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Essay Unlocking Memories Earlier this week, Doreen Carvajal wrote about trying to recover her family’s secret identity. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Doreen Carvajal August 15, 2012
Essay Hunting Family Ghosts Doreen Carvajal’s first book, The Forgetting River, is about her search to recover her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a mystical white… Doreen Carvajal August 13, 2012
Nonfiction Fire and Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition Anna Lanyon
Nonfiction A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a‑Levi Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.; Isaac Jerusalmi, trans.
Nonfiction The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity Yehouda Shenhav
Nonfiction My Mother’s Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi Elana Benjamin
Nonfiction The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition Doreen Carvajal
Visual Arts New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory Cary Herz, photographs; Ori Z. Soltes and Mona Hernandes, essays
Nonfiction The Other Within: the Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity Yirmayahu Yovel
