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Sephardic Jewry

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Chil­dren’s
Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
Bon­ni Goldberg
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Chil­dren’s
Luis de Tor­res Sails to Freedom
Tami Lehman-Wilzig; Oliver Averill, illus.
Essay

Jews of the Span­ish Home­land: Find­ing My Sephardic Fam­i­ly in a 1929 Film

Eliz­a­beth Graver
April 10, 2023
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Fic­tion
Kan­ti­ka
Eliz­a­beth Graver
Cover of A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire
Non­fic­tion
A Banker’s Jour­ney: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Glob­al Finan­cial Empire
Daniel Gross
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Non­fic­tion
A Jew­ish Child­hood in the Mus­lim Mediterranean
Leïla Sebbar, cur.; Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds.; Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
The Boston Choco­late Party
Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Deb­o­rah R. Prinz
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Chil­dren’s
Hanukkah in Lit­tle Havana
Julie Anna Blank; Carlos Vélez Aguilera, illus.
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Fic­tion
The Incan­des­cent Threads
Richard Zim­ler
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
Jew­ish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History
Jonathan Ray
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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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Jews, Food, and Spain: The Old­est Medieval Span­ish Cook­book and the Sephardic Culi­nary Heritage
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
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