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Nonfiction Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage Catherine Ehrlich
Essay A Brief History of Balkan Jews and the Story of the Synagogue of Zagreb Michele Levy August 3, 2020
Nonfiction The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China Jonathan Kaufman
Nonfiction And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain Elisabeth Asbrink, Saskia Vogel (trans.)
Nonfiction Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry Sam Sokol
Nonfiction Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Adam Teller
Nonfiction Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora Devi Mays
Nonfiction Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe Laurel Leff
From the Journal The Refugee in Fiction: A Conversation with Jenny Erpenbeck and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Becca Kantor November 18, 2019