Publications

Books

The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew (Hebrew, Magnus 2020).

The Book offers a new genealogical reading of visions and representations of al-Andalus/Sepharad in modern Jewish discourse through an in-depth analysis of the work of the Sephardi intellectual network at the turn of the twentieth century in Palestine/Land of Israel, a defining period in modern Jewish history. The book traces their movement between Al-Andalus and Palestine, between the Far East and the Middle East, between Berlin, Madrid, and Jerusalem. It maps the disputes and contested images that shaped the “Sephardiness” as an enterprise of literature and translation; as an intersection of imperial networks of trade in cotton, silk, and opium; and as the exchange of manuscripts and arrays of knowledge.

Highlighted Articles

• “When does a native become a settler? (With apologies to Zreik and Mamdani)” with Hagar Kotef

• “The Return of an Andalusi Moment: Sephardi Alternatives to the Monolingual Imagination, Pre- and Post-Partitioned Palestine” (chapter in Al-Andalus in Motion)

• “Natives Locals: A History of Mizrahim as Indigenous” (2025, Black Brick – Mizrahim and Mizrahiness Writing a New Israeli Reality)

• “Trapped in the Middle: Tracing the Invention of Mizrahi Jews as Mediators” (2024, Jewish Quarterly Review)

For a complete list of Professor Evri’s works, see here