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Interview

Meet National Jewish Book Award Winner Michael David Lukas

JBC Staff

February 27, 2019

Excerpt

Excerpt: The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

Michael David Lukas

March 1, 2018

The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

Michael David Lukas

Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture

The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967 – 1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

The Hurry-Up Exit from Egypt

Gary Bower; Barbara Chotiner, illus.

The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days

Excerpt

“If you think Cairo’s any better, my dear, you’re mistaken.”

Yitzhak Gormezano Goren

August 12, 2015

Alexandrian Summer

Yitzhak Gormezano Goren; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.

Scarlett and Sam: Escape from Egypt

Eric A. Kimmel; Ivica Stevanovic, illus.

The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman

Essay

My Name is Yusha

Josh Weil, author of the recently published The Great Glass Sea, is blogging here today for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.Any run-in with…

Josh Weil

July 8, 2014

Essay

The Champagne Spy

Nicholas Kulish is an author and correspondent for The New York Times. His most recent book, The Eternal Nazi, co-authored with Souad Mekhennet, is the story of Nazi…

Nicholas Kulish

June 9, 2014

Essay

The Journey Back

Juliana Maio was born in Egypt, but expelled from the country with her family during the Suez Crisis. She was raised in France, completed her higher education in the…

Juliana Maio

April 2, 2014

Out of Egypt: A Memoir