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Nonfiction
The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
Jacob Daniels
Nonfiction
The Jew­ish South: An Amer­i­can History
Shari Rabin
Poetry
Laugh­ing in Yiddish
Jamie Wendt
Nonfiction
Melt­ing Point: Fam­i­ly, Mem­o­ry, and the Search for a Promised Land
Rachel Cock­erell
Nonfiction
Life Must Go On: The Remark­able Sto­ry of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghet­to, and the Trag­ic Fate of Lithua­ni­a’s Jews
Bea Lurie
Nonfiction
Amer­i­can Mac­cabee: Theodore Roo­sevelt and the Jews
Andrew Por­wanch­er
Visual Arts
The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Michele L. Fred­er­ick | Abi­gail Rapoport
Visual Arts
The His­to­ry of Jerusalem: An Illus­trat­ed Sto­ry of 4,000 Years
Vin­cent Lemire ; Christophe Gaulti­er , illus.
Children's
The Keep­er of Stories
Car­o­line Kusin Pritchard ; Seli­na Alko , illus.
Nonfiction
Prof­its and Per­se­cu­tion: Ger­man Big Busi­ness in the Nazi Econ­o­my and the Holocaust
Peter Hayes
Nonfiction
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
Nir Ariel­li
Nonfiction
All Con­sum­ing: Ger­mans, Jews, and the Mean­ing of Meat
John M. Efron
Nonfiction
Promised Lands: Hadas­sah Kaplan and the Lega­cy of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
Sharon Ann Musher
Nonfiction
Still Lives: Jew­ish Pho­tog­ra­phy in Nazi Germany
Ofer Ashke­nazi | Rebek­ka Gross­mann | Shi­ra Miron | Sarah Wobick-Segev
Nonfiction
The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Sto­ry of Ship­wreck, Sur­vival, and Scan­dal in Vic­to­ri­an Africa
Adam Rovn­er
Nonfiction
Holo­caust: Ger­man His­to­ry and Our Half-Jew­ish Family
Thomas Paul Bernstein
Children's
Ellis Island Passover
Maris­sa Moss
Nonfiction
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Mas­sacre in Pales­tine that Ignit­ed the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Yarde­na Schwartz
Nonfiction
Your Roots Cast a Shad­ow: One Fam­i­ly’s Search Across His­to­ry for Belonging
Car­o­line Topperman
Children's
A Mitz­vah for George Washington
Rachelle Burk ; Chiara Fedele , illus.
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