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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
Cookbook
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
Children's
The Last Song
Eva Wise­man
Poetry
An Ode to Saloni­ka: The Ladi­no Vers­es of Boue­na Sarfatty
Renee Levine Melammed
Cookbook
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
Nonfiction
Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
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
Jean Laf­fite: The Pirate Who Saved America
Susan Gold­man Rubin; Jeff Him­mel­man, illus.
Fiction
El Ilu­mi­na­do: A Graph­ic Novel
Ilan Sta­vans and Steve Sheinkin
Nonfiction
Between Chris­t­ian and Jew: Con­ver­sion and Inqui­si­tion in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391
Pao­la Tartakoff
Nonfiction
A Jew­ish Renais­sance in Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Spain
Mark D. Meyerson
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