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Nonfiction In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson
Nonfiction Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice Fred Burton and John Bruning
Nonfiction On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists and the Narrow Gauge Railroad From Jaffa to Jerusalem Anthony S. Travis
Nonfiction God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars Benjamin Lazier
Nonfiction Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance Michael Goldfarb
Nonfiction Inventing the Jew: Antisemetic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures Andrei Oisteanu; Mirela Adascalitei, trans.; Moshe Idel, fwd.
Nonfiction The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage Mark Klempner; Christopher R. Browning, fwd.
Nonfiction Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands Robert Satloff
Nonfiction Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today Ari L. Goldman
Nonfiction Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, The Story of a Nation Marina Benjamin