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Children’s Nothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber Rona Arato; Isabel Muñoz, illus.
Nonfiction Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms Seth Stern
Recommended Reading Nine Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 13, 2023
Nonfiction Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West David Horgan
Essay The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writing a Sephardic Picture Book Ruth Behar June 13, 2022
Nonfiction The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust Rafael Medoff
Nonfiction Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa Susan Gilson Miller
Children’s The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America Norman H. Finkelstein
Nonfiction Womb Of Diamonds: A True Adventure From Child Bride Of Syria To Celebrity Businesswoman Of Japan Ezra Choueke