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egypt

Poetry

Esther’s Angels

Wendy Dick­stein
August 24, 2020
Non­fic­tion
The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Mari­na Rustow
Fic­tion
Foot­prints on the Heart
Jean Nag­gar
From the Journal

The World of Egypt­ian Jew­ish Literature

Jean Nag­gar
April 4, 2020
Jew­ish Text
The Promise of the Land: A Passover Haggadah
Ellen Bernstein, Galia Goodman (Illust.)
Essay

Passover 5780/2020 Hag­gadah Roundup

Maron L. Waxman
March 30, 2020
Non­fic­tion
The Passover Hag­gadah: A Biography
Vanes­sa L. Ochs
Jew­ish Text
The Koren Youth Haggadah
Developed by Dr. Daniel Rose; illustrations by Rinat Giboa
Jew­ish Text
The Passover Hag­gadah: An Ancient Sto­ry for Mod­ern Times
Tablet Magazine, Shai Azoulay (illus.)
Jew­ish Text
The Essen­tial Seder: A Con­tem­po­rary Haggadah
Deb­o­rah Gross-Zuchman
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
Fic­tion
The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo
Michael David Lukas
Non­fic­tion
Com­ing of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Ado­les­cence, Jew­ish Law, and Ordi­nary Culture
Eve Krakowski
Non­fic­tion
The Sovi­et-Israeli War, 1967 – 1973: The USSR’s Mil­i­tary Inter­ven­tion in the Egypt­ian-Israeli Conflict
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Chil­dren’s
The Hur­ry-Up Exit from Egypt
Gary Bower; Barbara Chotiner, illus.

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