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Nonfiction The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus Marjorie Lehman
Nonfiction Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391 Paola Tartakoff
Nonfiction Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire Olga Borovaya
Nonfiction Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
Fiction King Solomon and the Golden fish: Tales From the Sephardic Tradition Matilda Koén-Sarano, ed.; Regineta Haboucha, trans. and annotator
Nonfiction Contemporary Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Approach Margalit Bejarano and Edna Aizenberg, eds.
Essay Genetic Memory: Feeling Jewish Earlier this week, Doreen Carvajal wrote about trying to recover her family’s secret identity and how to unlock and preserve memories. She has been blogging… Doreen Carvajal August 17, 2012
Essay Unlocking Memories Earlier this week, Doreen Carvajal wrote about trying to recover her family’s secret identity. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Doreen Carvajal August 15, 2012
Essay Hunting Family Ghosts Doreen Carvajal’s first book, The Forgetting River, is about her search to recover her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a mystical white… Doreen Carvajal August 13, 2012
Nonfiction Fire and Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition Anna Lanyon
Nonfiction A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a‑Levi Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds.; Isaac Jerusalmi, trans.
