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Nonfiction Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination Yael Halevi-Wise, ed.
Nonfiction Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391 Paola Tartakoff
Nonfiction Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Nonfiction A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a‑Levi Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.; Isaac Jerusalmi, trans.
Nonfiction History of a Tragedy: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain Joseph Pérez; Lysa Hochroth, trans.; Helen Nader, intro.
Nonfiction A History of Jewish Catalonia: The Life and Death of Jewish Communities in Medieval Catalonia Sílvia Planas and Manuel Forcano
Nonfiction Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times Zion Zohar, ed.
Essay Jews in Odd Places Allison Amend is the author of the novel Stations West. She will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning’s… Allison Amend June 14, 2010
Essay Celebrating the Global People Charles London, author of Far from Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book… Charles London August 10, 2009