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Essay Doppelgänger: Or Aya and Me Ayelet Tsabari writes a “strange, unexpected postscript” to her essay “A Simple Girl,” excerpted in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade. Ayelet Tsabari May 14, 2019
Nonfiction The Woman Who Fought An Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring Gregory Joseph Wallance
Nonfiction Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire Raphael D. Marcus
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century James Loeffler Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
Fiction Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem, ed; Avi Katz, illus.