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NJBA Winners

The JBC has compiled a list of all National Jewish Book Award winners from the award's inception in 1949 to the present day. Click on a column header to sort by that column.

YEAR	CATEGORY	ENDOWMENT	BOOK TITLE	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER
1949	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	My Glorious Brothers	Howard Fast	Little, Brown
1949	Jewish Thought	Jewish Community Council of Washington, D.C. Award	Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam	Harry A. Wolfson	Harvard University Press
1950	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Wall	John Hersey	Alfred A. Knopf
1950	Jewish Thought	Jewish Community Council of Washington, D.C. Award	The Jews in Medieval Germany: A Study of Their Legal and Social Status	Guido Kirsch	University of Chicago Press
1951	English Poetry	Florence Dovner Memorial Poetry Award	Jerusalem Has Many Faces	Judah Stampfer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1951	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Testament of the Lost Son	Soma Morgenstein	Jewish Publication Society
1951	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Shirim u'Poemot (Songs and Poems)	Aaron Zeitlin	Massad Bialik
1951	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Der Fuller Krug (The Brimming Jug)	ber Lapin	Ykuf
1952	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	All-Of-A-Kind Family	Sidney Taylor	Wilcox and Follet, Dell
1952	Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry	Florence Dovner Memorial Poetry Award		A.M. Klein
1952	Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award		Hillel Bavli
1952	Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Antologia fun der Hebraishe Poesie (Anthology of Hebrew Poetry)	Mordechai Jaffee	CYCO
1952	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Quiet Street	Zelda Popkin	J.B. Lippincott
1953	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	Stories of King David	Lillian S. Freehof	Jewish Publication Society
1953	Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry	Florence Dovner Memorial Poetry Award		Isidore Goldstick
1953	Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award		A.S. Schwarz
1953	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Juggler	Michael Blankt	Little, Brown
1953	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	The Changelings: Collected Poems	Mark Schweid
1954	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	The Jewish People: Book Three	Deborah Pessin	United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education
1954	Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry	Florence Dovner Memorial Poetry Award		Harry H. Fein
1954	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	In the Morning Light	Charles Angoff	Beechurst Press
1954	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Be-Ohalei Kush (In Negro Tents)	Ephraim E. Lisitzky	Mossad Bialik
1954	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Banachtiger Dialog (Night Dialogue)	Eliezer Greenberg	Gezelten
1955	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	King Solomon's Navy	Nora Benjamin Kubie	Harper and Brothers
1955	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Blessed is the Land	Louis Zara	Crown Publishers
1955	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Ner Mul Kochavim (Candle Under the Stars)	Gabriel Preil	Mossad Bialik
1955	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Lider fun a Midbarnik (Poems of a Hermit)	Alter Asselin	Culture Club of the Peretz Hirschbein Folk Theater
1956	Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award		Sadie Rose Weilerstein
1956	Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award		Naftali Gross
1956	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Aderet HaShanim (Mantle of Years)	Hillel Bavli	Mossad Bialik
1957	Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature	Temple B'nai Jeshurun Award Newark, NJ		Elma F. Levinger
1957	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo	Lion Feuchtwanger	Messner
1957	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Avraham Abulfia	Moshe Feinstein	Mossad Bialik
1957	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Fun Mein Gantzer Mei: 1919-1956 (Of All My Toil: Collected Poems 1919-1956)	Jacob Glatstein	Martin Press
1958	Children's Literature	Pioneer Women's Hayim Greenberg Memorial Award	Jewish Junior Encyclopedia	Naomi Ben Asher and Hayim Leaf	Shengold Publishers
1958	Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award		I.J. Schwartz
1958	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Assistant	Bernard Malamud	Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
1958	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Bein ha-Esh veha-Esha (Between the Man and the Woman	Aaron Zeitlin	Yavneh
1959	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	Border Hawk: Agusut Bondi	Lloyd Alexander	Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy/ Jewish Publication Society
1959	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Come Under the Wings: A Midrash on Ruth	Grace Goldin	Jewish Publication Society
1959	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Exodus	Leon Uris	Doubleday/Bantam
1959	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Tzil va-Tzel (Sound and Shadow)	Moshe Ben-Meir	Ogen Publishing House
1959	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Lid Tzu Lid (Poem to Poem)	Benjamin I. Bialostotzky	CYCO
1960	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	Keys to a Magic Door: Isaac Leib Peretz	Sylvia Rothchild	Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy/ Jewish Publication Society
1960	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	The Spoken Choice	Amy K. Blank	Hebrew College Press
1960	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Goodbye Columbus	Philip Roth	Houghtin Mifflin
1960	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Kimron Yamai (Arch of My Days)	Eisig Silberschlag	Kiryat Sefer
1960	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Gildene Shekia (Golden Sunset)	Ephraim Auerbach	Kium
1961	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	Discovering Israel	Regina Tor	Random House
1961	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Human Season	Edward L. Wallant	Harcourt Brace
1961	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	K'mo Hayom Rad (As the Day Wanes)	Ephraim E. Lisitzky	Mahbarot Lesifrut
1961	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Megilath Russland (Scroll of Russia)	Joseph Rubinstein	CYCO
1962	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	Ten and a Kid	Sadie Rose Weilerstein	Doubleday
1962	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Work and Days and Other Poems	Irving Feldman	Little, Brown
1962	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Wedding Band	Samuel Yellen	Atheneum
1962	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Mapat Erev	Gabriel Preil	Dvir
1962	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Nigun Eingehert (In Melody Absorbed)	Israel Emiot	Rochester Culture Council
1963	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	Return to Freedom	Josephine Kamm	Abelard-Schuman
1963	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	By the Waters of Manhattan	Charles Reznikoff	New Directions/ San Francisco Review
1963	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Slave	Issac-Bashevis Singer	Farrar, Straus & Cudahy/Fawcett
1963	Jewish History	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Non-Fiction Award	The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914	Moses Rischin	Harvard University Press
1963	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Der Mensch fun Fier (The Man of Fire)	Chaim Grade	CYCO
1964	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	A Boy of Old Prague	Sulamith Ish-Kishor	Pantheon Books/ Scholastic Inc.
