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Cookbook Bavel: Modern Recipes Inspired by the Middle East Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis with Lesley Suter
Nonfiction Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Dali, The Marx Brothers and the Greatest Movie Never Made Josh Frank
Nonfiction Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig
Nonfiction Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross
Nonfiction Serenade: A Memoir of Music and Love from Vienna and Prague to Los Angeles, 1927 to World War II to 2012 Carol Jean Delmar
Essay The Last Jew of Boyle Heights Earlier this week, Janice Steinberg wrote about “Djewess Unchained,” the Song of the Sea, and Yiddish inflected English and the audiobook version of her novel The Tin… Janice Steinberg February 1, 2013
Recommended Reading Iran meets Beverly Hills: Angella M. Nazarian Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn Angella M. Nazarian’s stunning new book Life As a Visitor she blends prose and poetry with memoir and visual arts.… JBC Staff April 13, 2010