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Nonfiction Standing on the Crack: The Legacy of Five Jewish Families from Seattle’s Gilded Age Karen Treiger
Nonfiction My Mother’s War: A Holocaust Survivor’s Tribute to an Extraordinary Woman Michael Fryd
Nonfiction Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
Nonfiction A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom Adam Jortner
Nonfiction Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America Hasia R. Diner
Children’s Amazing Abe: How Abraham Cahan’s Newspaper Gave a Voice to Jewish Immigrants Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.