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Nonfiction Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Elisheva Carlebach
Children’s The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
Nonfiction This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin
Nonfiction When Courage Prevailed: The Rescue and Survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia 1941 – 1945 Esther Gitman
Nonfiction A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup
Nonfiction The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910 – 1965 Carol K. Ingall, ed.