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Nonfiction Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome Fredric Brandfon
Nonfiction The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty Natalie Livingstone
Nonfiction Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe Alan Verskin
Essay Jews of the Spanish Homeland: Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film Elizabeth Graver April 10, 2023
Nonfiction Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms Seth Stern
Nonfiction Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams? Daniel Gordis
Children’s Rose Spoke Out: The Story of Rose Schneiderman Emma Carlson Berne; Giovanni Abeille, illus.
Nonfiction The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean Jessica M. Marglin
Nonfiction The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It Nina Siegal
Recommended Reading Nine Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 13, 2023
