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Excerpt Excerpt —When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing Lola Lafon, Lauren Elkin November 10, 2025
Nonfiction The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany―and the Spy Who Betrayed Them Jonathan Freedland
Essay Excerpt — Lost Synagogues of Europe: Paintings and Histories Andrea Strongwater November 3, 2025
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
