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Nonfiction
Leav­ing Iran: Between Migra­tion and Exile
Farideh Goldin
Nonfiction
Jews and Islam­ic Law in Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Yemen
Mark S. Wagner
Nonfiction
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
Nonfiction
Farewell, Alep­po: My Father, My Peo­ple, and Their Long Jour­ney Home
Claudette E. Sutton
Nonfiction
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
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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
Fiction
Jerusalem: A Fam­i­ly Portrait
Boaz Yakin ; Nick Bertozzi, illus.
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Jew­ish Food: The World at Table
Matthew Good­man
Children's
The Wood­en Sword: A Jew­ish Folk­tale from Afghanistan
Ann Redisch Stam­pler ; Car­ol Lid­di­ment, illus.
Nonfiction
The Last Jews in Bagh­dad: Remem­ber­ing a Lost Homeland
Nis­sim Rejwan
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Farewell, Baby­lon: Com­ing of Age in Jew­ish Baghdad
Naim Kat­tan; Sheila Fis­chman, trans.
Nonfiction
Iraq’s Last Jews: Sto­ries of Dai­ly Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Mod­ern Babylon
Tamar Morad, Den­nis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
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My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for his Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq
Ariel Sabar
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We Look Like the Ene­my: The Hid­den Sto­ry of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands
Rachel Shabi
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The Sep­tem­bers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
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