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Nonfiction Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews Bea Lurie
Nonfiction Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land Rachel Cockerell
Essay Correcting the Injustice of Forgetting: The Black Angelenos of Sugar Hill Kyra Davis Lurie June 9, 2025
Essay ‘Radicle’ Entanglements: Recovering Jewish Women’s Folk Healing Knowledge Deatra Cohen June 2, 2025
Visual Arts The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years Vincent Lemire; Christophe Gaultier, illus.
Essay Uncovering Buried History: A Detention Center on the Outskirts of Alberobello Mary Morris May 12, 2025
Nonfiction Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust Peter Hayes
Nonfiction Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher
Essay The Blue Butterfly of Cochin: A Journey of Discovery and Connection Ariana Mizrahi April 14, 2025
Nonfiction Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany Ofer Ashkenazi Rebekka Grossmann Shira Miron Sarah Wobick-Segev