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Sephardic Jewry

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From the Shahs to Los Ange­les: Three Gen­er­a­tions of Iran­ian Jew­ish Women between Reli­gion and Culture
Saba Soomekh
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Chil­dren’s
The Last Song
Eva Wiseman
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Poet­ry
An Ode to Saloni­ka: The Ladi­no Vers­es of Boue­na Sarfatty
Renee Levine Melammed
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Cook­book
Grand­ma Elmale­h’s Moroc­can Cookbook
Lisa Elmaleh Craig
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Non­fic­tion
Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Cover of Stella's Sephardic Table: Jewish Family Recipes From the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes
Cook­book
Stel­la’s Sephardic Table: Jew­ish Fam­i­ly Recipes From the Mediter­ranean Island of Rhodes
Stella Cohen; Marc Hoberman, photographer
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Nomadic Soul: My jour­ney from the Libyan Sahara to a Jew­ish Life in Los Angeles
Ed Elhaderi
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Dis­si­dent Rab­bi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
Yaacob Dweck
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Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
Bracha Yaniv
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The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Tal­mu­dic Corpus
Marjorie Lehman
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Chil­dren’s
Jean Laf­fite: The Pirate Who Saved America
Susan Goldman Rubin; Jeff Himmelman, illus.
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Fic­tion
El Ilu­mi­na­do: A Graph­ic Novel
Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin
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Between Chris­t­ian and Jew: Con­ver­sion and Inqui­si­tion in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391
Paola Tartakoff
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A Jew­ish Renais­sance in Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Spain
Mark D. Meyerson
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Mod­ern Ladi­no Cul­ture: Press, Belles Let­tres, and The­ater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Olga Borovaya
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Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
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