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Nonfiction Pasta, Fried Rice and Matzoh Balls: Immigrant Cooking in America Loretta Frances Ichord; Jan Davey Ellis, illus.
Nonfiction A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom) By Her Bastard Son Clancy Sigal
Nonfiction The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World Joshua Prager
Nonfiction Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero Simcha Weinstein
Nonfiction Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities Reza Aslan and Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, eds.
Nonfiction Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940 – 1972 Edward K. Kaplan
Nonfiction Contesting Histories: German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust Michael Schuldiner
Nonfiction The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control Abraham H. Foxman
Nonfiction A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man’s Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance Zev Chafetz
Nonfiction At The Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side: 1880 – 1920 Lawrence J. Epstein
Nonfiction Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot Alan S. Katchen