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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
Nonfiction Modern Conservative Judaism: Evolving Thought and Practice Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, fwd.
Essay Fictionalizing Am Olam, The Little-Known Movement of Midwestern Jewish Farmers Rosellen Brown October 22, 2018
Nonfiction Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century James Loeffler Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War Micah Goodman; Eylon Levy, trans.
Nonfiction In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets Patrick Desbois
Nonfiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Michael W. Twitty
Nonfiction The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice Dana E. Katz
Nonfiction Global Jewish Foodways: A History Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto, ed.; Carlo Petrini, foreword
Nonfiction Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations Ronen Bergman
