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Children’s Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus.
Nonfiction Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible Sara Lippmann Seth Rogoff
Children’s Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug Sarah Aronson; Andrea D'Aquino, illus.
Children’s Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women Julie Silverstein Tami Schlossberg Pruwer
Children’s More than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving Richard Michelson; Joe Cepeda, illus.
Nonfiction The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century Dagmar Herzog
Visual Arts Jewish Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders Dana Rubin
Nonfiction Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
Nonfiction The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism Adrianne Black
Nonfiction Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth Asaf Elia-Shalev
Nonfiction Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole Julia Watts Belser
