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Fiction
Shoham’s Ban­gle
Sarah Sas­soon
Nonfiction
I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
Minou Mich­lin
Children's
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Sto­ry of the World’s First Female Rabbi
Sigal Samuel , Vali Mintzi (illus.)
Nonfiction
Con­cealed: Mem­oir of a Jew­ish-Iran­ian Daugh­ter Caught Between the Chador and America
Esther Ami­ni
Fiction
And the Bride Closed the Door
Ronit Mat­alon (auth.), Jes­si­ca Cohen (trans.)
Nonfiction
The Art of Leav­ing: A Memoir
Ayelet Tsabari
Cookbook
Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jew­ish Kitchen
Sue Sper­tus Larkey
Nonfiction
Maman
Moris K. Niknam
Fiction
Isles of the Blind
Robert Rosen­berg
Nonfiction
Leav­ing Iran: Between Migra­tion and Exile
Farideh Goldin
Nonfiction
Jews and Islam­ic Law in Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Yemen
Mark S. Wagner
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Rab­bis, Sor­cer­ers, Kings, and Priests: The Cul­ture of the Tal­mud in Ancient Iran
Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Nonfiction
Tra­di­tion­al Soci­ety in Tran­si­tion: The Yemeni Jew­ish Experience
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
Fiction
The Best Place on Earth: Stories
Ayelet Tsabari
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Farewell, Alep­po: My Father, My Peo­ple, and Their Long Jour­ney Home
Claudette E. Sutton
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Jour­ney From the Land of No: A Girl­hood Caught in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Iran
Roya Hakakian
Nonfiction
Iden­ti­ty, Place, and Sub­ver­sion in Con­tem­po­rary Mizrahi Cin­e­ma in Israel
Yaron She­mer
Cookbook
Jew­ish Soul Food: From Min­sk to Mar­rakesh, More Than 100 Unfor­get­table Dish­es Updat­ed for Today’s Kitchen
Jan­na Gur
Nonfiction
New Baby­lo­ni­ans: A His­to­ry of Jews in Mod­ern Iraq
Orit Bashkin
Fiction
Tomor­row There Will Be Apricots
Jes­si­ca Soffer
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