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Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos Judy Batalion
Essay ‘A Most Unlikely Secret Agent’: The Story of Noor Inayat Khan Arthur J. Magida March 15, 2021
Children’s Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of Helaine Becker, Kari Rust (illus.)
Nonfiction From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff
Nonfiction The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help Faris Cassell
Fiction Doña Gracia’s Secret: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Jewish Woman in the Renaissance Marilyn Froggatt
Children’s Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Super Star Catherine Reef
Children’s The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman Kathy Stinson, Marie Lafrance (illus.)
Nonfiction The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia Rachel Manekin
Essay—From the Journal Trina Schart Hyman: Remembering the Iconic Illustrator of “Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins” Eric A. Kimmel November 30, 2020
