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    Nonfiction
    Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
    Avi­ad Moreno
    Nonfiction
    Long­ing and Belong­ing: Jews in the Mod­ern Islam­ic World
    Nan­cy E. Berg | Dina Danon
    Children's
    This Is Not a Cholent
    Sarah Sas­soon ; Viviana Garo­foli , illus.
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    Sal­i­man and the Mem­o­ry Stone
    Eri­ca Lyons ; Yinon Ptahia , illus.
    Fiction
    Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed: A Novel
    Ayelet Tsabari
    Children's
    A Boy from Baghdad
    Miri­am Halahmy
    Nonfiction
    Israel’s Black Pan­thers: The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth
    Asaf Elia-Shalev
    Fiction
    The Brides­man
    Savy­on Liebrecht ; Gilah Kahn-Hoff­man , trans.
    Fiction
    Just a Hat
    S. Khu­biar
    Nonfiction
    Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
    Oded Zinger
    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
    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 ; Jes­si­ca Cohen , trans.
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    The Art of Leav­ing: A Memoir
    Ayelet Tsabari
    Cookbook
    Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jew­ish Kitchen
    Sue Sper­tus Larkey
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    Maman
    Moris K. Niknam
    Fiction
    Isles of the Blind
    Robert Rosen­berg
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