Items with the tag: iraq | Jewish Book Council

Cover of This Is Not a Cholent

This Is Not a Cholent

Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.

Cover of A Boy from Baghdad

A Boy from Baghdad

Cover of The Eucalyptus Cookbook

The Eucalyptus Cookbook

Cover of Blood of the Virgin

Blood of the Virgin

Essay

My Iraqi Jewish Grandmother’s Hands

Sarah Sassoon

March 30, 2023

Cover of Shoham's Bangle

Shoham’s Bangle

Cover of Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands

Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands

Richard Stursberg

Cover of Cover Me With My Izar

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

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Chava Lansky

July 1, 2014

Cover of Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front

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

Cover of New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Cover of Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

Cover of The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland

The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland

Cover of Where God Was Born

Where God Was Born