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Nonfiction Haggadah for the Fifth Child: A Festive Discussion on the Exodus and History Donald B. Susswein
Nonfiction Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land, A Perilous Journey that Shaped Israel’s Fate Gordon Thomas
Nonfiction A Child Al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini’s Italy Eric Lamet
Nonfiction The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 – 1945, Volume 1 Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed.
Nonfiction Nitzotz: The Spark of Resistance of Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp Laura Weinrib, ed. and intro; Estee Weinrib, trans.
Nonfiction Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
Nonfiction Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe Shachar M. Pinsker
Nonfiction The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe Shmuel Feiner; Chaya Naor, trans.
Visual Arts Driven to Darkness: Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir Vincent Brook