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Recommended Reading 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
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
Nonfiction My Mother’s Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi Elana Benjamin
Nonfiction Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad Naim Kattan; Sheila Fischman, trans.
Nonfiction Iraq’s Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Modern Babylon Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
Nonfiction Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel Nissim Rejwan University of Texas Press
Nonfiction Memories of Eden: A Journey Through Jewish Baghdad Violette Shamash; Mira and Tony Roca, eds.
Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
