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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Nonfiction Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands Henry Green Richard Stursberg
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Tomorrow There Will be Apricots Posted by Chava LanskyIn Tomorrow There Will be Apricots Jessica Soffer tells the story of two women adrift in New York City: one an almost orphan and the second… Chava Lansky July 1, 2014
Essay Is History a Prison or a Home? Earlier this week, Joshua Fattal wrote about remembering Hebrew School while a prisoner in Iran and being a Jew celebrating Christmas in Iranian prison. He… Joshua Fattal March 21, 2014
Nonfiction My Mother’s Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi Elana Benjamin
Nonfiction Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
Nonfiction Iraq’s Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Modern Babylon Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
