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Non­fic­tion
Return­ing from Silence: Jenny’s Story
Michèle Sarde, Ruper Swyer, trans; 
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Chil­dren’s
The Boston Choco­late Party
Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Deb­o­rah R. Prinz
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Fic­tion
Ellen Out­side the Lines
A. J. Sass
Essay

The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

Ruth Behar
June 13, 2022
Essay

Lit­tle Nods and Food for Thought: Inte­grat­ing Jew­ish Char­ac­ters and Judaism into Mid­dle Grade Novels

A. J. Sass
March 22, 2022
Cover of The Chocolate King
Chil­dren’s
The Choco­late King
Michael Leventhal, Laura Catalan (Illustrator)
Cover of Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
Non­fic­tion
Jews, Food, and Spain: The Old­est Medieval Span­ish Cook­book and the Sephardic Culi­nary Heritage
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Cover of Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century to Today
Non­fic­tion
Sephar­di: Cook­ing the His­to­ry. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Dias­po­ra, from the 13th Cen­tu­ry to Today
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Essay

My Hand on His Shoul­der: A Descen­dant of Cryp­to-Jews Inserts Her­self into the His­tor­i­cal Record

Kath­leen Alcalá
June 21, 2021
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Fic­tion
The Poet­ry of Secrets
Cam­bria Gordon
Cover of Doña Gracia's Secret: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Jewish Woman in the Renaissance
Fic­tion
Doña Gra­ci­a’s Secret: The Adven­tures of an Extra­or­di­nary Jew­ish Woman in the Renaissance
Mar­i­lyn Froggatt
Cover of The Memory Work of Jewish Spain
Non­fic­tion
The Mem­o­ry Work of Jew­ish Spain
Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
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Fic­tion
Life and Oth­er Shortcomings
Corie Adj­mi
Excerpt

Excerpt — The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement 

Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Sim­cha Fishbane
November 23, 2020
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JBC Authors at the Table: Gail Car­son Levine

Gail Car­son Levine
June 15, 2020
Essay

Gob­s­macked by Medieval Spain

Gail Car­son Levine
May 26, 2020
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