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    Nonfiction
    Jew­ish Spain: A Mediter­ranean Memory
    Tabea Alexa Linhard
    Nonfiction
    Mix­ing Musics: Turk­ish Jew­ry and the Urban Land­scape of a Sacred Song
    Mau­reen Jackson
    Nonfiction
    A Vig­i­lant Soci­ety: Jew­ish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain
    Javier Roiz; Sel­ma L. Mar­garet­ten, trans.
    Nonfiction
    After Expul­sion: 1492 and the Mak­ing of Sephardic Jewry
    Jonathan Ray
    Nonfiction
    Jews Under Moroc­can Skies: Two Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish Life
    Raphael David Elmaleh and George Ricketts
    Nonfiction
    Sephardism: Span­ish Jew­ish His­to­ry and the Mod­ern Lit­er­ary Imagination
    Yael Hale­vi-Wise, ed.
    Fiction
    The Blind Eye: A Sephardic Journey
    Mar­cia Fine
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    The New Per­sian Kitchen
    Louisa Shafia
    Nonfiction
    From the Shahs to Los Ange­les: Three Gen­er­a­tions of Iran­ian Jew­ish Women between Reli­gion and Culture
    Saba Soomekh
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    The Last Song
    Eva Wise­man
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    An Ode to Saloni­ka: The Ladi­no Vers­es of Boue­na Sarfatty
    Renee Levine Melammed
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    Grand­ma Elmale­h’s Moroc­can Cookbook
    Lisa Elmaleh Craig
    Nonfiction
    Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
    Tirt­sah Levie Bernfeld
    Cookbook
    Stel­la’s Sephardic Table: Jew­ish Fam­i­ly Recipes From the Mediter­ranean Island of Rhodes
    Stel­la Cohen; Marc Hober­man, photographer
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    Bracha Yaniv
    Nonfiction
    Dis­si­dent Rab­bi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
    Yaa­cob Dweck
    Nonfiction
    Nomadic Soul: My jour­ney from the Libyan Sahara to a Jew­ish Life in Los Angeles
    Ed Elhaderi
    Nonfiction
    The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Tal­mu­dic Corpus
    Mar­jorie Lehman
    Children's
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    Susan Gold­man Rubin; Jeff Him­mel­man, illus.
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    El Ilu­mi­na­do: A Graph­ic Novel
    Ilan Sta­vans and Steve Sheinkin
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