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A Banker’s Jour­ney: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Glob­al Finan­cial Empire
Daniel Gross
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
The Boston Choco­late Party
Tami Lehman-Wilzig | Deb­o­rah R. Prinz
Children's
Hanukkah in Lit­tle Havana
Julie Anna Blank ; Car­los Vélez Aguil­era , illus.
Fiction
The Incan­des­cent Threads
Richard Zim­ler
Children's
José and the Pirate Cap­tain Toledano
Arnon Z. Shorr | Joshua M. Edelglass
Nonfiction
Sephar­di Voic­es: The Untold Expul­sion of Jews from Arab Lands
Hen­ry Green | Richard Stursberg
Nonfiction
Jew­ish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History
Jonathan Ray
Nonfiction
Once We Were Slaves: The Extra­or­di­nary Jour­ney of a Mul­ti-Racial Jew­ish Family
Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction
Jews, Food, and Spain: The Old­est Medieval Span­ish Cook­book and the Sephardic Culi­nary Heritage
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Nonfiction
Sephar­di: Cook­ing the His­to­ry. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Dias­po­ra, from the 13th Cen­tu­ry to Today
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
Nonfiction
Womb Of Dia­monds: A True Adven­ture From Child Bride Of Syr­ia To Celebri­ty Busi­ness­woman Of Japan
Ezra Choueke
Fiction
The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives: A Novel
Tim Dar­cy Ellis
Fiction
The Poet­ry of Secrets
Cam­bria Gordon
Fiction
Home in a Hun­dred Places
Sarah Dayan Mueller
Nonfiction
Fam­i­ly Papers: A Sephardic Jour­ney Through the Twen­ti­eth Century
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
Nonfiction
The Con­ver­so’s Return: Con­ver­sion and Sephar­di His­to­ry in Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­ture and Culture
Dalia Kandiy­oti
Nonfiction
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Mod­ern History
Dina Danon
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Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
Devi Mays
Fiction
Walk Till You Disappear
Jacque­line Dem­bar Greene
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