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Items with the tag:

grandparents

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Fic­tion
All-Night Phar­ma­cy
Ruth Madievsky
Essay

Invent­ing Zacharias: Writ­ing Mizrahi Stories

Jas­min Attia
July 10, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Amer­i­can Born: An Immi­grant’s Sto­ry, a Daugh­ter’s Memoir
Rachel M. Brownstein
Interview—From the Journal

The Lan­guages of Belong­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ruth Behar and Mar­jorie Agosín 

Ruth Behar, Mar­jorie Agosín
June 19, 2023
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Chil­dren’s
How to Get to Sav­ta’s for Shabbat
Var­da Livney
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Non­fic­tion
The In-Betweens: A Lyri­cal Memoir
Davon Loeb
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Chil­dren’s
Ella KVELLe­phant and the Search for Bubbe’s Yid­dish Treasure
Jen Kost­man
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Chil­dren’s
The Blue Glass Heart
Yona Zeldis McDonough; Chiara Fedele, illus.
Essay

My Iraqi Jew­ish Grandmother’s Hands

Sarah Sas­soon
March 30, 2023
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Fic­tion
The Woman Beyond the Sea
Sarit Yishai-Levi; Gilah Kahn-Hoffman, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
The Absent Moon: A Mem­oir of a Short Child­hood and a Long Depression
Luiz Schwarcz; Eric M. B. Becker, trans.
Essay

The Blue Book: Rean­i­mat­ing Jew­ish New Orleans Through Fiction

Kit­ty Zeldis
February 20, 2023
Fiction—From the Journal

The Vir­gin Grandmother

Kate Schmi­er
February 15, 2023
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How I Learned to Embrace my Black and Jew­ish Heritage

Davon Loeb
January 24, 2023
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Bub­bie & Rivka’s Best-Ever Chal­lah (So Far!)
Sarah Lynne Reul
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