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Essay Culture of Fragrance: Jewish Perfumers in the Twentieth Century Timothy Schaffert July 26, 2021
Nonfiction Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945 – 1989 Tina Frühauf
Children’s Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty Claudia Friddell, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)
Nonfiction Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village Mimi Schwartz
Nonfiction German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighborhood in the Holy City Thomas Sparr, Stephen Brown (Translator)
Nonfiction Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
Nonfiction Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis Jeffrey H. Jackson
Fiction The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family Joshua Cohen