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Nonfiction
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist
Nonfiction
Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919 – 1939
Nonfiction
Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
Nonfiction
Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism
Nonfiction
Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II
Fiction
Detour Ahead
Nonfiction
The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir
Nonfiction
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
Nonfiction
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century
Cookbook
Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors
Nonfiction
Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism
Fiction
The Girl Who Counted Numbers
Fiction
Cover Me With My Izar
Nonfiction
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Nonfiction
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army
Nonfiction
It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II
Nonfiction
A “Jewish Marshall Plan” The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France
Nonfiction
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Nonfiction
The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth
Nonfiction
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center