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    Lin­da Capelo­to Sendowski
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    A Hug from Afar
    Claire Barkey Flash
    Visual Arts
    The Broth­er Hag­gadah: A Medieval Sephar­di Mas­ter­piece in Facsimile
    Marc Michael Epstein, ed.
    Nonfiction
    Ger­man Jew­ry and the Allure of the Sephardic
    John M. Efron
    Nonfiction
    Return to Casablan­ca: Jews, Mus­lims and an Israeli Anthropologist
    André Levy
    Nonfiction
    Dou­ble Dias­po­ra in Sephardic Literature
    David A. Wacks
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    The New Mediter­ranean Jew­ish Table: Old World Recipes for the Mod­ern Home
    Joyce Gold­stein
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    Alexan­dri­an Summer
    Yitzhak Gormezano Goren; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.
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    Nono’s Kiss­es for Sephardic Children
    Flori Senor Rosen­thal; Flori Senor Rosen­thal & Steve Fer­chaud, illus.
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    Maso­rah and Text Crit­i­cism in the Ear­ly Mod­ern Mediter­ranean: Moshe Ibn Zabara and Mena­hem De Lonzano
    Jor­dan S. Penkower
    Nonfiction
    Becom­ing Ottomans: Sephar­di Jews and Impe­r­i­al Cit­i­zen­ship in the Mod­ern Era
    Julia Phillips Cohen
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    The Busi­ness of Iden­ti­ty: Jews, Mus­lims and Eco­nom­ic Life in Medieval Egypt
    Phillip Ack­er­man-Lieber­man
    Nonfiction
    Sephar­di Lives: A Doc­u­men­tary His­to­ry, 1700 – 1950
    Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abre­vaya Stein, eds.
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    Saha­ran Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
    Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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    Rab­binic Cre­ativ­i­ty in the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
    Zvi Zohar
    Nonfiction
    From Bom­boli­ni to Bagel: A Sto­ry of Two Worlds
    Jacque­line Semha Gmach
    Cookbook
    Jew­ish Soul Food: From Min­sk to Mar­rakesh, More Than 100 Unfor­get­table Dish­es Updat­ed for Today’s Kitchen
    Jan­na Gur
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    Where the Wind Blew: A Boy­hood Lost in Tangier
    Michel Emile Bensadon
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    Out of Egypt: A Memoir
    André Aci­man
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    The Map­mak­er’s Daughter
    Lau­rel Corona
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