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Nonfiction Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis Edward Goldberg
Nonfiction Beyond the Façade: A Synagogue, A Restoration, A Legacy Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
Nonfiction In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson
Nonfiction Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice Fred Burton and John Bruning
Nonfiction On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists and the Narrow Gauge Railroad From Jaffa to Jerusalem Anthony S. Travis
Nonfiction Gretel’s Story: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
Nonfiction The Lemberg Mosaic: The Memoirs of Two Who Survived the Destruction of Jewish Galicia Jakob Weiss
Nonfiction The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910 – 1965 Carol K. Ingall, ed.
Nonfiction A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup