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Fiction

Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed: A Novel

Ayelet Tsabari

Children's

A Boy from Baghdad

Miri­am Halahmy

Nonfiction

Israel’s Black Pan­thers: The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth

Asaf Elia-Shalev

Fiction

The Brides­man

Savy­on Liebrecht ; Gilah Kahn-Hoff­man , trans.

Fiction

Just a Hat

S. Khu­biar

Nonfiction

Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt

Oded Zinger

Nonfiction

A Jew­ish Child­hood in the Mus­lim Mediterranean

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

Children's

Shoham’s Ban­gle

Sarah Sas­soon

Nonfiction

I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio

Minou Mich­lin

Children's

Osnat and Her Dove: The True Sto­ry of the World’s First Female Rabbi

Sigal Samuel ; Vali Mintzi, illus.

Nonfiction

Con­cealed: Mem­oir of a Jew­ish-Iran­ian Daugh­ter Caught Between the Chador and America

Esther Ami­ni

Fiction

And the Bride Closed the Door

Ronit Mat­alon ; Jes­si­ca Cohen , trans.

Nonfiction

The Art of Leav­ing: A Memoir

Ayelet Tsabari

Cookbook

Bone Soup and Flipped Bread: The Yemenite Jew­ish Kitchen

Sue Sper­tus Larkey

Nonfiction

Maman

Moris K. Niknam

Fiction

Isles of the Blind

Robert Rosen­berg

Nonfiction

Leav­ing Iran: Between Migra­tion and Exile

Farideh Goldin

Nonfiction

Jews and Islam­ic Law in Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Yemen

Mark S. Wagner

Nonfiction

Rab­bis, Sor­cer­ers, Kings, and Priests: The Cul­ture of the Tal­mud in Ancient Iran

Jason Sion Mokhtarian

Nonfiction

Tra­di­tion­al Soci­ety in Tran­si­tion: The Yemeni Jew­ish Experience

Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman