Sefunot (Hebrew: ספונות) was a Hebrew-language academic journal, published annually, dealing with the study of Jewish communities in the East, from the end of the Middle Ages unto the present time.

[1] It was initiated by Meir Benayahu, and jointly published by the Ben Zvi Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The appellative Sefunot was chosen for the Annual, as it has the distinct meaning of "those things concealed," an allusion to the obscure nature of these Jewish communities.

[2] A number of important articles published in this volume include 1) the history of Cordovian and Lurianic Kabbalah, 2) the history of early Zionist activities in Egypt at the turn of the 20th-century, 3) Turkish documents on the rebuilding of Tiberias in the sixteenth century,[3] 4) studies on the Mountain Jews of the Northern Caucasus, 5) studies on the Jews of Yemen, with important liturgical, literary, and linguistic contributions related to this community.

Some of the books in the series were dedicated to a specific theme (Sabbatai Zevi movement, Safed, and Greek Jewry), in honour of a person (Shneur Zalman Shazar, Gershom Scholem) or in eulogy of the deceased (Isaiah Sonne and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi).