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Items with the category:

Mizrahi Jewry

Cover of This Is Not a Cholent
Chil­dren’s
This Is Not a Cholent
Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.
Cover of Saliman and the Memory Stone
Chil­dren’s
Sal­i­man and the Mem­o­ry Stone
Erica Lyons; Yinon Ptahia, illus.
Essay—From the Journal

The Cross­ing

Jor­dan Salama
October 21, 2024
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Fic­tion
Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed: A Novel
Ayelet Tsabari
Interview—From the Journal

Words Between Worlds: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ayelet Tsabari

Simona Zaret­sky
September 9, 2024
Cover of A Boy from Baghdad
Chil­dren’s
A Boy from Baghdad
Miri­am Halahmy
Cover of Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
Non­fic­tion
Israel’s Black Pan­thers: The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth
Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Fic­tion
The Brides­man
Savyon Liebrecht; Gilah Kahn-Hoffman, trans.
Interview—From the Journal

‘To Cel­e­brate Non­con­for­mi­ty’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David Adj­mi and Jack Hazan

Michael Harari
November 27, 2023
Cover of Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community
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Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
Avi­ad Moreno
Essay

Invent­ing Zacharias: Writ­ing Mizrahi Stories

Jas­min Attia
July 10, 2023
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Fic­tion
Just a Hat
S. Khu­biar
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Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Oded Zinger
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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.
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Chil­dren’s
Shoham’s Ban­gle
Sarah Sas­soon
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Non­fic­tion
I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
Minou Mich­lin
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