Among the specialized catalogs, the following are worthy of mention:
Periodicals
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| Attal, Robert, ha-'Itonut ha-Yehudit bi-Tsefon
Afrikah, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1980 |
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Listing 145 periodicals alphabetically by country, providing details on collation and holdings
in Jerusalem (including data on microforms)
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| Gaon, Moshe David, 'arakh ve-hitkin Mosheh Katan,
ha-'Itonut be-Ladino: Bibliyografyah. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1965 |
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Entries are cited by Hebrew alphabetical order and include title and subtitle and periodicals in Roman script include the name in Hebrew transliteration in brackets followed by the name in Roman script. Also included are place of publication, name of the publisher (person or institution), date of the first issue, size, type of characters (Rashi, square, and Roman), a Hebrew translation of the title and subtitle, frequency, editors, number and date of the oldest issue seen by the editor, holdings (at the National and University Library in Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, and the private collections of Yitshak De Buton and Binyamin Arditi), and some notes. Indexes are for dates, places, people (editors, publishers, printers), names of places and people in Roman script. Most of the periodicals are from Saloniki, Istanbul, Sophia, Izmir, Vienna, and Jerusalem.
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Marriage contracts
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| Attal, Robert, Ketubot mi-Tsefon-Afrikah
bi-Yerushalayim, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1984 |
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It lists marriage contracts in the Ben-Zvi Institute (113), the National and University Library (141) and Israel Museum (54). All are arranged by country: Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Gibraltar (except for the museum, which does not have ketubot from Libya). The list from the Ben Zvi Institute appears in Hebrew and French. Some facimilas are included as well as an index of names of the couples and witnesses.
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Authors
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| Agustín Ladrón de Guevara, José María de &
María Luisa Salvador Barahona, Ensayo de un catálogo bio-bibliográfico
de escritores judeo-españoles-portugueses del siglo X al XIX. Madrid :
Ediciones José Porrua Turanzas, 1983. |
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This bibliography lists 2543 works arranged alphabetically by author. It has an author index divided by century, profession (e.g. cabalist, astronomer, philosopher). It has a list of publishers/printers (without reference number); index of MS and by place of publication (with reference number). Some entries have a short annotation regarding holding information, bibliographic data, etc.
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| Bezalel, Itzhak, Kitve Sofrim
Yehudim Sefaradiyim u-Mizrahiyim bi-Leshonot Yehudiyot ve-Zarot,
Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, 1982- |
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The first volume contains a bibliographic survey of fiction in the 20th century. Following an introduction on the subject, the survey includes sections for the following languages (based on their order of the Hebrew alphabet): Italian, English, Bulgarian, Georgian, Macedonian, Judeo-Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Arabic, French, and Russian (mainly by Georgian Jews). It cites mainly monographs, and only few citations from periodical literature. Authors are arranged by alphabetical order of their names according to the Hebrew. Each author has a short biographical note, followed by works based on date of publication. Names of books are provided also in Hebrew translation. There is information on some of the books. There is no index, and names of authors are not repeated at the head of the page.
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| Dugas, Guy, Bibliographie
critique de la littérature judeo-maghrebine d'expression française,
1896-1990, Paris: Université Paris-Nord, 1992 |
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This work is similar in purpose to the former bibliography, but on a much more limited scope. It includes lists by authors' names followed by their works; by date of publication–the earliest is from 1880. This is followed by bibliographies on North African Jews; on Jewish literature in general; on Jewish Maghrebi literature; and works on the authors.
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Biography
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| Levy, Joseph J. and Josué Elkouby, Marc Éliany,.
Dictionnaire biographique du monde juif sépharade et méditérranéen.
Côte-St-Luc, Québec : Éditions Élysée, 2001. |
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This biographical dictionary on Sephardi and Mediterranean Jews is divided into four sections: rabbis, scholars, artists and scribes, and dignitaries covering some ten centuries to the end of the 20th century. The entries are short and some include portraits.
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| Studemund-Halevy, Michael, Biographisches Lexikon der
Hamburger Sefarden: die Grabinschriften des Portugiesenfriedhofs an der Königstrasse in
Hamburg-Altona. Hamburg: Christians, 2000 |
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This biographical lexicon of the Sephardi Jews of Hamburg and Altona is based primarily on data from the tombstones of the Portuguese cemetery in town. Following an examination of the Jews of Hamburg and Altona in the 17th-20th centuries and the various sources on them, the lexicon provides extensive data from the tombstones (in Hebrew with German translation) and other sources on the named individuals. Extensive bibliography is included.
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Music
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| Seroussi, Edwin, "Sephardic Music : A Bibliographical
Guide with a Checklist of Notated Sources" Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
Review 15/2 (1993): 56-61 |
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Sephardic Electronic Newsletter
Sefarad is an electronic monthly newsletter which appears regularly since 1991, edited by Yitzchak Kerem. It includes a lot of current information on events related to Sephardic studies–from scholarly publications and data on conferences to musical performances and exhibitions. It usually has the following sections: future Sephardic events, Sefardic events of the current month, past events, publications, music, films, call for papers, announcements, news, and eulogies. The information is somewhat repetetive between the various issues, and numerous entries appear more than once (as future, current, and past events, etc.). The reader has to scan through a lot of data, some of which are only tangentially related to Sephardic studies. Readers are asked to send information on their activities or those known to them in their communities, institutions, etc. Sefarad has started to publish book reviews, and intends to publish papers.
To subscribe, send an e-mail message to: listserv@israel.nysernet.org then type in the message area: subscribe FirstName LastName sefarad
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