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Books and Works by Shelomo Alfassá
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 Fall 2011 |
'THE BIOGRAPHICAL PIRKE AVOT' Pirke Avot is one of the best-known historic Jewish texts and possibly its most widespread studied. The ethical teachings found in Pirke Avot have come together to form an essential collection of traditional adages and maxims of the sages. Avot contains sayings attributed to sages from Shimeon the Righteous (200 BCE) to shortly after Yehudah HaNasi (200 CE). Pirke Avot contains precepts and regulations that are to govern the lives and actions of the individual and the community. COMING FALL 2011 |
 2011 |
'SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR: BULGARIA AND THE HOLOCAUST' Bulgaria was complicit in the dispossession, torture and murder of thousands of Jews-yet, the Bulgarian government continues to whitewash this fact. While it's known that the Bulgarian government elected not to deport some 50,000 Jews from 'Old' Bulgaria to German death camps in Poland-what is not known is that Bulgaria was directly complicit in the murder of some 13,000 Jews from 'New' Bulgaria (Thrace and Macedonia). (Hardcover 108 pages ISBN 978-1-257-95257-1) Available September 1, 2011 |
 2011 |
'ECLECTIC MISCELLANY: SELECT ESSAYS ON THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE', is a volume of collected essays from the 18th and 19th century, on topics related to the wide scope of the Jewish experience from Spain to India, from Ottoman Turkey to the American Jews and from the Jews of Eastern Europe to the Holy Land and out to Ethiopia. (Hardcover, 254 pages, ISBN: 978-1-257-82667-4) |
 2010 |
'THE SEPHARDIC ANOUSIM' As Jews, we are obligated to help our fellow. Why would this not would include the descendants of Jews that converted to other religions? Today, the ancestors of these Jews are coming out in high numbers searching for truth. As more and more people come forward, the anousim situation is one that world Jewry must address and develop solutions for. |
 2009 |
'THE PALM TREE OF DEBORAH' (Tomer Deborah) is an ethical discourse devoted to the doctrine of the imitation of the Almighty. In his book, Kordovero proceeds systematically through the various known attributes of God and explains how we as humans can work on improving ourselves by imitating those attributes to the best of our ability. |
 2008 |
'HISTORY, POLITICS & LOSS: SELECTED WRITINGS OF SHELOMO ALFASSÁ' is a collection of 62 papers, both published and unpublished, written between 1995-2008, on various topics related to history, the political world and the loss of great Jewish personalities. |
 2007 |
'A WINDOW INTO OLD JERUSALEM' Observations about Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1820-1920. First hand accounts and observations made about the Jews of Ottoman Jerusalem and the Holy Land. A Window Into Old Jerusalem, a unique collection of short tales and first hand observations about Jewish life in Ottoman Jerusalem and the Holy Land, by travelers that visited during a critical period of transition. |
 2006 |
'REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE NAZIS AND ARABS DURING THE HOLOCAUST' - A concise guide to the relationship and conspiracy of the Nazis and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in North Africa and the Middle East during the era of the Holocaust. |
 2006 |
'ETHNIC SEPHARDIC JEWS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE' Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews were geographically and religiously separate populations. Because of this separation, these two populations often display significant differences in the incidence of genetic diseases and medical conditions. This reference book is a comprehensive collection of bibliographic citations complete with associated abstracts from the period 1957-2005. |
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'INTERNATIONAL SEPHARDIC JOURNAL (ISJ)' Shelomo Alfassá is the editor-in-chief and founder of the ISJ, a multi-disciplinary Jewish publication featuring scholarly works related to Sephardim. The winner of the 2004-2005 Fromer Award for "potential significant impact on the Jewish community", ISJ is the only primarily English language refereed Jewish publication focusing on Sephardic Jewry. Subscribers include: Cornell, Bar Ilan, Harvard, Stanford and many other universities and individuals. ISSN: 1547-5808 |
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