1964	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The King's Persons	Joanne Gereenberg	Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
1964	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Ha-Rei Boer ba-Esh (The Mirror Burns in Fire)	Arnold Band	Ogen Publishing House
1964	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Judaism: Profile of a Faith	Ben Zion Bokser	Burning Bush Press/ Alfred A. Knopf
1964	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Amerike un Ich (America and I)	Aaron Glanz-Leyeles	Der Kval
1965	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	World Lost and Found	Dov Peretz Elkins and Azriel Eisenberg	Abelard-Schuman
1965	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Town Beyond the Wall	Elie Wiesel	Atheneum/Schocken
1965	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Ancient Jewish Philosophy	Israel Efros	Wayne State University Press
1965	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Di Emesse Hasunah (Some Wedding)	Aleph Katz	CYCO
1966	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	The Dreyfus Affair	Betty Schecter	Houghtin Mifflin
1966	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	The Darkening Green	Ruth Finer Mintz	Big Mountain Press
1966	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Stronghold	Meyer Levin	Simon & Schuster
1966	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Ma'avar Yabok (Crossing the Yabok)	Simon Halkin	Am Oved
1966	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer 1939-1945	Zosa Szajkowksi
1966	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	The Higher Freedom: A New Turning Point in Jewish History	David Polish	Quadrangle Press
1966	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Licht fun Dorenboin (A Light from the Thornbush)	Kadia Molodowsky	Kium
1967	Children's Literature	Issac Sigel Memorial Award	The Story of Israel	Meyer Levin	G.P. Putnam's Series
1967	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Well	Chaim Grade	Jewish Publication Society
1967	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Shirim be-Sulam Miner (Poems in a Minor Key)	Leonard D. Freidland	M. Newman
1967	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Algemeyne Entsiklopedye: Yidn VII General Encycolpedia: Jews VII	Abraham Kin, Mordecai Dosover and Isiah Trunk, eds.	Dobnow Fund and Encyclopedia Committee
1967	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Understanding Genesis: The Heritage of Biblical Israel	Nahum M. Sarna	Jewish Theological Seminary of America/ Schocken
1967	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	A Yid fun Lublin (A Jew from Lublin)	Jacob Glatstein	CYCO
1968	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight: The Eichmann Trial, Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Ahrendt's Narrorative	Jacob Robinson	Macmillan
1968	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Origins of the Modern Jew	Michael A. Meyer	Wayne State University Press
1968	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Lider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben (Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith)	Aaron Zeitlin	World Federation of Bergen-Belsen
1969	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	The Marriage Wig and Other Poems	Ruth Whitman	Harcourt, Brace
1969	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Memory of Autumn	Charles Angoff	Thomas Yoseloff
1969	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Derech Eretz (Respect)	Reuven Ben-Meir	Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House
1969	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Holocaust of European Jewry	Nora Levin	Thomas Y. Cromwell/Shocken
1969	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Jewish Catastrophe in Europe	Jodah Pilch	American Association for Jewish Education
1969	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Quest for Past and Future: Essays in Jewish Theology	Emil L. Fackenheim	University of Indiana Press/ Greenwood
1969	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Di Gnod fun Vort	Rachel H. Korn	Hemenora Publishing House
1970	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	The Story of Masadah, by Yigael Yadin: Retold for Young Readers	Gerald Gottlieb	Random House
1970	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time	Charlie May Simon	E.P. Dutton
1970	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Waiting for the News	Leo Litwak	Doubleday
1970	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater: Martyrs Volume	Zalman Zylbercweig	Hebrew Actors Union of America
1970	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Israel: An Echo of Eternity	Abraham Joshua Heschel	Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
1970	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Elbiker Dorsht (Eternal Thirst)	Eliezer Greenberg
1971	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Journey to America	Sonia Levitin	Atheneum
1971	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Traveler Through Time	Ruth Finer Mintz	Jonathan David
1971	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Sheelot u-Teshuvot Mi-Maamakim	Ephraim Oshry
1971	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	The Religion of Ethical Nationhood: Judaism's Contribution to World Peace	Mordechai M. Kaplan	Macmillan
1972	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	The Master of Miracle: A New Novel of the Golem	Sulamith Ish-Kishor	Harper & Row
1972	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories	Cynthia Ozick	Alfred A. Knopf
1972	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Igrotai El Dorot Aherim (Letters to Other Generations)	Eisig Silberschlag	Kiryat Sefer
1972	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945	Henry L. Feingold	Rutgers University Press/ Holocaust Library
1972	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Jewish Worship	Abraham E. Millgram	Jewish Publication Society
1973	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	The Upstairs Room	Johanna Reiss	Thomas Y. Cromwell/Bantam
1973	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Somewhere Else	Robert Kotlowitz	Charterhouse
1973	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Veiterdike Lider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben un Yanish Korshaks Letzte Gange (More Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith and Yanush Korshak's Last Walk)	Aaron Zeitlin	Bergen Belson Memorial Press
1973	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900	Arthur J. Zuckerman	Columbia University Press
1973	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Two Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible	Samuel Sandmel	Wayne State University Press
1973	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters	Elie Wiesel	Random House/ Summit
1973	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Yiddishe Landshaft (Jewish Landscape)	Meir Sticker	Peretz Farlag
1974	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Uncle Misha's Partisans	Yuri Suhl	Four Winds Press
1974	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Judah the Pious	Francine Prose	Atheneum
1974	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	The Question of Palestine, 1914-1978: British Jewish-Arab Relations	Isaiah Friedman	Schocken
1974	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	The Jews of Poland. A Social and Economic History, 1100 to 1800	Bernard D. Weinryb	Jewish Publication Society
1974	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Masks Jews Wear: The Self Deception of American Jewry	Eugene Borowitz	Simon & Schuster
1974	Translation of English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Songs of Jerusalem and Myself	Yehudah Amichai; Harold Schimmel, trans.	Harper & Row
1975	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance	Bea Stadtler	Behrman House/ Anti-Degamation League
1975	Cumulative Contribution to Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award		Solomon Zeitlin
1975	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	White Eagle, Dark Skies	Jean Karsavina	Charles Scribner's Sons
1975	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	Metim ve-Ohavim (The Dead and The Lovers)	Reuven Ben-Yosef	Masada
1975	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation	Isaiah Trunk	Macmillan
1975	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1953	Arnold Krammer	University of Illinois Press
1975	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Major Themes in Modern Philosophies of Judaism	Berkovtis, Eliezer	Ktav Publishing House
1975	Translation of a Jewish Classic	Rabbi Jacob Freedman Award	The Book of Isaiah	Max Arzt, Bernard J. Bamberger, Harry Freedman, H. L. Ginsberg, Solomon Grayzel Solomon, and Harry M. Orlinsky	Jewish Publication Society
1976	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Haym Salomon: Liberty's Son	Shirley Milgrim	Jewish Publication Society
1976	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Other People's Lives	Johanna Kaplan	Alfred A. Knopf
1976	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Yerushalayim de Lite: Jerusalem of Lithuania	Leyzer Ran	Vilner Album Komitet
1976	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust	Melvin I. Urofsky	Doubleday
1976	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	The Myth of the Jewish Race	Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai Wing	Charles Scribner's Sons
1976	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Contemporary Reform Response	Solomon B. Freehof	Hebrew Union College Press/Ktav
1976	Translation of a Jewish Classic	Rabbi Jacob Freedman Award	Pesitka deRab Kahana: R. Kahana's Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festival Days	William G. Braude and Israel J. Kapstein	Jewish Publication Society
1976	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	A Shoton Trogt Main Kroin (A Shadow Wears My Crown)	M. Husid
1977	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Rifka Grows Up	Chaya M. Burstein	Bonim Books/ Hebrew Publishing Co.
