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Sephardic Jewry

Essay

The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

Ruth Behar
June 13, 2022
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Chil­dren’s
José and the Pirate Cap­tain Toledano
Arnon Z. Shorr
Joshua M. Edelglass
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Non­fic­tion
Sephar­di Voic­es: The Untold Expul­sion of Jews from Arab Lands
Hen­ry Green
Richard Sturs­berg
Essay

Sephar­di Voices

Richard Sturs­berg
March 20, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
Once We Were Slaves: The Extra­or­di­nary Jour­ney of a Mul­ti-Racial Jew­ish Family
Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
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Non­fic­tion
Sephar­di: Cook­ing the His­to­ry. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Dias­po­ra, from the 13th Cen­tu­ry to Today
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
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Fic­tion
Hanukkah in Lit­tle Havana
Julie Anna Blank
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Non­fic­tion
Womb Of Dia­monds: A True Adven­ture From Child Bride Of Syr­ia To Celebri­ty Busi­ness­woman Of Japan
Ezra Choueke
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Fic­tion
The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives: A Novel
Tim Dar­cy Ellis
Essay

Excerpt — Sephar­di: Cook­ing the History

Hélène Jawhara Piñer
June 28, 2021
Essay

My Hand on His Shoul­der: A Descen­dant of Cryp­to-Jews Inserts Her­self into the His­tor­i­cal Record

Kath­leen Alcalá
June 21, 2021
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Fic­tion
The Poet­ry of Secrets
Cam­bria Gordon
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Non­fic­tion
A Banker’s Jour­ney: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Glob­al Finan­cial Empire
Daniel Gross
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Fic­tion
Home in a Hun­dred Places
Sarah Dayan Mueller
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Non­fic­tion
Fam­i­ly Papers: A Sephardic Jour­ney Through the Twen­ti­eth Century
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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Non­fic­tion
Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
Devi Mays
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