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Nonfiction
Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
Richard L. Kagan; Abi­gail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Nonfiction
Mod­ern Ladi­no Cul­ture: Press, Belles Let­tres, and The­ater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Olga Borovaya
Fiction
King Solomon and the Gold­en fish: Tales From the Sephardic Tradition
Matil­da Koén-Sara­no, ed.; Regine­ta Haboucha, trans. and annotator
Cookbook
Jew­ish Food: The World at Table
Matthew Good­man
Nonfiction
Con­tem­po­rary Sephardic Iden­ti­ty in the Amer­i­c­as: An Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Approach
Mar­galit Bejara­no and Edna Aizen­berg, eds.
Nonfiction
Two Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish Life in Morocco
Haim Zafrani
Nonfiction
Fire and Song: The Sto­ry of Luis de Car­va­jal and the Mex­i­can Inquisition
Anna Lany­on
Nonfiction
A Jew­ish Voice from Ottoman Saloni­ca: The Ladi­no Mem­oir of Sa’adi Besalel a‑Levi
Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abre­vaya Stein, eds.; Isaac Jerusal­mi, trans.
Nonfiction
The Arab Jews: A Post­colo­nial Read­ing of Nation­al­ism, Reli­gion, and Ethnicity
Yehou­da Shenhav
Nonfiction
My Moth­er’s Spice Cup­board: A Jour­ney from Bagh­dad to Bom­bay to Bondi
Elana Ben­jamin
Nonfiction
The For­get­ting Riv­er: A Mod­ern Tale of Sur­vival, Iden­ti­ty, and the Inquisition
Doreen Car­va­jal
Fiction
Folk­tales of the Jews, Vol­ume I: Tales From the Sephardic Dispersion
Dan Ben-Amos, ed.
Children's
Always an Olivia: A Remark­able Fam­i­ly History
Car­o­livia Herron
Nonfiction
Greece: A Jew­ish History
K. E. Fleming
Visual Arts
New Mex­i­co’s Cryp­to-Jews: Image and Memory
Cary Herz, pho­tographs; Ori Z. Soltes and Mona Her­nan­des, essays
Nonfiction
The Oth­er With­in: the Mar­ra­nos: Split Iden­ti­ty and Emerg­ing Modernity
Yir­mayahu Yovel
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Much, Much Better
Chaim Kosof­sky; Jes­si­ca Shiff­man, illus.
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A Shout in the Sunshine
Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
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Hanukkah Moon
Deb­o­rah Da Cos­ta; Gosia Mosz, illus.
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The Boy from Seville
Dorit Orgad; Avi Katz, illus.; Son­dra Sil­ver­ston , trans.
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