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Items with the tag:

egypt

Cover of Home in a Hundred Places
Fic­tion
Home in a Hun­dred Places
Sarah Dayan Mueller
Poetry

Esther’s Angels

Wendy Dick­stein
August 24, 2020
Cover of The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Non­fic­tion
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Mari­na Rustow
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Fic­tion
Foot­prints on the Heart
Jean Nag­gar
From the Journal

The World of Egypt­ian Jew­ish Literature

Jean Nag­gar
April 4, 2020
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Jew­ish Text
The Essen­tial Seder: A Con­tem­po­rary Haggadah
Deb­o­rah Gross-Zuchman
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Jew­ish Text
The Promise of the Land: A Passover Haggadah
Ellen Bernstein, Galia Goodman (Illust.)
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Jew­ish Text
The Koren Youth Haggadah
Developed by Dr. Daniel Rose; illustrations by Rinat Giboa
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Jew­ish Text
The Passover Hag­gadah: An Ancient Sto­ry for Mod­ern Times
Tablet Magazine, Shai Azoulay (illus.)
Essay

Passover 5780/2020 Hag­gadah Roundup

Maron L. Waxman
March 30, 2020
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The Passover Hag­gadah: A Biography
Vanes­sa L. Ochs
Interview

Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Michael David Lukas

JBC Staff
February 27, 2019
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Excerpt: The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo

Michael David Lukas
March 1, 2018
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The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo
Michael David Lukas
Cover of Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
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Com­ing of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Ado­les­cence, Jew­ish Law, and Ordi­nary Culture
Eve Krakowski
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The Sovi­et-Israeli War, 1967 – 1973: The USSR’s Mil­i­tary Inter­ven­tion in the Egypt­ian-Israeli Conflict
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
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