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Nonfiction The Woman Who Fought An Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring Gregory Joseph Wallance
Nonfiction Lawyers Without Rights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933 Simone Ladwig-Winters Edited by Bill Choyke
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore Eric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner
Nonfiction The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis Richard Schwartz
Essay In World War II-Era North Carolina, A Haven for German Jewish Artists and Academics Charles Darwent November 6, 2018
Nonfiction Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer Margalit Fox
Essay Fictionalizing Am Olam, The Little-Known Movement of Midwestern Jewish Farmers Rosellen Brown October 22, 2018
Nonfiction Modern Conservative Judaism: Evolving Thought and Practice Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, fwd.
Nonfiction Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century James Loeffler Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets Patrick Desbois
Nonfiction Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War Micah Goodman; Eylon Levy, trans.
Nonfiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Michael W. Twitty