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Fiction
Sha­la­ma: My 96 Sea­sons in China
Jean Hoff­mann Lewanda
Nonfiction
Stand­ing on the Crack: The Lega­cy of Five Jew­ish Fam­i­lies from Seat­tle’s Gild­ed Age
Karen Treiger
Nonfiction
While Israel Slept: How Hamas Sur­prised the Most Pow­er­ful Mil­i­tary in the Mid­dle East
Yaakov Katz
Nonfiction
No Road Lead­ing Back: An Improb­a­ble Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tan­gled Way We Tell the Sto­ry of the Holocaust
Chris Heath
Nonfiction
Two Wheels to Free­dom: The Sto­ry of a Young Jew, Wartime Resis­tance, and a Dar­ing Escape
Arthur J. Magida
Nonfiction
Occu­pied Words: What the Holo­caust Did to Yiddish
Han­nah Pollin-Galay
Nonfiction
Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
Piotr Smo­lar ; Antho­ny Roberts , trans.
Nonfiction
A Promised Land: Jew­ish Patri­ots, the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion, and the Birth of Reli­gious Freedom
Adam Jort­ner
Nonfiction
Death Trip: A Post-Holo­caust Psy­che­del­ic Memoir
Seth Lor­inczi
Nonfiction
(In)Sights: Peace­mak­ing in the Oslo Process Thir­ty Years and Counting
Gidi (Gideon) Grin­stein and Ari Afilalo
Nonfiction
Between the Bridge and the Bar­ri­cade: Jew­ish Trans­la­tion in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
Iris Idel­son-Shein
Nonfiction
Final Ver­dict: The Holo­caust on Tri­al in the 21st Century
Tobias Buck
Nonfiction
How the West Became Anti­se­mit­ic: Jews and the For­ma­tion of Europe, 800‑1500
Ivan G. Marcus
Nonfiction
Why the Bible Began: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of Scrip­ture and its Origins
Jacob L. Wright
Nonfiction
Just City: Grow­ing Up on the Upper West Side When Hous­ing Was a Human Right
Jen­nifer Baum
Nonfiction
Insep­a­ra­ble: A Holo­caust Sur­vival Story
Faris Cas­sell
Nonfiction
Open­ing Doors: The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
Hasia R. Diner
Nonfiction
The Incor­rupt­ibles: A True Sto­ry of King­pins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the Amer­i­can Underworld
Dan Slater
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Per­fect Match: The Sto­ry of Althea Gib­son and Angela Buxton
Lori Dub­bin ; Aman­da Quartey , illus.
Nonfiction
Shy­lock­’s Venice: The Remark­able His­to­ry of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
Har­ry Freedman
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