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    Children's
    The Secret Recipe
    Ilan Sta­vans ; Taia Mor­ley , illus.
    Nonfiction
    Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
    Avi­ad Moreno
    Nonfiction
    The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
    Jacob Daniels
    Nonfiction
    Long­ing and Belong­ing: Jews in the Mod­ern Islam­ic World
    Nan­cy E. Berg | Dina Danon
    Nonfiction
    Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
    Elio Zarmati
    Nonfiction
    The Busi­ness of Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish and Greek Mer­chants of Saloni­ca from Ottoman to Greek Rule
    Paris Papami­chos Chronakis
    Nonfiction
    The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
    Alfred Asch­er ; Glo­ria J. Asch­er , trans.
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    A Turk­ish Rosh Hashanah
    Etan Basseri ; Zeynep Özata­lay , illus.
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    An Etrog from Across the Sea
    Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen and Ker­ry Olitzky ; Stacey Dressen McQueen , illus.
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    Tali and the Time­less Time
    Mira Z. Amiras
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    Fine, I’m a Ter­ri­ble Person
    Lisa F. Rosenberg
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    Rebec­ca of Ivanhoe
    Ali­son Bass
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    Mazal­tob
    Blanche Ben­da­han; Yaëlle Aza­gury and Frances Mali­no, trans. 
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    Leigh Bar­dugo
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    Across So Many Seas
    Ruth Behar
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    The Pome­gran­ate Gate
    Ariel Kaplan
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    The Inside Name
    Ran­di Sonen­shine ; Gina Capal­di , illus.
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    Hélène Jawhara Piñer
    Children's
    Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
    Bon­ni Goldberg
    Fiction
    South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jew­ish Expul­sion from Spain
    Eric Z. Weintraub
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