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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
Essay Doppelgänger: Or Aya and Me Ayelet Tsabari writes a “strange, unexpected postscript” to her essay “A Simple Girl,” excerpted in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade. Ayelet Tsabari May 14, 2019
From the Journal A Simple Girl Growing up, Ayelet Tsabari grappled with Mizrahi stereotypes — and found inspiration in Ofra Haza, Israel’s iconic, Yemini singer. Ayelet Tsabari May 13, 2019
Nonfiction Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Nonfiction Traditional Society in Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