1977	English Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	From the Backyard of the Diaspora	Myra Sklarew	Dyrad Press
1977	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Bloodshed and Three Novellas	Cynthia Ozick	Alfred A. Knopf/Dutton
1977	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Sefer Sheelot u-Teshuvot Mi-Maamakim Part 4	Ephraim Oshry
1977	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time	Howard M. Sachar	Alfred A. Knopf
1977	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	World Of Our Fathers	Irving Howe	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Bantam
1977	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest	David Hartman	Jewish Publication Society
1977	Translation of a Jewish Classic	Rabbi Jacob Freedman Award	Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud	Zvi L. Lampel	Judaica Press
1978	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust	Milton Meltzer	Harper & Row
1978	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Yeshiva, Vol. I and II	Chaim Grade	Bobbs-Merrill/ Menorah Publishing
1978	Hebrew Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	El Eretz Aheret (To Another Land)	T. Carmi	Dvir
1978	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life In the Death Camp	Terrence Des Pres	Oxford University Press
1978	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	Letters to an American Jewish Friend	Hillel Halkin	Jewish Publication Society
1978	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	On the Edge of Destruction	Celia S. Heller	Columbia University Press
1978	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	The Jewish Mind	Raphael Patai	Charles Scribner's Sons
1979	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Joshua: Fighter for Bar Kochba	Irene Narel	Akiba Press
1979	Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought	Bernard H. Marks Award		Salo W. Baron
1979	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Leah's Journey	Gloria Goldreich	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Berkeley Publishing
1979	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Deliverance Day: The Last Hours at Dachau	Michael Selzer	J.B. Lippincott
1979	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	Raquela: A Woman of Israel	Ruth Gruber	Coward, McCann & Geoghegan/Signet/New American Library
1979	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Love and Sex: A Modern Jewish Perspective	Robert Gordis	Women's League for Conservative Judaism/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1979	Translation of a Jewish Classic	Rabbi Jacob Freedman Award	Nissim Ben Jacob Ibn Shahin's An Elegant Composition Concerning Relief after Adversity	William M. Brinner	Yale University Press
1979	Yiddish Poetry	Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award	In Droisen fun der Velt (Outside of the World)	Moishe Steingart	Shulsinger Brothers
1980	Children's Literature	Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award	Dita Saxova	Arnost Lustig	Harper & Row
1980	Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry	Jewish Book Council Award for Poetry		Charles Reznikoff
1980	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Apathetic Bookie Joint	Daniel Fuchs	Methuen
1980	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation	Benjamin B. Ferencz	Harvard University Press
1980	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	The Habima--Israel's National Theater 1917-1977: A Study of Cultural Nationalism	Emanuel Levy	Columbia University Press
1980	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	The Jews of Georgian England, 1774-1830	Todd M. Endelman	Jewish Publication Society
1980	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter History	David Biale	Harvard University Press
1980	Yiddish Literature	The Workmen's Circle Award	Tzwishn Shmeichl Un Trern (Between Smiles and Tears)	Peretz Miransky
1981	Children's Literature	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	A Russian Farewell	Leonard Everett Fisher	Four Winds Press
1981	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	O, My America	Johanna Kaplan	Harper & Row
1981	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, 2 Vols.	Randolph L. Braham	Columbia University Press
1981	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126	Mark R. Cohen	Princeton University Press
1981	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)	Isadore Twersky	Yale University Press
1981	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	Purim: The Face and the Mask	Yeshiva University Museum	Yeshiva University Press
1981	Yiddish Literature	The Workmen's Circle Award	Pathways in Yiddish Literature	Hyman Bass	I.L. Peretz Publishing
1981	Yiddish Poetry	Jewish Book Council Award for Poetry	Cavuare at the Funeral	Louis Simpson	Franklin Watts, Inc.
1982	Children's Literature	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	The Night Journey	Kathryn Lasky	Frederick Warne
1982	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Ellis Island and Other Stories	Mark Helprin	Delacorte Press/ Dell
1982	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Vichy France and the Jews	Michael Marrus and Robert O. Paxton	Basic Books
1982	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	Egypt and Israel	Howard M. Sachar	Richard Marek Publishers
1982	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	The World of a Renaissance Jew	David Ruderman	Hebrew Union College
1982	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	The Art of Biblical Narrative	Robert Alter	Basic Books
1982	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	Art of the Holocaust	Janet Blatter and Sybil Milton	Routledge
1982	Yiddish Literature	The Workmen's Circle Award	Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddush in Jewish Life and Letters	Joshua A. Fisherman, ed	Mouton Publishers
1983	Children's Literature	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	King of the Seventh Grade	Barbara Cohen	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
1983	Children's Picture Book		Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story	Barbara Cohen; Michael J. Deraney, illus.	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
1983	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Temple	Robert Greenfield	Summit Books
1983	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948	Irving Abella and Harold Troper	Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers/ Random
1983	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	Among Lions: The Battle for Jerusalem, June 5-7, 1967	J. Robert Moskin	Arbor House
1983	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory	Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi	University of Washington Press
1983	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: The Career and Controversies of Ramah	Bernard Septimus	Harvard University Press
1983	Scholarship	Sarah H. Kushner Memorial Award	The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism	Jeremy Cohen	Cornell University Press
1983	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	Israel in Antiquity: From David to Herod	Andrew S. Ackerman and Susan L. Braunstein	The Jewish Museum
1983	Yiddish Literature	The Workmen's Circle Award	Kanader Tidisher Zamlbukh (Canadian Jewish Anthology)	Chaim Spilberg and Yaacov Zippe	National Committeee for Yiddish at the Canadian Jewish Congress
1984	Biography	Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award	Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire	Dan Kurzman	Simon & Schuster
1984	Children's Literature	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	The Jewish Kids Catalog	Chaya M. Burstein	Jewish Publication Society
1984	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	An Admirable Woman	Arthur A. Cohen	David Godine
1984	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Quality of Witness: A Rumanian Diary 1937-44	Margueritte Dorian	Jewish Publication Society
1984	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	Israel in the Mind of America	Peter Grose	Alfred A. Knopf/Schocken
1984	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855	Michael Stanislwaski	Jewish Publication Society
1984	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought	Steven T. Katz	New York University Press
1984	Scholarship	Julius Kushner Award	A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Community of the Arab World, as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza--Daily Life	S. D. Goitein	University of California Press
1984	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	A Vanished World	Roman Vishnaic	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1984	Yiddish Literature	The Workmen's Circle Award	Tsu Di Himlen Arof (To the Heavens Above)	Chaim Leib Fox	CYCO
1985	Biography	Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award	Martin Buber's Life and Works: The Later Years, 1945-1965	Maurice Friedman	E.P. Dutton
1985	Children's Literature	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	Good If It Goes	Gary Provost and Gail Levine-Friedus	Bradbury Press
1985	Children's Picture Book		Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks	Amy Schwartz	Jewish Publication Society
1985	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	Invisible Mending	Frederick Busch	David R. Godine
1985	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Abandonment of Jews: America and the Holocaust	David S. Wyman	Pantheon Books
1985	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab Jewish Conflict Over Palestine	Joan Peters	Harper & Row
1985	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914	Naomi W. Cohen	Jewish Publication Society
