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Nonfiction When Courage Prevailed: The Rescue and Survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia 1941 – 1945 Esther Gitman
Nonfiction Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Elisheva Carlebach
Children’s The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
Nonfiction Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education in North America, 1910 – 1960 Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
Nonfiction Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis, Suez and the Brink of War David A. Nichols
Nonfiction Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Avinoam J. Patt
Nonfiction Beyond the Façade: A Synagogue, A Restoration, A Legacy Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
Nonfiction Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis Edward Goldberg
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
