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Nonfiction The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City Since 1967 Hillel Cohen
Nonfiction From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture Matthew Hoffman
Nonfiction Thugs: How History’s Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny and Mass Murder Micah D. Halpern
Essay Historical Figure Fixation Lavie Tidhar’s most recent novel is Osama (PS Publishing). He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.I might be obsessed with… Lavie Tidhar December 12, 2011
Nonfiction Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe Robert S. Wistrich
Nonfiction Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary From the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times Shai Cherry
Nonfiction 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East Tom Segev; Jessica Cohen, trans.
Nonfiction A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.