1985	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	Halakhic Man	Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Lawrence Kaplan, trans.	Jewish Publication Society
1985	Scholarship	Julius Kushner Award	The Wars of the Lord: Book One--Immortality of the Soul	Levi Ben Gershon; Seymour Feldman, trans.	Jewish Publication Society
1985	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	The Rothschild Mahzor: Florence, 1492	Evelyn M. Cohen	The Library/ The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
1985	Yiddish Literature	The Workmen's Circle Award	Fun Ash Un Fayer Iz Dayn Kroyn (From Ash and Fire Is Your Crown)	Shea Tenebaum	CYCO
1986	Biography	Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award	Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader	Jehuda Reinharz	Oxford University Press
1986	Children's Literature	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	The Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944	Linda Atkison	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
1986	Children's Picture Book		Brothers	Florence B. Freedman; Andrew Parker, illus.	Harper & Row
1986	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S.	Arnost Lustig; Vera Kalina-Levine, trans.	Arbor House
1986	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Destruction of the European Jews: Revised and Definitive Edition	Raul Hildberg	Holmes and Meier
1986	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy From Truman to Reagan	Steven L. Spiegel	University of Chicago Press
1986	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	Religious Conflict in Social Context. The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in Frankfurt am Main, 1838-1877	Robert Liberles	Leo Baeck Institute/Greenwood Press
1986	Jewish Thought	Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award	A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism	David Hartman	The Free Press
1986	Scholarship	Julius Kushner Award	Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel	Michael Fishbane	Oxford University Press
1986	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning	Carol Herselle Krinsky	The Architectural History Foundation/ MIT Press
1987	Children's Literature	Shapolsky's Great Judaica Books Award	Monday in Odessa	Eileen Bluestone Sherman	Jewish Publication Society
1987	Children's Picture Book		Poems for Jewish Holidays	Myra C. Livingston; Lloyd Bloom, illus.	Holiday House
1987	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide	Robert J. Lifton	Basic Books
1987	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	A Walker in Jerusalem	Samuel Heilman	Summit Books
1987	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	Power and Powerless in Jewish History	David Biale	Schocken
1987	Jewish Thought	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	Galut: Modern Jewish Reflections on Homelessness and Homecoming	Arnold M. Eisen	Indiana University Press
1987	Scholarship	Julius Kushner Award	Sifre: A Tannaitic Commentary on the Book of Deutoronomy	Reuven Hammer	Yale University Press
1987	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	Jewish Folk Art: From Biblical Days to Modern Times	Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson	Summit Books
1988	Children's Literature	Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award	The Return	Sonia Levitin	Atheneum
1988	Children's Picture Book		Exodus, Adapted from the Bible	Miriam Chaikin; Charles Mikolaycak, illus.	Holiday House
1988	Contemporary Jewish Life	Muriel and Phil Berman Award	Mixed Blessings: Marriage Between Jews and Christians	Paul and Rachel Cowan	Doubleday
1988	Fiction	Harry and Ethel Daroff Award	The Counterlife	Philip Roth	Farrar, Straus & Giroux
1988	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Italians and the Holocaust	Susan Zuccotti	Basic Books
1988	Israel	Morris J. Kaplun Award	Ben Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886-1948	Shabtai Teveth	Houghtin Mifflin
1988	Jewish History	Bernard H. Marks Award	European Jewry and the First Crusade	Robert Chazan	University of California Press
1988	Jewish Thought	William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld	The Orphaned Adult: Confronting the Death of a Parent	Marc D. Angel	Insight Books/ Human Sciences Press
1988	Scholarship	Julius Kushner Award	Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe	Daniel M. Friedenberg	Wayne State University Press
1988	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Award	The Jewish Image in American Film	Lester D. Friedman	Citadel Press/ Lyle Stuart
1989	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Fear No Evil	Nathan Sharansky	Random House
1989	Children's Literature	Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award	The Devil's Arithmetic	Jane Yolen	Viking Kestrel
1989	Children's Picture Book	Marcia and Louis Posner Award	Just Enough is Plenty: A Hannukah Tale	Barbara Diamond Goldin; Seymour Chwast, illus.	Viking Kestrel
1989	Contemporary Jewish Life	Muriel and Phil Berman Award	Broken Alliance: the Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America	Jonathan Kaufman	Charles Scribner's Sons
1989	Fiction	William and Janice Epstein Award	The Immortal Bartfuss	Aharon Appelfeld	Weidenfeld
1989	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War	Christopher Simpson	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1989	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound	Haim Chertok	Fordham University Press
1989	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism	Michael A. Meyer	Oxford University Press
1989	Jewish Thought	Annonymous Donor	Commandments and Concerns: Jewish Religious Education in Secular Society	Michael Rosenack	Jewish Publication Society
1989	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	Kabbalah: New Perspectives	Moshe Idel	Yale University Press
1989	Visual Arts	Leon L. Gildesgame Memorial Award	A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts	Leonard Gold	New York Public Library/ Oxford University Press
1990	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	From That Time and Place: A Memoir 1938-1947	Lucy Dawidowicz	W.W. Norton
1990	Children's Literature	Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	Houghtin Mifflin
1990	Children's Picture Book	Marcia and Louis Posner Award	Berchik	Esther Silverstein Blanc; Tennessee Dixon, illus.	Volcano Press
1990	Contemporary Jewish Life	Muriel and Phil Berman Award	Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism	Riv-Ellen Prell	Wayne State University Press
1990	Fiction	William and Janice Epstein Award	Five Seasons	A.B. Yehoshua; Hillel Halkin, trans.	Doubleday
1990	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	A Cup of Tears: Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto	Lewin Abraham and Antony Polansky, ed.	Basil Blackwell
1990	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO	Harris O. Schoenberg	Shapolsky
1990	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	The Road to Modern Jewish Politics	Eli Lederhendler	Oxford University Press
1990	Jewish Thought	Annonymous Donor	Jewish Preaching, 1200-1800	Marc Saperstein	Yale University Press
1990	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	"""Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It"" The Ancient and Medeival Career of a Biblical Text"	Jeremy Cohen	Cornell University Press
1990	Visual Arts	Ita and Joshua Aber Award	Jews in America	David Cohen, ed.	Collins Publishers
1991	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood	Irving Louis Horowitz	University Press of Mississippi
1991	Children's Literature	Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award	Becoming Gershona	Nava Semel; Seymour Simckes, trans.	Viking Penguin
1991	Children's Picture Book	Marcia and Louis Posner Award	Hannukah!	Roni Schotter; Marylin Hafner, illus.	Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
1991	Contemporary Jewish Life	Ronald Lauder Foundation Award	Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Policy Post War World	Daniel J. Elazar and Harold M. Waller	Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/ University Press of America
1991	Fiction	William and Janice Epstein Award	The Gift of Asher Lev	Chaim Potok	Alfred A. Knopf
1991	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry 1932-1945	Leni Yahlil; Ina Friedman and Haya Galai, trans.	Oxford University Press
1991	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925	Sergio Minerbi; Arnold Schwartz, trans.	Oxford University Press
1991	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbataian Controversies	Elisheva Carlebach	Columbia University Press
1991	Jewish Thought	Annonymous Donor	Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew	Neil Gillman	Jewish Publication Society
1991	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	History, Religion, and Anti-Semitism	Gavin Langmuir	University of California Press
1991	Visual Arts	Ita and Joshua Aber Award	Kettubah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of Hebrew Union College	Shalom Sabar	Skirball Museum and Klau Library/Jewish Publication Society
1992	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Mostly Morganthaus: A Family History	Henry Morganthau III	Ticknor and Fields
1992	Children's Literature	The Once Upon A Time Bookstore Award	The Man From the Other Side	Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin, trans.	Houghtin Mifflin
1992	Children's Picture Book	Marcia and Louis Posner Award	Chicken Man	Michelle Edwards	HarperCollins
1992	Contemporary Jewish Life	Ronald Lauder Foundation Award	Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism	Lynn Davidman	University of California Press
