Caspian Rain, by Gina B. Nahai   In this, Nihai's fourth novel, a decade before the Islamic Revolution, Iran is a country at the brink of explosion. Twelve-year-old Yaas is born into an already divided family: Her father is the son of wealthy Iranian Jews who are integrated into the country’s upper-class, mostly Muslim, elite; her mother was raised in the slums of South Tehran, one street away from the old Jewish ghetto.

The Heart Is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale, by Tamar Alexander-Frizer  An comprehensive scholarly investigation of Sephardic folktales from the Expulsion from Spain down through the ages.

Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History, by Aviva Ben-Ur  A work that seeks to correct the glaring absence of Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews in most portrayals of American Jewry.