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Nonfiction Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth Asaf Elia-Shalev
Interview—From the Journal ‘To Celebrate Nonconformity’: A Conversation with David Adjmi and Jack Hazan Michael Harari November 27, 2023
Nonfiction Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt Oded Zinger
Nonfiction A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean Leïla Sebbar, cur.; Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds.; Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson, trans.
Children’s Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus.
Nonfiction Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America Esther Amini
From the Journal The Refugee in Fiction: A Conversation with Jenny Erpenbeck and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Becca Kantor November 18, 2019