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Nonfiction After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921 – 1965 Libby Garland
Nonfiction The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus, 1625 – 2000 Albert Kaganovitch
Nonfiction The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History David N. Myers & Alexander Kaye, eds.
Nonfiction We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History Gary Philip Zola
Nonfiction Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
Nonfiction Western Jews in India: From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Kenneth X. Robbins & Marvin Tokayer, eds.
Nonfiction The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews Bernard Wasserstein
Nonfiction Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust Götz Aly; Jefferson Chase, trans.
Essay A Historical Look at Jews in the Work of Shakespeare Lois Leveen is the author of Juliet’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bowser. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe… Lois Leveen October 1, 2014
Nonfiction A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination From Persecution to Genocide Alon Confino
Nonfiction Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis Robert Weinberg
Nonfiction Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
