FINALISTS

2020

Tehran Children:
A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

W.W. NORTON

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Here All Along:
Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life -- in Judaism
(After Finally Choosing to Look There)

SPIEGEL & GRAU

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Shadow Strike:
Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS

2019

The Weight of Ink

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

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Memento Park

FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX

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Underground Fugue

MELVILLE HOUSE

2018

The Many Deaths of Jew Suss

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Jews on the Frontier

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The Lost Book of Moses

HARPER COLLINS

2017

The Yid

PICADOR

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Inherited Disorders:
Stories, Parables & Problems

REGAN ARTS

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The Bed Moved

VINTAGE

2016

Killing a King: The Assassination
of Yitzhak Rabin and

the Remaking of Israel

W.W. NORTON & COMPANY

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The Grammar of God:
A Journey into the Words
and Worlds of the Bible

SPIEGEL & GRAU

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The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed
Their Way to Success in America

and the British Empire

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

2015

Panic in a Suitcase

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

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The UnAmericans

W.W. NORTON & COMPANY

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A Replacement Life

HARPER COLLINS

2014

Jews and Booze:
Becoming American in the
Age of Prohibition

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate
Palestine

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The Genius: Elijah of Vilna &
the Making of Modern Judaism

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

2013

The People of Forever

Are Not Afraid

HOGARTH PRESS

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The Book of Life

BACK BAY BOOKS

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Motti

DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS

2012

A Thousand Darknesses:
Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The Most Musical Nation: Jews and
Culture in the Late Russian Empire

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

2011

Stations West

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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The Cosmopolitans

LIVINGSTON PRESS

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The Invisible Bridge

VINTAGE

2010

Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

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Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

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Surprised by God: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love Religion

BEACON PRESS

2009

The Book of Dahlia

THORNDIKE PRESS

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The Rowing Lesson

SOHO PRESS

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Petropolis

PENGUIN BOOKS

2008

Churchill’s Promised Land:
Zionism and Statecraft

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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A Crack in the Earth:

A Journey Up Israel’s Rift Valley

FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX

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2007

Disobedience

PENGUIN BOOKS

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Accidents

 PICADOR