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Nonfiction My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation Joanie Holzer Schirm
Jewish Text Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic Eric Lawee
Nonfiction The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust Mark L. Smith
Nonfiction The Pope’s Jews: The Vatican’s Secret Plan to Save the Jews from the Nazis Gordon Thomas
Nonfiction Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe’s Darkest Hour Simon Kuper
Nonfiction The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70 – 1492 Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Nonfiction Isaac’s Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland Matthew Brzezinski
Nonfiction Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way Harry Brod
Nonfiction In the Lion’s Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War Fariborz Mokhtari
Nonfiction Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life Laura Arnold Leibman