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Nonfiction The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City Sam Roberts
Fiction A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
Nonfiction A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
Essay How Polly Adler, the Jewish Jezebel of the Jazz Age, Became a Topsy-Turvy American Success Story Debby Applegate November 22, 2021
Children’s The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America Norman H. Finkelstein
Essay ‘Hide the Jew’: Hollywood, Assimilation, and the Mankiewicz Brothers Nick Davis October 11, 2021
Essay My First Sequel: The Love Story of ‘An Unorthodox Match’ Continued Naomi Ragen September 6, 2021