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Nonfiction

Women from the Ankle Down: The Sto­ry of Shoes and How They Define Us

Rachelle Berg­stein

Visual Arts

Jew­ish Art: A Mod­ern History

Saman­tha Baskind and Lar­ry Silver

Nonfiction

Philip Roth and the Jews

Alan Coop­er

Nonfiction

Promis­cu­ous: Portnoy’s Com­plaint and Our Doomed Pur­suit of Happiness

Bernard Avishai

Visual Arts

Jew­ish Moth­ers: Strength, Wis­dom, Compassion

Lloyd Wolf and Paula Wolf­son; Anne Roiphe, fwd.

Nonfiction

Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant

Dyan Can­non

Nonfiction

The Lady in Gold: The Extra­or­di­nary Tale of Gus­tav Klimt’s Mas­ter­piece, Por­trait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Anne-Marie O’Connor

Nonfiction

Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

Melis­sa Müller and Rein­hard Piechoc­ki; Alice Herz-Som­mer, fwd.

Nonfiction

A Cen­tu­ry of Wis­dom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Som­mer, the World’s Old­est Liv­ing Holo­caust Survivor

Car­o­line Stoessinger

Nonfiction

We Killed: The Rise of Women in Amer­i­can Comedy

Yael Kohen

Nonfiction

Fun­ny: The Book: Every­thing You Always Want­ed To Know About Comedy

David Misch

Nonfiction

Jew­ish Writ­ing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Mark Krup­nick; Jean K. Car­ney; Mark Shech­n­er , eds.

Nonfiction

You Nev­er Call! You Nev­er Write!: A His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Mother

Joyce Antler

Nonfiction

The Hee­bie Jee­bies at CBGB: A Secret His­to­ry of Jew­ish Punk

Steven Lee Beeber

Nonfiction

Trin­i­ty of Pas­sion: The Lit­er­ary Left and the Antifas­cist Crusade

Alan M. Wald

Fiction

Will Eis­ner’s New York: Life in the Big City

Will Eis­ner

Nonfiction

My Grand­par­ents, My Par­ents and I: Jew­ish Art and Culture

Edward van Voolen

Nonfiction

Lover of Unrea­son: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hugh­es’ Doomed Love

Yehu­da Koren; Eilat Negev

Nonfiction

In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Pop­u­lar Culture

Ted Mer­win

Visual Arts

Eva Hesse: Sculpture

Elis­a­beth Suss­man et al.