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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Essay Jews of the Spanish Homeland: Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film Elizabeth Graver April 10, 2023
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
Nonfiction Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage Hélène Jawhara Piñer
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
Fiction Doña Gracia’s Secret: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Jewish Woman in the Renaissance Marilyn Froggatt
Excerpt Excerpt — The Jewish Intellectual Tradition: A History of Learning and Achievement Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Simcha Fishbane November 23, 2020