1992	Fiction	The Arete Foundation Award	The Rosendorf Quartet	Nathan Shaham; Dalya Bilu, trans.
1992	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Escaping the Holocaust: Illefal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939-1944	Dalia Ofer	Oxford University Press
1992	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations	Itamar Rabinovitch	Oxford University Press
1992	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	The Making of the Jewish Middle Class. Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany	Marion A. Kaplan	Oxford University Press
1992	Jewish Thought	Annonymous Donor	Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable	Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi	Yale University Press
1992	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre Deuteronomy	Steven D. Fraade	State Unversity of New York Press
1992	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain	Ross Brann	The Johns Hopkins University Press
1992	Visual Arts	Ita and Joshua Aber Award	Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945	Norman L. Kleeblatt and Susan Chevlowe, eds.	The Jewish Museum/ Indiana University Press
1993	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist	Norman Manea	Grove Weidenfeld
1993	Children's Literature	The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award	Letters from Rivke	Karen Hesse	Henry Holt
1993	Children's Picture Book	Marcia and Louis Posner Award	Elijah's Angel	Michael J. Rosen; Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, illus.	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1993	Contemporary Jewish Life	Ronald Lauder Foundation Award	Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America	William Helmreich	Simon & Schuster
1993	Fiction	The Arete Foundation Award	Mr. Mani	A.B. Yehoshua	Doubleday
1993	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning	James E. Young	Yale University Press
1993	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Land and Power: The Zionists Resort to Force, 1887-1948	Anita Shapira; William Templer, trans.	Oxford University Press
1993	Jewish Folklore and Anthropology	The Raphael Patai Award	Hasidic People: A Place in the New World	Jerome R. Mintz	Harvard University Press
1993	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality	Naomi W. Cohen	Oxford University Press
1993	Jewish Thought	Annonymous Donor	Women as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem	Susan Starr Sered	Oxford University Press
1993	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	Jewish Education and Society in the Middle Ages	Ephraim Kanarfogel	Wayne State University Press
1993	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	History of the Sephardic Experience	Jane S. Gerber	The Free Press
1993	Visual Arts	Ita and Joshua Aber Award	The Jews: A Treasury of Arts and Literature	Sharon R. Keller, ed	Hugh Lauter Levin/Macmillan
1994	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	A Spy in Canaan: My Secret Life as a Jewish-American Businessman Spying for Israel in Arab Lands	Howard A. Shack	Birch Lane Press, Carol Publishing Group
1994	Children's Literature	The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award	Golden Windows and Other Scenes of Jerusalem	Adele Geras	Willa Perlman/ HarperCollins Childrens Books
1994	Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The Always Prayer Shawl	Sheldon Oberman; Ted Lewin, illus.	Boyd Mills Press
1994	Contemporary Jewish Life	Ronald Lauder Foundation Award	A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America	Jack Wertheimer	Basic Books
1994	Fiction	The Arete Foundation Award	The Prince of West End Avenue	Alan Isler	Bridge Works Publishing Co.
1994	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland	Christopher R. Browning	HarperCollins
1994	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Exclusive Report: Ahad Ha'Am and the Origins of Zionism	Steven Zipperstein	University of California Press
1994	Jewish Education	Annonymous Donor	Studies in Jewish Education: Educational Issues and Classical Jewish Texts, Volume 5	Howard Deitcher and Abraham J. Tannenbaum, eds.	Magnes Press of Hebrew University
1994	Jewish Folklore and Anthropology	The Raphael Patai Award	Folklore of the Sephardic Jews, volume III	Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman	University of California Press
1994	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Anti-Semitism in America	Leonard Dinnerstein	Oxford University Press
1994	Jewish Thought	Annonymous Donor	The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism	Michael Fishbane	University of Washington Press
1994	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles	Menachem Elon	Jewish Publication Society
1994	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century	Michael Laskier	New York University Press
1994	Visual Arts	Ita and Joshua Aber Award	Jewish Papercuts: A History and Guide	Joseph and Yehudit Shadur	Gefen Publishing House/ Judah Magnes Museum
1995	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	In This Dark House: A Memoir	Louise Kehoe	Schocken
1995	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Under the Domin Tree	Gita Almagor	Simon & Schuster
1995	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Mazel	Rebecca Goldstein	Viking
1995	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine of the Boys of Terezin		Jewish Publication Society
1995	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Beyond the Promised Land	Glenn Frankel	Simon & Schuster
1995	Jewish Folklore and Anthropology	The Raphael Patai Award	Chosen Tales	Penninah Schramm	Jason Aronson
1995	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	The Wonders of America	Jenna Weissman Joselit	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1995	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	Spiritual PilgrimageL Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995	Pope John Paul II	Continuum
1995	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Genesis: The Beginning of Desire	Avivah Zornberg	Jewish Publication Society
1995	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	Through A Speculum That Shines	Elliot Wolfson	Princeton University Press
1995	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	The Origins of the Inquisition	Ben Zion Netanyahu	Random House
1995	Visual Arts	Annonymous Donor	Jewish Art	Hugh Lauter Levin Associates	Grossman, Grace Cohen
1996	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Fragments	Binjamin Wilkomirski	Schocken
1996	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Next Year in Jerusalem	Howard Schwartz	Viking
1996	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Gangsters	Evan Zimroth	Crown Publishers
1996	Holocaust	Leon Jolson Award	Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present	Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt	W.W. Norton
1996	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma	Geoffrey Wheatcroft	Addison, Wesley, Longman
1996	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov	Moshe Rosman	University of California Press
1996	Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth	Robert A. Paul	Yale University Press
1996	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Content of Paul's Letter	Mark D. Nanos	Fortress
1996	Lifetime Literary Achievement Award			Allen Ginsberg
1996	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Shalom, Friend Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzchak Rabin	Jerusalem Report	Newmarket Press
1996	Scholarship	Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award	Your Voice Like A Ram's Horn: Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Teaching	Marc Saperstein	Hebrew Union College Press
1996	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	Secrecy and Deceit: The True Religion of the Crypto-Jews	David Gitilitz	Jewish Publication Society
1996	Visual Arts	Annonymous Donor	And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues	Neil Folberg	Aperture
1997	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Miriam's Kitchen	Elizabeth Ehrlich	Viking
1997	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	The Golem	Barbara Rogasky	Holiday House
1997	Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Marven of the Great North Woods	Kathryn Lasky; Kevin Hawkes, illus.	Harcourt Brace
1997	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The Actual	Saul Bellow	Viking
1997	Holocaust	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Nazi Germany and the Jews	Saul Friedlander	HarperCollins
1997	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel	Yaron Ezrahi	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1997	Jewish Education	Leon Jolson Award	Succeeding in Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work	Joseph Reimer	Jewish Publication Society
1997	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	German-Jewish History in Moderm Times, Vol. 2: Emancipation and Acculturation: 1780-1871	Michael Meyer	Columbia University Press
1997	Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Mystical Masters	Rodger Kamenetz	HarperSanFrancisco
1997	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara	David I. Kertzer	Alfred A. Knopf
1997	Lifetime Literary Achievement Award			Cynthia Ozick
1997	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Unfinished People	Ruth Gay	W.W. Norton
1997	Scholarship	Annonymous Donor	Revelation Restored	David Weiss Halivni	Westview Press
1997	Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York	Claudia Roden	Alfred A. Knopf
1997	Visual Arts	Annonymous Donor	Judaica at the Smithsonian: Cultural Politics as Cultural Model	Grace Cohen Grossman with Richard Eighme Ahlborn	Smithsonian Institution Press
1998	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Jacob, Menachem, and Maimon	Marcel Benabou	University of Nebraska Press
1998	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Heeding the Call	Norman Finkelstein	Jewish Publication Society
1998	Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	You Never Know	Francine Prose; Mark Podwal, illus.	Greenwillow
1998	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The Iron Tracks	Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green, trans.	Schocken
1998	Holocaust	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany	Marion A. Kaplan	Oxford University Press
1998	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Israel's Place in the Middle East	Nissim Rejwan	University Press of Florida
1998	Jewish Education	Leon Jolson Award	First Fruit: A Whizin Anthology of Jewish Family Education	Adrianne Blank and Ron Wolfson, eds.	Whizin Institute
1998	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam	Miriam Bodian	Indiana University Press
1998	Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	Engendering Judaism	Rachel Adler	Jewish Publication Society
1998	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus	Susanna Heschel	University of Chicago Press
1998	Lifetime Literary Achievement Award			Philip Roth
1998	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Kaddish	Leon Wieseltier	Alfred A. Knopf
1998	Scholarship	Annonymous Donor	Entering the High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to History, Prayers, and Themes	Reuven Hammer	Jewish Publication Society
1998	Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	A Time To Be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth	Michele Klein	Jewish Publication Society
1998	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	The Geonim of Babylonia	Robert Brody	Yale University Press
1998	Women's Studies	The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award By Her Friends	Jewish Women in America	Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds.	Routledge
1999	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	King David's Harp	Steven Sadow, ed.	University of New Mexico Press
1999	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	With All My Heart, With All My Mind	Sandy Asher, ed.	Simon & Schuster
1999	Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback	Viking/ Penguin Putnam, Inc.
