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Raphael Elmaleh and George Ricketts tell the story of 2,000 years of Jewish life in Morocco town by town, and they describe the dramatic Diaspora in recent decades.
Hidden Shabbat: the Secret Lives of Crypto-Jews
Isabelle Medina Sandoval writes historical fiction with information drawn from her own family as crypto-Jews in New Mexico.
A Hidden Light:
Stories and Teachings of Early HaBad and Bratzlav Hasidim
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi with Netanel Miles-Yepez tells the history of early Hasidism through stories about the Rebbes, giving definitions of values and spirituality. The line between midrash and history becomes invisible.
All Breathing Life Adores Your Name
by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and edited by Michael Kagan. Rabbi Lawrence Kushner has said that Reb Zalman’s ideas and stories have “profoundly altered the landscape of American Judaism.” And, it is in his tradition of originality that Reb Zalman has opened a door for us with these prayer/poems.
Princes, Popes and Pirates by Sandra K. Toro tells the life of Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos, and historical figure that inspired the figure of "The Jew of Malta" by Christopher Marlowe. He was the nephew of Dona Gracia Nasi and helped Sephardic Jews escape persecution in Europe.
Selected for New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival 2011
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