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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Nonfiction Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century Daniel Oppenheimer
Nonfiction Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, eds.
Children’s The Baseball Haggadah: A Festival of Freedom and Springtime in 15 Innings Sharon G. Forman; Lisa J. Teitelbaum, illus.
Nonfiction Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict John B. Judis
Nonfiction Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit Lila Corwin Berman
Nonfiction Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism Adam S. Ferziger
Nonfiction God’ll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi John Safran
Essay Dry Goods Merchant and Freedom Fighter: Samuel Fleishman of Marianna, FL Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bayou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mississippi town menaced… Sabra Waldfogel July 9, 2015