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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.
Nonfiction Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider
Nonfiction Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad, ed.
Nonfiction The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing A Villa During the Nuremberg Trials Christiane Kohl; Anthea Bell, trans.
Nonfiction The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans.
Nonfiction The Other Schindlers: Why Some People Chose To Save The Jews In The Holocaust Agnes Grunwald-Spier; Sir Martin Gilberg, fwd.
Nonfiction The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desparate Closing Months of World War II Alex Kershaw