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Visual Arts Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir Vincent Brook
Nonfiction Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
Nonfiction Fromms: How Julius Fromm’s Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis Götz Aly and Michael Sontheimer; Shelley Frisch, trans.
Nonfiction Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area Fred Rosenbaum
Nonfiction 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement Jane Ziegelman
Nonfiction Yiddish Literature in America: 1870 – 2000 Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
Children’s Kings and Carpenters: One Hundred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Planned Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.