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Ran­dall C. Belinfante

Ran­dall Belin­fante has served as the Librar­i­an of the Amer­i­can Sephar­di Fed­er­a­tion for more than 13 years. He has tak­en a tiny col­lec­tion of 200 books and built an assem­blage of over 10,000 items. Mr. Belin­fante holds degrees in var­i­ous aspects of Jew­ish stud­ies, and dur­ing his tenure at ASF, he has inves­ti­gat­ed a vari­ety of top­ics, pre­sent­ing papers on such diverse top­ics as the Mizrahi Jews dri­ven from their homes in Islam­ic coun­tries and the cryp­to-Jew­ish Mash­hadis of Iran. He has also writ­ten many book reviews on books of Sephar­di / Mizrahi interest.
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A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Cat­alo­nia: The Life and Death of Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties in Medieval Catalonia
Sílvia Planas and Manuel Forcano
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Mem­o­ries of Eden: A Jour­ney Through Jew­ish Baghdad
Violette Shamash; Mira and Tony Roca, eds.
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The Sephardic Lega­cy: Unique Fea­tures and Achievements
Haim Henry Toledano
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Jug­gling Iden­ti­ties: Iden­ti­ty and Authen­tic­i­ty Among the Crypto-Jews
Seth D. Kunin
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Arabs of the Jew­ish Faith: The Civ­i­liz­ing Mis­sion in Colo­nial Algeria
Joshua Schreiers
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The Jews of North Africa: From Dido to De Gaulle
Sarah Taieb-Carlen; Amos Carlen, trans.
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Once Jews: Sto­ries of Caribbean Sephardim
Josette Capriles Goldish

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