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Items with the tag:

iraq

Cover of This Is Not a Cholent
Chil­dren’s
This Is Not a Cholent
Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
A Boy from Baghdad
Miri­am Halahmy
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Cook­book
The Euca­lyp­tus Cookbook
Moshe Basson
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Fic­tion
Blood of the Virgin
Sam­my Harkham
Essay

My Iraqi Jew­ish Grandmother’s Hands

Sarah Sas­soon
March 30, 2023
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Chil­dren’s
Shoham’s Ban­gle
Sarah Sas­soon
Cover of Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
Non­fic­tion
Sephar­di Voic­es: The Untold Expul­sion of Jews from Arab Lands
Hen­ry Green
Richard Sturs­berg
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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
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Non­fic­tion
The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
Nissim Rejwan
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Non­fic­tion
Where God Was Born
Bruce Feiler
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