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    Cover of Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
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    Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
    Devi Mays
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    The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Mod­ern History
    Dina Danon
    Cover of The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture
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    The Con­ver­so’s Return: Con­ver­sion and Sephar­di His­to­ry in Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­ture and Culture
    Dalia Kandiyoti
    Cover of Her Story, My Story? Writing About Women and the Holocaust
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    Her Sto­ry, My Sto­ry? Writ­ing About Women and the Holocaust
    Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
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    Seder
    Adam Kammerling
    Cover of What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation
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    What We Will Become: A Moth­er, a Son, and a Jour­ney of Transformation
    Mimi Lemay
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    Poet­ry
    Nau­tilus and Bone
    Lisa Richter
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    ‘A Land­scape of Ghost Towns’: Geno­cide in Iraq

    Seth J. Frantzman
    November 4, 2019
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    All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir
    Mary Mor­ris
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    The Orchard
    David Hopen
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    One of Us: Stories
    Scott Nadel­son
    Cover of Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
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    Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Fam­i­ly Mem­oir of a Trans­gen­der Journey
    Jo Ivester
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    Riv­er
    Shi­ra Nayman
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    The Mem­o­ry Eaters
    Eliz­a­beth Kadetsky
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    Home is a Stranger
    Par­naz Foroutan
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    Me, My Self­ie & Eye: A Midlife Con­ver­sa­tion About Lost Iden­ti­ty, Grief, and See­ing Who You Are
    Jan­na Lopez
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