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Nonfiction Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Elisheva Carlebach
Children’s The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
Nonfiction Gretel’s Story: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
Nonfiction The Lemberg Mosaic: The Memoirs of Two Who Survived the Destruction of Jewish Galicia Jakob Weiss
Nonfiction A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness– and a Trove of Letters– Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression Ted Gup
Nonfiction The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910 – 1965 Carol K. Ingall, ed.