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"Kantika" by Elizabeth Graver is the next One Bay One Book pick. (Screenshot/YouTube)
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Jewish library picks ‘Kantika,’ novel about Sephardic immigrants, for annual book group

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 7, 2023January 26, 2024

As a college student in the mid-1980s, Elizabeth Graver interviewed her grandmother about her colorful life. Rebecca Levy was born around 1903 into a wealthy Sephardic family in Constantinople (now […]

Omer Friedlander is the author of the short story collection "The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land." (Photo/Yam Traiber)
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Debut short-story collection by young Israeli writer is One Bay One Book choice 

by Sue Fishkoff August 25, 2022November 7, 2022
Helene Wecker is the author "The Hidden Place," the 2021-2022 choice for the One Bay One Book program.
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One Bay One Book pick ‘The Hidden Palace’ explores assimilation through fantasy

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten December 8, 2021December 8, 2021
Anna Solomon is the author of this year's One Bay One Book pick, "The Book of V."
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What became of Queen Vashti? One Bay One Book program tackles ‘The Book of V.’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 19, 2020October 26, 2020
From the cover of "On Division" by Goldie Goldbloom
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This year’s One Bay One Book pick is novel by Australian Hasidic author

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 6, 2019September 6, 2019
From the cover of "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
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Philip Roth’s prescient ‘Plot Against America’ is focus of event series

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 19, 2019March 20, 2019
From the cover of "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
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Reading ‘The Plot Against America’ across the Bay

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 23, 2018
From the cover of "The Septembers of Shiraz" by Dalia Sofer
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One Bay One Book returns with Iranian Jewish tale ‘Septembers of Shiraz’

by J. Staff October 25, 2017October 24, 2017

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