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Cover of The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

Cover of The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I

The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I

Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.

Cover of A Turkish Rosh Hashanah

A Turkish Rosh Hashanah

Etan Basseri; Zeynep Özatalay, illus.

Cover of Across So Many Seas

Across So Many Seas

Cover of A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean

Leïla Sebbar, cur.; Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds.; Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson, trans.

Cover of Serenade for Nadia

Serenade for Nadia

Zülfü Livaneli, Brendan Freely (trans.)  

Cover of The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History

The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History

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