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Nonfiction The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe Shmuel Feiner; Chaya Naor, trans.
Nonfiction Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
Visual Arts Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir Vincent Brook
Nonfiction Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
Nonfiction We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945 – 1962 Hasia R. Diner
Nonfiction Fromms: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis Götz Aly and Michael Sontheimer; Shelley Frisch, trans.
Nonfiction Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area Fred Rosenbaum