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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
Essay A Return to the Source: On Translating Tobie Nathan’s ‘A Land Like You’ Joyce Zonana June 14, 2021
Children’s The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)
Nonfiction Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection Sam Apple