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Mizrahi Stories 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. Children's Saliman and the Memory Stone Erica Lyons; Yinon Ptahia, illus. Fiction Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel Ayelet Tsabari Nonfiction Caravan of Hope: A Bukharan Woman's Journey to Freedom Dahlia Abraham-Klein Nonfiction I Kept Walking: The Unlikely Story of a Persian Woman with Polio Minou Michlin Fiction Just a Hat S. Khubiar Nonfiction Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt Oded Zinger Nonfiction Lot Six David Adjmi Children's Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus. Cookbook Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen Adeena Sussman Children's Shoham's Bangle Sarah Sassoon Nonfiction Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story Jordan Salama Fiction The Best Place on Earth: Stories Ayelet Tsabari Fiction The Bridesman Savyon Liebrecht; Gilah Kahn-Hoffman, trans. Nonfiction The Comics of Asaf Hanuka: Telling Particular and Universal Stories Matt Reingold Nonfiction Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times Zion Zohar, ed. Nonfiction Maman Moris K. Niknam Nonfiction Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans. Nonfiction Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile Farideh Goldin Fiction Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots Jessica Soffer Nonfiction The Art of Leaving: A Memoir Ayelet Tsabari Nonfiction Farewell, Aleppo: My Father, My People, and Their Long Journey Home Claudette E. Sutton Cookbook Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated for Today's Kitchen Janna Gur Nonfiction The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland Nissim Rejwan Visual Arts Isaac Mizrahi Chee Pearlman and Ulrich Lehmann Fiction Jerusalem: A Family Portrait Boaz Yakin; Nick Bertozzi, illus. Nonfiction New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq Orit Bashkin Cookbook Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jewish Kitchen Sue Spertus Larkey Nonfiction Iraq's Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Modern Babylon Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds. Nonfiction Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran Jason Sion Mokhtarian Fiction And the Bride Closed the Door Ronit Matalon; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction Waking Lions Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Nonfiction Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America Esther Amini Fiction Farewell to Dejla: Stories of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile Tova Murad Sadka Fiction Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3: Tales from Arab Lands Dan Ben-Amos, ed and commentator Fiction Isles of the Blind Robert Rosenberg Nonfiction My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq Ariel Sabar Nonfiction Life as a Visitor Angella M. Nazarian Fiction The Septembers of Shiraz Dalia Sofer Nonfiction Traditional Society in Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman Fiction The Sound of Our Steps Ronit Matalon; Dalya Bilu, trans. Fiction Footprints on the Heart Jean Naggar Cookbook Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking Einat Admony, Janna Gur Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award Nonfiction The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible Matti Friedman Fiction The Last Watchman of Old Cairo Michael David Lukas Nonfiction Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands Henry Green, Richard Stursberg Fiction The Sound of Our Steps Ronit Matalon; Dalya Bilu, trans. Nonfiction Sephardic Women's Voices: Out of North Africa Nina B. Lichtenstein Nonfiction Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole Fiction The Genizah at the House of Shepher Tamar Yellin Nonfiction Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel Yaron Shemer Fiction Henna House Nomi Eve Fiction City of the Sun Juliana Maio Fiction The Girl from the Garden Parnaz Foroutan Nonfiction Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad–My Grandfather's Life Shahrzad Elghanayan identity love & relationships family saga immigration
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.
Children's Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus.
Cookbook Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated for Today's Kitchen Janna Gur
Nonfiction Iraq's Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Modern Babylon Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
Nonfiction Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Nonfiction Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America Esther Amini
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible Matti Friedman
Nonfiction Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands Henry Green, Richard Stursberg
Nonfiction Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad–My Grandfather's Life Shahrzad Elghanayan
