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    Chil­dren’s
    The Secret Recipe
    Ilan Stavans; Taia Morley, illus.
    Essay

    In the Com­pa­ny of Oth­ers: Dis­cussing Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life Through Theater

    Isa­iah Stavchansky
    July 7, 2025
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
    Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
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    ‘Lan­guage Is Always in Motion’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Han­nah Pollin-Galay

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    September 16, 2024
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    Poet­ry
    Noth­ing Is for Everyone
    Eden Pearl­stein
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    Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed: A Novel
    Ayelet Tsabari
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

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    Lesléa New­man
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    Occu­pied Words: What the Holo­caust Did to Yiddish
    Han­nah Pollin-Galay
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    The Blue But­ter­fly of Cochin
    Ariana Mizrahi; Siona Benjamin, illus.
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    A Book About Bubkes
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    Luis de Tor­res Sails to Freedom
    Tami Lehman-Wilzig; Oliver Averill, illus.
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    The Lan­guages of Belong­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ruth Behar and Mar­jorie Agosín 

    Ruth Behar, Mar­jorie Agosín
    June 19, 2023
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    Poet­ry, Exper­i­ments with Yid­dish, Grief, and New Facts: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ire­na Klepfisz

    Julie R. Enszer 
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    Hebrew Mat­ters: 110 Hebrew Roots; the Roads They Take; the Sto­ries They Tell
    Joseph Lowin
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    The Joy of Shmutz

    Feli­cia Berliner
    September 12, 2022
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    The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

    Ruth Behar
    June 13, 2022
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