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    Sephardic Jewry

    Cover of My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi
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    My Moth­er’s Spice Cup­board: A Jour­ney from Bagh­dad to Bom­bay to Bondi
    Elana Ben­jamin
    Cover of The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
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    The For­get­ting Riv­er: A Mod­ern Tale of Sur­vival, Iden­ti­ty, and the Inquisition
    Doreen Car­va­jal
    Cover of Folktales of the Jews, Volume I: Tales From the Sephardic Dispersion
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    Folk­tales of the Jews, Vol­ume I: Tales From the Sephardic Dispersion
    Dan Ben-Amos, ed.
    Cover of Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History
    Chil­dren’s
    Always an Olivia: A Remark­able Fam­i­ly History
    Car­o­livia Herron
    Cover of Greece: A Jewish History
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    Greece: A Jew­ish History
    K. E. Fleming
    Cover of New Mexico's Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory
    Visu­al Arts
    New Mex­i­co’s Cryp­to-Jews: Image and Memory
    Cary Herz, photographs; Ori Z. Soltes and Mona Hernandes, essays
    Cover of The Other Within: the Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
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    The Oth­er With­in: the Mar­ra­nos: Split Iden­ti­ty and Emerg­ing Modernity
    Yirmayahu Yovel
    Cover of Much, Much Better
    Chil­dren’s
    Much, Much Better
    Chaim Kosofsky; Jessica Shiffman, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Hanukkah Moon
    Deborah Da Costa; Gosia Mosz, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Shout in the Sunshine
    Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
    Cover of The Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity
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    The Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Saloni­ka: His­to­ry, Mem­o­ry, Identity
    Bea Lewkowicz
    Cover of The Boy from Seville
    Chil­dren’s
    The Boy from Seville
    Dorit Orgad; Avi Katz, illus.; Son­dra Sil­ver­ston, trans.
    Cover of History of a Tragedy: The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
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    His­to­ry of a Tragedy: The Expul­sion of the Jews from Spain
    Joseph Pérez; Lysa Hochroth, trans.; Helen Nader, intro.
    Cover of The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
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    The Sephardic Fron­tier: The Recon­quista and the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Medieval Iberia
    Jonathan Ray
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    The Aro­mas of Aleppo
    Poopa Dweck
    Cover of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World
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    The Man in the White Shark­skin Suit: My Fam­i­ly’s Exo­dus From Old Cairo to the New World
    Lucette Lagna­do
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