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Ten Jewish Writers Share Their Passover Reading Recommendations

JBC Staff

March 27, 2023

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Stories for the Sake of Argument

Abi Dauber Sterne; Robbie Gringras

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Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

Michael W. Twitty

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All the Shining People

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Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands

Richard Stursberg

Essay

Sephardi Voices

Richard Stursberg

March 20, 2022

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Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews

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Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France

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Cover Me With My Izar

Nora Houri-Haim

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Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

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A Boy Is Not a Ghost

Essay

My Family’s Grinding Stone: Jewish Cooking in Ahmedabad

Esther David

November 22, 2021

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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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Awakenings: American Jewish Transformations

Benjamin Spratt

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Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder

Cover of Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989

Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945 – 1989