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Nonfiction Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World Mark R. Cohen
Nonfiction Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817 – 1906 Ellie R. Schainker
Nonfiction Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law James Q. Whitman
Nonfiction Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Shari Rabin
Nonfiction Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities Mira Beth Wasserman
Nonfiction A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz David I. Shyovitz
Nonfiction Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917 – 1950 Naomi Prawer Kadar
Nonfiction The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877 – 1935 Matthew Baigell