Book Reviews

Looking Back With Albert Memmi

How Memmi’s 1953 novel La Statue de sel reframes the struggle to preserve Jewish memory in the Maghreb.

Dec 30, 2025

How Do You Mourn a Language You Never Really Spoke?

Samantha Ellis’s new memoir wrestles with the fragile inheritance of Judeo-Arabic and Iraqi Jewish culture.

Dec 30, 2025 • Maia Zelkha

Out of Egypt, but Never Far

André Aciman’s vivid memoir of his last days of Jewish Alexandria, painted through memories.

Dec 30, 2025

Tracing a Family Tree Across a Shattered Sephardic World

Victor Perera traces the scattered roots of his Sephardic family tree in his deeply personal memoir.

Dec 30, 2025

Rediscovering Yemenite Heritage, Love, and Loss in Ayelet Tsabari’s New Novel

How music, memory, and a mother’s voice pull a daughter back to what she tried to leave behind.

Dec 30, 2025

“Sara’s Homeland” and The Duality of Kurdish-Jewish Identity

By Peshraw Mohammed.

Dec 30, 2025

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