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Nonfiction
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
Fiction
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Nonfiction
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Nonfiction
The Jewish Body: A History
Children's
The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art
Nonfiction
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
Fiction
Letters to Camondo
Nonfiction
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
Nonfiction
Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation
Children's
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi
Nonfiction
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
Nonfiction
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City
Nonfiction
The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution
Nonfiction
Shalom Uganda: A Jewish Community On the Equator
Nonfiction
Fruits of Freedom: The Torah Flora Hagadah
Nonfiction
The Hitler Haggadah: A Moroccan Jew’s Wartime Retelling of the Passover Story
Nonfiction
The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust
Nonfiction
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Fiction
The Boy and the Lake
Nonfiction
American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief