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Essay Listening to the Silence: Uncovering the Lives of Jewish Female Resistance Workers Elizabeth R. Hyman October 6, 2025
Nonfiction Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement Judith L. Pearson
Nonfiction The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today Susanne Paola Antonetta
Nonfiction Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia Edward Berenson
Nonfiction While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East Yaakov Katz Amir Bohbot
Nonfiction The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II Adam LeBor
Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7 Magical Thinking and My Grandfather’s Story Amanda J. Rothschild August 4, 2025
Nonfiction A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII Tim Brady
Visual Arts 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Stefanie Halpern
