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Nonfiction The Frankfurt Judengasse: Jewish Life in an Early Modern German City Fritz Backhaus, Gisela Engel, Robert Liberles and Margarete Schlüter, eds.
Nonfiction Bratislava Pressburg Pozsony: Jewish Secular Endeavors, 1867 – 1938 A. Robert Neurath
Nonfiction Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis Aharon Shemesh
Nonfiction Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 – 1967 Hillel Cohen; Haim Watzman, trans.
Nonfiction They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany Patrick K. O’Donnell
Nonfiction Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000 – 1250 David Malkiel
Nonfiction Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Nonfiction Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, eds.
Nonfiction Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States Ari Y. Kelman