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Fic­tion
Shoham’s Ban­gle
Sarah Sas­soon
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Non­fic­tion
Sephar­di Voic­es: The Untold Expul­sion of Jews from Arab Lands
Hen­ry Green
Richard Sturs­berg
Cover of Cover Me With My Izar
Fic­tion
Cov­er Me With My Izar
Nora Houri-Haim
Essay

‘A Land­scape of Ghost Towns’: Geno­cide in Iraq

Seth J. Frantzman
November 4, 2019
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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
Cover of Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front
Non­fic­tion
Val­or: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front
Mark Lee Greenblatt
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
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Non­fic­tion
New Baby­lo­ni­ans: A His­to­ry of Jews in Mod­ern Iraq
Orit Bashkin
Cover of Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
Fic­tion
Tomor­row There Will Be Apricots
Jes­si­ca Soffer
Cover of The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland
Non­fic­tion
The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
Nissim Rejwan
Cover of Where God Was Born
Non­fic­tion
Where God Was Born
Bruce Feiler
Cover of My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi
Non­fic­tion
My Moth­er’s Spice Cup­board: A Jour­ney from Bagh­dad to Bom­bay to Bondi
Elana Ben­jamin
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Non­fic­tion
Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Iraq’s Last Jews: Sto­ries of Dai­ly Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Mod­ern Babylon
Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
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My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for his Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq
Ariel Sabar
Cover of Farewell to Dejla: Stories of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile
Fic­tion
Farewell to Dejla: Sto­ries of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile
Tova Murad Sadka
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