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Nonfiction The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany Gwen Strauss
Essay—From the Journal Taking the Road: Jewish Women’s Travel Writing Emily Burack August 19, 2020
Essay The Impossible Life of Beate Sirota Gordon Beate at Mills College, 1942 Jeff Gottesfeld June 17, 2020
Children’s No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
Essay Frequency Hopping: The Jewish Identity of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books Emily Schneider May 25, 2020
Nonfiction Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag Monika Zgustova; Julie Jones, trans.