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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Nonfiction Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Iris Idelson-Shein
Nonfiction The Way of Humanity According to Chasidic Teaching Martin Buber; Bernard H. Mehlman and Gabriel E. Padawer, trans.
Children’s The Hedgehog Who Said Who Cares? Neri Aluma; Amit Trainin, illus.; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
Jewish Text The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation Moses Maimonides; Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman, trans.
Nonfiction Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni; Paul Olchváry, trans.
Recommended Reading Ten Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 4, 2024
Nonfiction Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes; Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, trans.