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Nonfiction Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination Yael Halevi-Wise, ed.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The New Persian Kitchen Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJBC Network author Louisa Shafia returns with her latest cookbook, The New Persian Kitchen (Ten Speed Press). If this one is… Naomi Firestone-Teeter April 25, 2013
Nonfiction From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture Saba Soomekh
Cookbook Stella’s Sephardic Table: Jewish Family Recipes From the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes Stella Cohen; Marc Hoberman, photographer
Nonfiction Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Nonfiction Nomadic Soul: My journey from the Libyan Sahara to a Jewish Life in Los Angeles Ed Elhaderi
Nonfiction The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus Marjorie Lehman