Books

JIMENA Staff’s Suggested Books in Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies

Children’s Books
A Boy from Baghdad
by Miriam Halahmy
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Children’s Books
A Cage Without Bars
by Anne Dublin
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Children’s Books
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells
by Gail Carson Levine
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Sephardic History
A History of the Jews in Christian Spain
by Yitzhak Baer
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Sephardic History
A History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam
by Gordon Darnell Newby
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Sephardic History
A Hug From Afar: One family’s dramatic journey through three continents to escape the Holocaust
by Claire Barkey Flash
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Sephardic History
A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza
by S.D. Goitein
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Children’s Books
A Persian Passover
by Etan Basseri
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Children’s Books
A Persian Princess
by Barbara Diamond Goldin (Author), Steliyana Doneva (Illustrator)
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Sephardic History
A political and economic history of the Jews of Afghanistan
by Sara Koplik
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Sephardic Rabbinic Literature
A Sephardic Passover Haggadah: With Translation and Commentary
by Marc D. Angel
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Children’s Books
A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night
by Allison Ofanansky (Author), Rotem Teplow (Illustrator)
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