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Excerpt Excerpt — 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World Barbara Vinick, Shulamit Reinharz February 12, 2024
Children’s The Promise Bridget Hodder and Fawzia Gilani-Williams; Cinzia Battistel, illus.
Nonfiction A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean Leïla Sebbar, cur.; Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds.; Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson, trans.
Nonfiction The Hitler Haggadah: A Moroccan Jew’s Wartime Retelling of the Passover Story Simon Coiffeur
Essay Recipe: Moroccan-Style Gefilte Fish For Passover Tamar Ansh is an author, editor and food columnist, among many other things. Her newest book, Let My Children Cook!, is a Passover cookbook for kids aged 8 – 108 with… Tamar Ansh April 7, 2014
Essay Kosher Soup for Ramadan & Other Tales of My Mother’s Moroccan Childhood Ruchama King Feuerman’s celebrated first novel about matchmaking (Seven Blessings, SMP) earned her the praise of The New York Times and Dallas Morning News, and… Ruchama King Feuerman October 28, 2013
Nonfiction Jews Under Moroccan Skies: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life Raphael David Elmaleh and George Ricketts