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    Sephardic Jewry

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    Four Sephardic Jew­ish Girls Caught in the Web of History

    Ruth Behar
    February 5, 2024
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    Chil­dren’s
    Across So Many Seas
    Ruth Behar
    Cover of The Pomegranate Gate
    Fic­tion
    The Pome­gran­ate Gate
    Ariel Kaplan
    Cover of The Inside Name
    Chil­dren’s
    The Inside Name
    Randi Sonenshine; Gina Capaldi, illus.
    Cover of Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the History of the Sephardic Jews
    Cook­book
    Matzah and Flour: Recipes from the His­to­ry of the Sephardic Jews
    Hélène Jawhara Piñer
    Cover of Doña Gracia Saved Worlds
    Chil­dren’s
    Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
    Bon­ni Goldberg
    Cover of South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jewish Expulsion from Spain
    Fic­tion
    South of Sepharad: The 1492 Jew­ish Expul­sion from Spain
    Eric Z. Weintraub
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    Chil­dren’s
    Luis de Tor­res Sails to Freedom
    Tami Lehman-Wilzig; Oliver Averill, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Kan­ti­ka
    Eliz­a­beth Graver
    Essay

    Jews of the Span­ish Home­land: Find­ing My Sephardic Fam­i­ly in a 1929 Film

    Eliz­a­beth Graver
    April 10, 2023
    Cover of A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire
    Non­fic­tion
    A Banker’s Jour­ney: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Glob­al Finan­cial Empire
    Daniel Gross
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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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    The Boston Choco­late Party
    Tami Lehman-Wilzig
    Deb­o­rah R. Prinz
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    Chil­dren’s
    Hanukkah in Lit­tle Havana
    Julie Anna Blank; Carlos Vélez Aguilera, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    The Incan­des­cent Threads
    Richard Zim­ler
    Essay

    The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

    Ruth Behar
    June 13, 2022
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