La Istorya Cudia para Los Eskolaryos (Jewish History for Scholars), by聽Nisim聽Behar (Istanbul: G眉ler Basimevi, 1957)
The Mazal collection includes hundreds of volumes on Jewish history covering an聽incredible range of topics. Of particular interest are the many publications produced聽by or about Jewish communities in the eastern Mediterranean, especially Turkey聽and Greece, where Harry Mazal鈥檚 own family originated. In this rare book written in聽Turkic Romanized Ladino, Nisim Behar, a prolific author, an expert on Jewish law聽and history, and one of the foremost educators of Turkish Jewry, presents Jewish聽history for schoolchildren "from the creation of the world to the death of Moses the聽Legislator,"聽as the subtitle reads. Appearing in 1957 in Istanbul, a center of Ladino聽publishing, Behar spent the second half of his life in Israel where he passed away in聽1990 at age 77. The Mazal collection includes dozens of books in Turkic Romanized聽Ladino and many others on the history of the Jews of Turkey produced in Turkish.