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Sephardic Jewry

Cover of Peas, Love & Carrots: The Cookbook
Cook­book
Peas, Love & Car­rots: The Cookbook
Danielle Ren­ov
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Chil­dren’s
The Key from Spain: Flo­ry Jago­da and Her Music 
Debbie Levy; Sonja Wimmer, illus.
Interview

Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Jonathan Decter 

JBC Staff
February 14, 2019
Cover of The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
Poet­ry
The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas
Marjorie Agosín; Jacqueline Nanfito, trans.
Cover of A Cage Without Bars
Chil­dren’s
A Cage With­out Bars
Anne Dublin
Cover of Sephardic Women's Voices: Out of North Africa
Non­fic­tion
Sephardic Wom­en’s Voic­es: Out of North Africa
Nina B. Lichtenstein
Cover of Gateway to the Moon: A Novel
Fic­tion
Gate­way to the Moon: A Novel
Mary Mor­ris
Cover of Dreams of Re-Creation in Jamaica: The Holocaust, Internment, Jewish Refugees in Gibraltar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
Non­fic­tion
Dreams of Re-Cre­ation in Jamaica: The Holo­caust, Intern­ment, Jew­ish Refugees in Gibral­tar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
Diana Cooper-Clark
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Non­fic­tion
The Mer­chants of Oran: A Jew­ish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Joshua Schreier
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Chil­dren’s
Bewitched by Soli­ka and Oth­er Judeo-Span­ish Tales
François Azar; Petros Bouloubasis, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
Ora de Despertar
Sarah Aroeste
Cover of Backyard Kitchen: Mediterranean Salads
Cook­book
Back­yard Kitchen: Mediter­ranean Salads
Sari­na Roffe
Cover of Vulture in a Cage: Poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Poet­ry
Vul­ture in a Cage: Poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Solomon Ibn Gabirol; Raymond P. Scheindlin, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Home­less Tongues: Poet­ry and Lan­guages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Monique Rodrigues Balbuena
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Non­fic­tion
Clep­sy­dra: Essay on the Plu­ral­i­ty of Time in Judaism
Sylvie Anne Goldberg; Benjamin Ivry, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Saloni­ca: Between the Ottoman Empire and Mod­ern Greece
Devin E. Naar
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