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    Sephardic Jewry

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    Clep­sy­dra: Essay on the Plu­ral­i­ty of Time in Judaism
    Sylvie Anne Goldberg; Benjamin Ivry, trans.
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    Jew­ish Saloni­ca: Between the Ottoman Empire and Mod­ern Greece
    Devin E. Naar
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    Anti-Jew­ish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Roy­al Response 1391 – 1392
    Benjamin R. Gampel
    Cover of Extraterritorial Dreams: Europe Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
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    Extrater­ri­to­r­i­al Dreams: Europe Cit­i­zen­ship, Sephar­di Jews, and the Ottoman Twen­ti­eth Century
    Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
    Cover of Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America
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    Oy, Caram­ba!: An Anthol­o­gy of Jew­ish Sto­ries from Latin America
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Cover of Sephardic Baking from Nona and More Favorites
    Cook­book
    Sephardic Bak­ing from Nona and More Favorites
    Linda Capeloto Sendowski
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    A Hug from Afar
    Claire Barkey Flash
    Essay

    Sephardim and Ashkenazim

    Sar­it Yishai-Levi
    April 6, 2016
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    The Broth­er Hag­gadah: A Medieval Sephar­di Mas­ter­piece in Facsimile
    Marc Michael Epstein, ed.
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    Ger­man Jew­ry and the Allure of the Sephardic
    John M. Efron
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    Return to Casablan­ca: Jews, Mus­lims and an Israeli Anthropologist
    André Levy
    Cover of Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
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    Dou­ble Dias­po­ra in Sephardic Literature
    David A. Wacks
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    Cook­book
    The New Mediter­ranean Jew­ish Table: Old World Recipes for the Mod­ern Home
    Joyce Gold­stein
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    “If you think Cairo’s any bet­ter, my dear, you’re mistaken.”

    Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
    August 12, 2015
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    Alexan­dri­an Summer
    Yitzhak Gormezano Goren; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.
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    Nono’s Kiss­es for Sephardic Children
    Flori Senor Rosenthal; Flori Senor Rosenthal & Steve Ferchaud, illus.
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