1999	Eastern European Studies	Ronald S. Lauder Award	Polin	Israel Bartal and Antony Polonsky, eds.	Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
1999	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The Wedding Jester	Steve Stern	Graywolf Press
1999	Holocaust	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Reading the Holocaust	Inga Clendinnen	Cambrige University Press
1999	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	The Multiple Identities of the Middle East	Bernard Lewis	Schocken
1999	Jewish Education	Leon Jolson Award	Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education	Carol K. Ingall	Jewish Theological Seminary
1999	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture	Emily D. Bilski, ed.	University of California Press/ The Jewish Museum
1999	Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	The Religious Thought of Hasidism	Norman Lamm	Ktav Publishing House
1999	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity	Paul Fredriksen	Alfred A. Knopf
1999	Lifetime Literary Achievement Award			Herman Wouk
1999	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Yosi Rakover Talks to God	Zvi Kolitz	Pantheon Books
1999	Reference	Annonymous Donor	The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning	Eli Yassif	Indiana University Press
1999	Scholarship	Annonymous Donor	Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity	Jeremy Cohen	University of California Press
1999	Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews	David Gitilitz and Linda Kay Davidson	St. Martin's Press
1999	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto Jewish Women of Castile	Renne Levine Melammed	Oxford University Press
1999	Women's Studies	The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award By Her Friends	Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Cyrpto-Jewish Women of Castile	Renee Levine Melammed	Oxford University Press
1999	Yiddish Language and Culture	The Forward Association Award	Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country	Marek Web and Alter Kacyzne	Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
2000	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	A Scholar's Odyssey	Cyrus H. Gordon	Society of Biblical Literature
2000	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	The Day the Rabbi Disappeared	Howard Schwartz	Viking
2000	Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Moishe's Miracle	Laura Krauss Melmed; David Slonim, illus.	HarperCollins
2000	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The Human Stain	Philip Roth	Houghtin Mifflin
2000	Holocaust	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Hitler's Austria	Evan Bukey	University of North Carolina Press
2000	Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	One Palestine, Complete	Tom Segev	Metropolitan Books
2000	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	One Palestine, Complete	Segeve	Metropolitan Books
2000	Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	A Letter in the Scroll	Jonathan Sacks	The Free Press
2000	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy	Susan Zuccotti	Yale University Press
2000	Lifetime Literary Achievement Award			Elie Wiesel
2000	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry	Samuel G. Freedman	Simon & Schuster
2000	Reference	Annonymous Donor	Reader's Guide to Judaism	Michael Terry, ed.	Fitzroy Dearborn
2000	Scholarship	Annonymous Donor	The Modern Jewish Canon	Ruth R. Wisse	The Free Press
2000	Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	Synagogues Without Jews	Rivka Dorfman and Ben-Zion	Jewish Publication Society
2000	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	Reluctant Cosmopolitans	Daniel M. Swetschinski	Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2000	Women's Studies	The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award By Her Friends	Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Contraception in Israel	Susan Martha Kahn	Duke University Press
2000	Yiddish Language and Culture	The Forward Association Award	The Moscow State Yiddish Theater	Jeffrey Veidlinger	Indiana University Press
2001	Autobiography/Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	The Rebbe's Daughter	Malkah Shapiro; Nehemia Polen, trans.	Jewish Publication Society
2001	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish American Experience	Norman Finkelstein	Jewish Publication Society
2001	Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The Littlest Pair	Sylvia Rouss; Holly Harmon, illus.	Pitspopany Press
2001	Eastern European Studies	Ronald S. Lauder Award	Stalin's Secret Pogrom	Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov, eds.	Yale University Press in association with the U.S. Holocaust Museum
2001	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Everything is Illuminated	Jonathan Safran Foer	Houghtin Mifflin
2001	Holocaust	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Salvaged Pages	Alexandra Zapruder	Yale University Press
2001	Jewish Education	Leon Jolson Award	Reclaiming Goodness	Hanan Alexander	University of Notre Dame Press
2001	Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	When A Jew Dies	Samuel Heilman	University of California Press
2001	Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	Jazz Age Jews	Michael Alexander	Princeton University Press
2001	Non-Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary	David Lieber and Jules Harlow. eds.	Rabbinical Assembly, United Synagogue of conservative Judaism & Jewish Publication Society
2001	Reference	Annonymous Donor	The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, Before and During the Holocause, 3 Volumes	Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; Geoffrey Wigoder, consulting editor	New York University Press & Yad Vashem
2001	Scholarship	Annonymous Donor	Imperialism and Jewish Society	Seth Schwartz	Princeton University Press
2001	Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	The Jewish Cultural Tapestry	Steven M. Lowenstein	Oxford University Press
2001	Yiddish Language and Culture	The Forward Association Award	Yiddish: A Nation of Words	Miriam Weinstein	Steerforth Press
2002	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews	James Carroll	Houghtin Mifflin
2002-2003	Anthologies	Jewish Book Council Award	Cultures of the Jews	David Biale	Schocken Books
2002-2003	Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Jewish Holidays All Year Round	Ilene Cooper	Abrams Books
2002-2003	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices	Mimi Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics	Elliot Dorff	Jewish Publication Society
2002-2003	Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	A Jew in America	Arthur Hertzberg	Harper San Francisco
2002-2003	Jewish Book of the Year Award	Everett Family Foundation	Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East	Michael B. Oren	Oxford University Press
2002-2003	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The Russian Debutante's Handbook	Gary Shteyngart	Riverhead Books
2002-2003	First Time Author	Jewish Book Council Award	In the Image	Dara Horn	W. W. Norton
2002-2003	Holocaust	Nelco Foundation Award	Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust	Nechama Tec	Yale University Press
2002-2003	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Iriving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent	Gerald Sorin	New York University Press
2002-2003	Scholarship	Dorot Foundation Awards in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies	Martin Goodman, ed.	Oxford University Press
2002-2003	Special Recognition	Jewish Book Council Award	Hana's Suitcase	Karen Levine	Albert Whitman & Co.
