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Nonfiction The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France Ethan B. Katz
Excerpt “If you think Cairo’s any better, my dear, you’re mistaken.” Yitzhak Gormezano Goren August 12, 2015
Interview Interview: George Lerner by Beth KissileffAs a television producer across the globe for CNN, PBS, and other media outlets, George Lerner has to keep to thirty frames per second (the… Beth Kissileff March 31, 2015
Essay My Name is Yusha Josh Weil, author of the recently published The Great Glass Sea, is blogging here today for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.Any run-in with… Josh Weil July 8, 2014
Nonfiction Jews Under Moroccan Skies: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life Raphael David Elmaleh and George Ricketts
Nonfiction From Couscous to Kasha: Reporting From the Field of Jewish Community Work Seymour Epstein
Nonfiction The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado