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Sephardic Jewry

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Non­fic­tion
Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
Elio Zarmati
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Non­fic­tion
The Busi­ness of Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish and Greek Mer­chants of Saloni­ca from Ottoman to Greek Rule
Paris Papami­chos Chronakis
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The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
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Excerpt — Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the His­to­ry of the Sephardic Jews

Hélène Jawhara Piñer
September 16, 2024
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Chil­dren’s
A Turk­ish Rosh Hashanah
Etan Basseri; Zeynep Özatalay, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
An Etrog from Across the Sea
Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
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Fic­tion
Mazal­tob
Blanche Bendahan; Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, trans. 
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Fic­tion
The Famil­iar
Leigh Bar­dugo
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Chil­dren’s
Across So Many Seas
Ruth Behar
Essay

Four Sephardic Jew­ish Girls Caught in the Web of History

Ruth Behar
February 5, 2024
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Fic­tion
The Pome­gran­ate Gate
Ariel Kaplan
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Chil­dren’s
The Inside Name
Randi Sonenshine; Gina Capaldi, illus.
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Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
Avi­ad Moreno
Cover of Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews
Cook­book
Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the His­to­ry of the Sephardic Jews
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
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Chil­dren’s
Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
Bon­ni Goldberg
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Fic­tion
South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jew­ish Expul­sion from Spain
Eric Z. Weintraub
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