2002-2003	Women's Studies	The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award By Her Friends	Reading the Women of the Bible	Tivka Frymer-Kensky	Schocken Books
2004	Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	I am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl	Ruth Pearl and Judea Pearl, eds.	Jewish Lights Publishing
2004	Children's and Young Adults' Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion	Eric Kimmel	Scholastic Books
2004	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices	Jewish Book Council Award	The Blessing of a Broken Heart	Sherri Mandell	Toby Press
2004	Jewish Book of the Year Award	Everett Family Foundation	American Judaism: A History	Jonathan Sarna	Yale University Press
2004	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Portrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime	Majorie Sandor	Sarabande Books
2004	Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	The Origins of the Final Solution: Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942	Christopher R. Browning	University of Nebraska Press
2004	Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen	As told to Michelle R. McCann and Luba Tryszynska-Frederick	Tricycle Press
2004	Jewish Education	Jewish Book Council Award	Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice	Barry Holtz	Jewish Theological Seminary Press
2004	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank	Steve Oney	Pantheon Books
2004	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1	Daniel C. Matt	Stanford University Press
2004	Scholarship	Jewish Book Council Award	The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, Torah, Nevi'im, Kethuvim	Marc Brettler and Adelle Berlin, eds.	Oxford University Press
2004	Visual Arts	Jewish Book Council Award	Diaspora: Homelands in Exile	Frederic Brenner	HarperCollins
2004	Women's Studies	The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award By Her Friends	Gender and Israeli Society: Women's Time: New Studies from Israel	Hannah Naveh, ed.	Vallentine Mitchell
2005	American Jewish History	Jewish Book Council Award	The Chosen: The Hidden History of Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton	Jerome Karabel	Houghton Mifflin
2005	Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer	Derek Rubin, ed.	Schocken
2005	Biography and Autobiography	Jewish Book Council Award	Ester and Ruzya: How my Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace	Masha Gessen	Bantam Dell Publishing Group
2005	Children's and Young Adults' Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Real Time	Pinna Moed Kass	Clarion Books
2005	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices	Jewish Book Council Award	The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year	Scott-Martin Kosofsky	Harper SanFrancisco
2005	Eastern European Studies	Ronald S. Lauder Award	The Jewish Century	Yuri Slezkine	Princeton University Press
2005	Jewish Book of the Year Award	Everett Family Foundation	A Tale of Love and Darkness	Amos Oz	Harcourt
2005	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The Final Solution: A Story of Detection	Michael Chabon	Fourth Estate
2005	Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving	Deborah Lipstadt	Ecco
2005	Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century	Uri Shulevitz	Farrar Straus and Giroux
2005	Jewish Family Literature	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	A Box of Candles	Laurie A. Jacobs; Shelly Ephraim, illus.	Boyds Mills Press
2005	Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950	Mark Mazower	Knopf
2005	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity	David Ellenson	HUC Press
2005	Poetry	Jewish Book Council Award	Everything is Burning: Poems	Gerald Stern	W.W. Norton
2005	Reference	Jewish Book Council Award	Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism	Howard Schwartz	Oxford University Press
2005	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imaginiation	Elliott R. Wolfson	Fordham University Press
2005	Sephardic Culture	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature	Ilan Stavans, ed.	Schocken
2005	Visual Arts	Jewish Book Council Award	Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation	Emily D. Blski and Emily Braun, eds.	The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press
2005	Women's Studies	The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award By Her Friends	The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt	Ruth Andrew Ellenson, ed.	Dutton
2006	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Emma Lazarus	Esther Schor	Schocken/Nextbook
2006	Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Writing a Modern Jewish History	Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett	Yale University Press/The Jewish Museum
2006	Biography and Autobiography	Jewish Book Council Award	The Lost	Daniel Mendelsohn	HarperCollins
2006	Children's and Young Adults' Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	Random House Children's Books
2006	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Jewish Book Council Award	Fragmented Families	Ellen B. Sucov	Southern Hills Press
2006	Eastern European Studies	Ronald S. Lauder Award	Caviar and Ashes	Marci Shore	Yale University Press
2006	Education and Jewish Identity	Jewish Book Council Award	Building Jewish Roots	Faydra Shapiro	McGill-Queen's University Press
2006	Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	The World to Come	Dara Horn	W.W. Norton
2006	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Award	Becoming Eichmann	David Cesarani	Da Capo Press
2006	Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	The Jewish Enemy	Jeffrey Herf	Harvard University Press
2006	Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The White Ram	Mordecai Gerstein	Holiday House
2006	Jewish Book of the Year Award	Everett Family Foundation	A Code of Jewish Ethics, Vol.1	Joseph Telushkin	Crown Publishing Group
2006	Jewish Family Literature	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Lilith's Ark	Deborah Bodin Cohen	Jewish Publication Society
2006	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	The Rabbi's Wife	Shuly Rubin Schwartz	New York University Press
2006	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel	Jon D. Levenson	Yale University Press
2006	Sephardic Culture	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	Folktales of the Jews, Vol.1	Dan Ben-Amos	Jewish Publication Society
2006	Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised	Shaye J.D. Cohen	University of California Press
2007	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America	Edward K. Kaplan	Yale University Press
2007	Anthologies and Collections		Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal	Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels and Mark Weitzman, eds.	Vallentine Mitchell
2007	Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	A Guest in my Own Country: A Hungarian Life	George Konrad	Other Press
2007	Children’s and Young Adult Literature		Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel	Marv Wolfman, Mario Ruiz, and William Rubin	Nachshon Press
2007	Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice		Inventing Jewish Ritual	Vanessa Ochs	Jewish Publication Society
2007	Eastern European Studies	Ronald S. Lauder Award	An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two-Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose And Poetry, Two-Volume Set	Maxim D. Shrayer. ed.	M.E. Sharpe Publishers
2007	Jewish Book of the Year Award	Everett Family Foundation	How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now	James L. Kugel	Free Press
2007	Fiction		A Pigeon and a Boy	Meir Shalev	Schocken Books
2007	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft	Michael Makovsky	Yale University Press
2007	Holocaust		Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare Stat	Götz Aly	Henry Holt and Company
2007	Illustrated Children’s Books	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Even Higher	Richard Ungar	Tundra Books of Northern New York
2007	Jewish Book Council Lifetime Achievement Award			Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
2007	Jewish Family Literature	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Power of Song: And Other Sephardic Tales	Rita Roth; Alexa Ginsburg, illus	Jewish Publication Society
2007	Modern Jewish Thought & Experience	Dorot Foundation Award In memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	My People’s Prayer Book Series	Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, ed.	Jewish Lights Publishing
2007	Poetry		The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492	Peter Cole, ed.	Princeton University Press
2007	Reference		The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period	Steven T. Katz, ed.	Cambridge Univeristy Press
2007	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism	Moshe Idel	Continuum
2007	Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews	Poopa Dweck	Michael McKenzie
2007	Visual Arts		Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel	Murray Zimiles	Brandeis University Press
2007	Women’s Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation	Tova Hartman	Brandeis University Press
2008	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture	Julian Levinson	Indiana University Press
2008	Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Marie Syrkin:Values Beyond the Self	Carole Kessner	Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England
2008	Children’s and Young Adult Literature		The Diary of Laura's Twin	Kathy Kacer	Second Story Press
2008	Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice		Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey	Rabbi Harold Schulweis	Jewish Lights
2008	Education and Jewish Identity		What We Now Know About Jewish Education	Roberta Louis Goodman, Paul A. Flexner, Linda Dale Bloomberg, eds.	Torah Aura Productions
2008	Jewish Book of the Year Award	Everett Family Foundation	The Torah: A Women's Commentary	Dr. Tamara Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss	URJ Press
2008	Fiction		Songs for the Butcher's Daughter	Peter Manseau	Free Press
2008	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War	Benny Morris	Yale University Press
2008	Holocaust		The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews	Father Patrick Desbois	Palgrave Macmillan
2008	Illustrated Children’s Books	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story	Eric A. Kimmel; Katya Krenina, illus.	Holiday House
2008	Jewish Family Literature	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Genesis-the Book with Seventy Faces: A guide for the Family	Esther Takac	Pitspopany Press
2008	Modern Jewish Thought & Experience	Dorot Foundation Award In memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust	David Patterson	Syracuse University Press
