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Nonfiction The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People Walter Russell Mead
Nonfiction Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Meryl Frank
Nonfiction Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps Makana Eyre
Nonfiction Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome Fredric Brandfon
Nonfiction The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty Natalie Livingstone
Nonfiction Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Alan Verskin
Essay Jews of the Spanish Homeland: Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film Elizabeth Graver April 10, 2023
Nonfiction Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms Seth Stern
Nonfiction Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams? Daniel Gordis
Children’s Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman Emma Carlson Berne; Giovanni Abeille, illus.
Nonfiction The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean Jessica M. Marglin
Nonfiction The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It Nina Siegal