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Nonfiction Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust — Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour James A. Grymes
Essay How Far Would You Go For Your Passion? Lisa Barr is the author of the award-winning debut novel, Fugitive Colors (Arcade), a suspenseful tale of an artist’s revenge on the “eve” of WWII. Today, she chimes… Lisa Barr March 27, 2014
Nonfiction A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen Liel Leibovitz
Nonfiction Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Boris Kachka
Visual Arts Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work Justin G. Schiller, Dennis M.V. David, Leonard S. Marcus; Maurice Sendak, illus.
Nonfiction Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg, eds.
Nonfiction Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song Maureen Jackson
Visual Arts Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture Joseph M. Siry
