).
- Goitein, S.D., Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, (Princeton, 1973).
- Goldstein, David, The Jewish Poets of Spain, 900-1250, (London, 1965).
- Patai, Raphael, The Jewish Alchemists, (Princeton, 1994).
- Scheindlin, Raymond P., The Gazelle : Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, and the Soul, (Philadelphia, 1999).
- Scheindlin, Raymond P., Wine, Women and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life, (Philadelphia, 1999).
- Scholem, Gershom, Kabbalah, (New York, 1954).
- Scholem, Gershom, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, (New York, 1954).
- Sirat, Colette, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages, (Cambridge, 1985).
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