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Visual Arts They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust Mayer Kirshenblatt; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Nonfiction The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, trans.
Children’s Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass: Igniting the Nazi War Against Jews Stephanie Fitzgerald
Nonfiction The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbollah and The Iranian War Against Israel Michael J. Totten
Nonfiction Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust David Engel and Eva Fogelman; Yitzchak Mais, ed.
Nonfiction Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam David G. Dalin; John F. Rothman
Nonfiction Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews From Nazis Suzanne Vromen
Nonfiction Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Samuel D. Kassow