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Nonfiction The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
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.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Madonna in a Fur Coat Natalie Aflalo September 22, 2017
Essay Sometimes History Throws Me A Bone This week, Roberta Rich, the author of The Midwife of Venice and a new book, The Harem Midwife, blogs for The Postscript on the the amazing (true!) stories that… Roberta Rich July 15, 2014
Nonfiction Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song Maureen Jackson
Essay Turkish Coffee for the Crown Prince Earlier this week, Reyna Simnegar, the author of Persian Food from the Non-Persian Bride: And Other Sephardic Kosher Recipes You Will Love, wrote… Reyna Simnegar March 18, 2011
