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Nonfiction Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870 – 1930: A Memoir Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche Michelle U. Campos Or Aleksandrowicz
From the Journal Pride, Prejudice, and the American Dream: Two Authors on the Immigrant Experiences That Shaped Their Debut Novels Zeeva Bukai, Esther Chehebar November 24, 2025
Essay What I Want for My Kids: Symbolic Bilingualism in Jewish Children’s Books Sarah Aroeste September 22, 2025
Nonfiction Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community Aviad Moreno
Nonfiction The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Nonfiction Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine Mostafa Hussein
Nonfiction The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
Excerpt Excerpt — Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews Hélène Jawhara Piñer September 16, 2024
Children’s An Etrog from Across the Sea Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.