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Meet the 2026 Finalists

2026 NONFICTION FINALISTS

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Laura Hobson Faure

Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

Yale University Press

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Shaul Kelner

A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

NYU Press

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Jordan Salama

Stranger

in the Desert:

A Family Story  

Catapult

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Amir Tibon

The Gates of Gaza:

A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands

Little, Brown and Company

FINALIST
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credit: Suzie Howell

Avid Reader Press

FINALIST
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credit: Kenneth Resnick

Avid Reader Press

FINALIST
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credit: Pino Weizman

Toby Press

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2025 WINNER

Your Presence Is Mandatory

Bloomsbury Publishing

credit: Christopher Michel

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