Communal pride and feminine virtue: suspecting "sivlonot" in the Jewish communities of the Ottoman empire in the early sixteenth century / Hannah Davidson -- Mothers and children as seen by sixteenth-century rabbis in the Ottoman empire / Ruth Lamdan -- Religious space, gender, and power in the Sephardi diaspora: the return to Judaism of new Christian men and women in Livorno and Pisa / Cristina Galasso -- Childhood and family among the western Sephardim in the seventeenth century / Julia R. Lieberman -- Sephardi women in Holland's golden age / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld -- Researching the childhood of new Jews of the Western Sephardi diaspora in light of recent historiography / David Graizbord.