2008	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900	Adam Shear	Cambridge University Press
2008	Sephardic Culture	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	Greece: A Jewish History	K.E Fleming	Princeton University Press
2008	Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book	Aliza Lavie	Spiegel & Grau
2008	Writing Based On Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust	Martin Dean	Cambridge University Press
2009	Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation	Louis D. Brandeis: A Life	Melvin Urofsky	Pantheon Books
2009	Lifetime Achivement	Jewish Book Council Award		Ruth Gruber	Schocken--Katie Freeman
2009	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962	Hasia Diner	New York University Press
2009	Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Rethinking European Jewish History	Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman, eds.	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2009	Biography, Auto, and Memoir	In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner	Dina Porat; Elizabeth Yuval, trans.	Stanford University Press
2009	Children's and Young Adult Lit	Jewish Book Council Award	The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis	Kim Ablon Whitney	Knopf Books for Young Readers
2009	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Jewish Book Council Award	Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End	Daniel Gordis	John Wiley & Sons
2009	Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	Gratitude: A Novel	Joseph Kertes	Thomas Dunne Books
2009	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America	Beryl Satter	Metropolitan Books
2009	Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos,1933-1945, volume 1	Geoffrey P. Megargee, volume editor	Indiana University Press
2009	Illustrated Children's	Louis Posner Memorial Award	JPS Illustrated Children's Bible	Ellen Frankel; Avi Katz, illus.	Jewish Publication Society
2009	Jewish Family Lit	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays: Passover, The Omer, Shavuot, Tisha b'Av	Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.	Jewish Publication Society
2009	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	Covenant & Conversation, A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Book of Beginnings	Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks	Koren Publishers
2009	Poetry	Jewish Book Council Award	The Book of Seventy	Alicia Suskin Ostriker	University of Pittsburgh Press
2009	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Subversive Sequels in the Bible	Judy Klitsner	Jewish Publications Society
2009	Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands	Rachel Shabi	Walker & Company
2009	Visual Arts	Jewish Book Council Award	Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976	Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed.	Yale University Press Published in association with The Jewish Museum
2009	Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn	Ayala Fader	Princeton University Press
2009	Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	The Holocaust in the Soviet Union	Yitzhak Arad; Ora Cummings, trans.	University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem
2010	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	The Rebbe	Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman	Princeton University Press
2010	Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Cambridge Guide to Jewish History	Judith Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin	Cambridge University Press
2010	Biography and Memoir	In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Dreyfus	Ruth Harris	Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
2010	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Jewish Book Council Award	Walking Israel	Martin Fletcher	Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
2010	Education and Jewish Identity	Jewish Book Council Award	Sacred Strategies	Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman	The Alban Institute
2010	Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	To the End of the Land	David Grossman	Knopf
2010	Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	Remembering Survival	Christopher Browning	W. W. Norton & Company
2010	Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Rooster Prince of Breslov	Ann Redisch Stampler; Eugene Yelchin, illus.	Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2010	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot: The Complete Tisha B'Av Service with Commentary	Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik	Koren Publishers Jerusalem/Orthodox Union
2010	Outstanding Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture's Goldberg Prize	Rich Boy	Sharon Pomerantz	Twelve Books
2010	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	From Continuity to Contiguity	Dan Miron	Stanford University Press
2010	Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Yehuda Halevi	Hillel Halkin	Schocken Books/Nextbook Press
2010	Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Memoirs of a Grandmother	Pauline Wengeroff; edited, explicated and introduced by Shulamit Magnus	Stanford University Press
2010	Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	The Balfour Declaration	Jonathan Schneer	Random House
2010	Children's and Young Adult	Jewish Book Council Award	Under a Red Sky	Haya Leah Molnar	Frances Foster Books
2010	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Early Modern Jewry	David B. Ruderman	Princeton University Press
2010	Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone	Gal Beckerman	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2010	Lifetime Achievement Award	Jewish Book Council Award		Cynthia Ozick
2011	Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	Jerusalem: The Biography	Simon Sebag Montefiore	Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
2011	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education	Jonathan B. Krasner	Brandeis University Press
2011	Anthologies and Collections		Gender and Jewish History	Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds.	Indiana University Press
2011	Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus	Art Spiegelman	Pantheon/Random House
2011	Children's and Young Adult Literature		Deadly	Julie Chibbaro	Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
2011	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award	A Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living, Vol. 1	Rabbi David A. Teutsch	RRC Press
2011	Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	Until the Dawn's Light	Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green, trans.	Schocken Books/Random House
2011	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival	Hirsh Goodman	PublicAffairs Books
2011	Holocaust		Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice	Gerald Steinacher	Oxford University Press
2011	Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The Golem's Latkes	Adapted by Eric A. Kimmel; Aaron Jasinski, illus.	Marshall Cavendish
2011	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	The Choice to Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality	Rabbi Jeremy Kagan	Feldheim Publishers
2011	Outstanding Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture's Goldberg Prize	Boxer, Beetle	Ned Beauman	Bloomsbury USA
2011	Poetry		Wait	C.K. Williams	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Becoming the People of the Talmud; Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures	Talya Fishman	University of Pennsylvania Press
2011	Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine	Michelle U. Campos	Stanford University Press
2011	Visual Arts		Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention	Mason Klein	Yale University Press/The Jewish Museum
2011	Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth	Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky	The Jewish Publication Society
2011	Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams	Charles King	W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2012	Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden	Deborah Dash Moore, Howard B. Rock, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, Jeffrey S. Gurock	New York University Press
2012	Lifetime Achievement Award	Jewish Book Council Award		Eric R. Kandel
2012	American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life	Laura Arnold Leibman	Vallentine Mitchell
2012	Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame	Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds.	Twelve
2012	Biography, Autobiography, Memoir	The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane	Gerald Sorin	Indiana University Press
2012	Children’s and Young Adult Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Meet at the Ark at Eight	Ulrich Hub; Jörg Mühle, illus.	Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
2012	Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award	Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer	Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with Joel Segel; Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, fwd.	Jewish Lights Publishing
2012	Education and Jewish Identity	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools	Jeffrey S. Kress	Academic Studies Press
2012	Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	The Innocents	Francesca Segal	Voice/Hyperion
2012	History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Israel: A History	Anita Shapira	Brandeis University Press
2012	Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe	Laura Jockusch	Oxford University Press
2012	Illustrated Children’s Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	The Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other	Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Joani Keller Rothenberg, illus.	Jewish Lights Publishing
2012	Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson	Koren Talmud Bavli	Adin Steinsaltz	Koren Publishers Jerusalem
2012	Outstanding Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Goldberg Prize	The Sensualist: A Novella	Daniel Torday	Nouvella
2012	Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492	Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein	Princeton University Press
2012	Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam	Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2012	Women’s Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World	Elana Maryles Sztokman	The Hadassah Brandeis Institute, University Press of New England
2012	Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	The History of the Holocaust in Romania	Jean Ancel; Yaffah Murciano, trans.; Leon Volovici, ed.	University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem