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    Cover of The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
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    The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
    Lucette Lagna­do
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    An Arro­gant Revolution

    Lucette Lagna­do​’s most recent book, The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brook­lyn, is now avail­able. Lucette won the 2008 Sami…
    Lucette Lagna­do
    September 21, 2011
    Essay

    Mourn­ing My Arab Spring

    Lucette Lagna­do​’s most recent book, The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brook­lyn, is now avail­able. Lucette won the 2008 Sami Rohr…
    Lucette Lagna­do
    September 19, 2011
    Cover of Sacred Treasure - The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic
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    Sacred Trea­sure — The Cairo Genizah: The Amaz­ing Dis­cov­er­ies of For­got­ten Jew­ish His­to­ry in an Egypt­ian Syn­a­gogue Attic
    Rabbi Mark Glickman
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    Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
    Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: The Arro­gant Years

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterAs promised, a book to look for­ward to this sum­mer: 2008 Sami Rohr Prize Win­ner Lucette Lagnado’s The Arro­gant Years: One Girl’s Search…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    April 29, 2011
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    Your 2011 Read­ing List

    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    December 9, 2008
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    Move Over Europe

    Over the past sev­er­al years, the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has received an influx of titles con­cern­ing the plight of Jews out­side the bound­aries of Europe. No longer are our…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    November 21, 2008
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