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Interview ‘Exiled in Paradise’: A Conversation between Alexis Landau and Donna Rifkind Alexis Landau, Donna Rifkind July 21, 2021
Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Statue of Liberty Claudia Friddell, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)
Children’s Escape From Belgium: A Father and Son’s Story of Survival Esther Heller and Renee Worch
Children’s Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
Nonfiction German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighborhood in the Holy City Thomas Sparr, Stephen Brown (Translator)
Fiction The Girl From Over There: The Hopeful Story of a Young Jewish Immigrant Sharon Rechter, Karla Gerard (Illustrator)
Essay A Return to the Source: On Translating Tobie Nathan’s ‘A Land Like You’ Joyce Zonana June 14, 2021
Nonfiction Doctor on Call: Chernobyl Responder, Jewish Refugee, Radiation Expert Alla Shapiro
