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The Sephardim in the Holocaust: A Forgotten People by Isaac Jack Levy in collaboration with Rosemary Levy Zumwalt is the work of a scholar who has been at the forefront of his field for the past four decades, all the while making outstanding contributions to the study of Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust. This book is a lifetime of effort. Levy was born on the island of Rhodes, at a time when it was home to an exceptional Sephardi community. He personally experienced the flourishing of this community, and its decline. This book is the fruit of the extensive study of research materials, alongside field work and interviews between Levy and a great many Sephardim who were personally touched by Holocaust. Levy was among the first to interview Holocaust survivors. Accompanied by his wife Rosemary, he traveled to many communities to interview Holocaust survivors who were born in Sephardi communities. Levy's decision to interweave his research findings with descriptions of his field work and excerpts from interviews was a wise one. He uses testimonies as first-hand sources to back up and reinforce the historical material. This book closes a fascinating personal circle for the researcher, who died in, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA, but who constantly longed for the island of his birth. He labored tirelessly on the manuscript until his final days, polishing it as a testament to future generations; as a magnificent verbal memorial by a researcher and his wife, who felt a tremendous obligation to interview every last person and help save their voices from the threatening oblivion of history; as a memorial to this couple who dedicated all their energies to writing the pages of history that would perpetuate an unknown and untold chapter - the story of the Sephardim in the Holocaust. --Professor Shmuel Refael, director of the Salti Institute for Ladino Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel

An important contribution to the study of the Holocaust in the Sephardic context. This is a momentous monograph that encompasses 40 years of research by an eminent and trailblazing researcher. -Shmuel Refael, author of Conceptualizing the Unconceptualized: La Vida de Adolf Hitler, El Haman Moderno (The Life of Adolf Hitler, The Modern Haman)

An important contribution to the study of the Holocaust in the Sephardic context. This is a momentous monograph that encompasses 40 years of research by an eminent and trailblazing researcher. --Shmuel Refael, author of Conceptualizing the Unconceptualized: La Vida de Adolf Hitler, El Haman Moderno (The Life of Adolf Hitler, The Modern Haman)

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Isaac Jack LÉvy (1928–2020) was distinguished professor emeritus of Spanish language and literature at University of South Carolina. He is author of And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust and coauthor, with Rosemary LÉvy Zumwalt, of Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits,Healing the Sick. Rosemary LÉvy Zumwalt is retired from Agnes Scott College where she was dean of the college and professor of anthropology. She is author of Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist.

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