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Cover of The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi

The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi

Essay

Not So(w) Kosher? Nine Jewish Facts About the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum

October 7, 2024

Cover of Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum

Cover of Everybody's Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah

Everybody’s Book: The Story of the Sarajevo Haggadah

Linda Leopold Strauss; Tim Smart, illus.

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Jewish Historical Fiction: Triumph and Tragedy

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Cover of The Inside Name

The Inside Name

Randi Sonenshine; Gina Capaldi, illus.

Cover of Doña Gracia Saved Worlds

Doña Gracia Saved Worlds

Cover of South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jewish Expulsion from Spain

South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jewish Expulsion from Spain

Eric Z. Weintraub

Cover of Returning from Silence: Jenny’s Story

Returning from Silence: Jenny’s Story

Michèle Sarde, Ruper Swyer, trans; 

Cover of The Poetry of Secrets

The Poetry of Secrets

Essay

My Hand on His Shoulder: A Descendant of Crypto-Jews Inserts Herself into the Historical Record

Kathleen Alcalá

June 21, 2021

Cover of Doña Gracia's Secret: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Jewish Woman in the Renaissance

Doña Gracia’s Secret: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Jewish Woman in the Renaissance

Marilyn Froggatt

Cover of The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa

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The Mikvah

Daniela Weil

November 16, 2020

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JBC Authors at the Table: Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine

June 15, 2020

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Gobsmacked by Medieval Spain

Gail Carson Levine

May 26, 2020