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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.
Nonfiction Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391 Paola Tartakoff
Nonfiction Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire Olga Borovaya
Nonfiction Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Fiction King Solomon and the Golden fish: Tales From the Sephardic Tradition Matilda Koén-Sarano, ed.; Regineta Haboucha, trans. and annotator
Nonfiction Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg, eds.
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