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    Sephardic Jewry

    Cover of The Secret Recipe
    Chil­dren’s
    The Secret Recipe
    Ilan Stavans; Taia Morley, illus.
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    Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
    Avi­ad Moreno
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    The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
    Jacob Daniels
    Cover of Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World
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    Long­ing and Belong­ing: Jews in the Mod­ern Islam­ic World
    Nan­cy E. Berg
    Dina Danon
    Cover of Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile
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    Good­bye, Tahrir Square: Com­ing of Age as a Jew of the Nile
    Elio Zarmati
    Cover of The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule
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    The Busi­ness of Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish and Greek Mer­chants of Saloni­ca from Ottoman to Greek Rule
    Paris Papami­chos Chronakis
    Cover of The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I
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    The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
    Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
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    Excerpt — Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the His­to­ry of the Sephardic Jews

    Hélène Jawhara Piñer
    September 16, 2024
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Turk­ish Rosh Hashanah
    Etan Basseri; Zeynep Özatalay, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    An Etrog from Across the Sea
    Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
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    Fine, I’m a Ter­ri­ble Person
    Lisa F. Rosenberg
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    Rebec­ca of Ivanhoe
    Ali­son Bass
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    Chil­dren’s
    Tali and the Time­less Time
    Mira Z. Amiras
    Cover of Mazaltob
    Fic­tion
    Mazal­tob
    Blanche Bendahan; Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, trans. 
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    Fic­tion
    The Famil­iar
    Leigh Bar­dugo
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    Four Sephardic Jew­ish Girls Caught in the Web of History

    Ruth Behar
    February 5, 2024
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