Items with the tag: iraq | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture

Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture

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Preserving Our Stories: Nine Books About Iraqi Jews

Samantha Ellis

January 5, 2026

Cover of This Is Not a Cholent

This Is Not a Cholent

Sarah Sassoon; Viviana Garofoli, illus.

Cover of Just Say Welcome

Just Say Welcome

Cover of A Boy from Baghdad

A Boy from Baghdad

Cover of The Eucalyptus Cookbook

The Eucalyptus Cookbook

Cover of Blood of the Virgin

Blood of the Virgin

Essay

My Iraqi Jewish Grandmother’s Hands

Sarah Sassoon

March 30, 2023

Cover of Shoham's Bangle

Shoham’s Bangle

Cover of Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands

Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands

Richard Stursberg

Cover of Cover Me With My Izar

Cover Me With My Izar

Nora Houri-Haim

Essay

‘A Landscape of Ghost Towns’: Genocide in Iraq

Seth J. Frantzman

November 4, 2019

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Book Cover of the Week: Tomorrow There Will be Apricots

Posted by Chava LanskyIn Tomorrow There Will be Apricots Jessica Soffer tells the story of two women adrift in New York City: one an almost orphan and the second…

Chava Lansky

July 1, 2014

Cover of Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front

Valor: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front

Mark Lee Greenblatt

Essay

Is History a Prison or a Home?

Earlier this week, Joshua Fattal wrote about remembering Hebrew School while a prisoner in Iran and being a Jew celebrating Christmas in Iranian prison. He…

Joshua Fattal

March 21, 2014

Cover of New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq