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National Jewish Book Awards - Winners List | Book Title - | Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture | | Author - | Julian Levinson | | Publisher - | Indiana University Press | | Category - | American Jewish Studies | | Endowed By - | Celebrate 350 Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Marie Syrkin:Values Beyond the Self | | Author - | Carole Kessner | | Publisher - | Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England | | Category - | Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir | | Endowed By - | In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | The Diary of Laura's Twin | | Author - | Kathy Kacer | | Publisher - | Second Story Press | | Category - | Children’s and Young Adult Literature | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey | | Author - | Rabbi Harold Schulweis | | Publisher - | Jewish Lights | | Category - | Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | What We Now Know About Jewish Education | | Author - | Roberta Louis Goodman, Paul A. Flexner, Linda Dale Bloomberg, eds. | | Publisher - | Torah Aura Productions | | Category - | Education and Jewish Identity | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | The Torah: A Women's Commentary | | Author - | Dr. Tamara Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss | | Publisher - | URJ Press | | Category - | Everett Family Foundation | | Endowed By - | Jewish Book of the Year Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | | Author - | Peter Manseau | | Publisher - | Free Press | | Category - | Fiction | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War | | Author - | Benny Morris | | Publisher - | Yale University Press | | Category - | History | | Endowed By - | Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews | | Author - | Father Patrick Desbois | | Publisher - | Palgrave Macmillan | | Category - | Holocaust | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | The Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story | | Author - | Eric A. Kimmel; Katya Krenina, illus. | | Publisher - | Holiday House | | Category - | Illustrated Children’s Books | | Endowed By - | Louis Posner Memorial Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Genesis-the Book with Seventy Faces: A guide for the Family | | Author - | Esther Takac | | Publisher - | Pitspopany Press | | Category - | Jewish Family Literature | | Endowed By - | In Memory of Dorothy Kripke | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust | | Author - | David Patterson | | Publisher - | Syracuse University Press | | Category - | Modern Jewish Thought & Experience | | Endowed By - | Dorot Foundation Award In memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900 | | Author - | Adam Shear | | Publisher - | Cambridge University Press | | Category - | Scholarship | | Endowed By - | Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Greece- A Jewish History | | Author - | K.E Fleming | | Publisher - | Princeton University Press | | Category - | Sephardic Culture | | Endowed By - | Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book | | Author - | Aliza Lavie | | Publisher - | Spiegel & Grau | | Category - | Women's Studies | | Endowed By - | Barbara Dobkin Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust | | Author - | Martin Dean | | Publisher - | Cambridge University Press | | Category - | Writing Based On Archival Material | | Endowed By - | The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award | | Year - | 2008 |
| Book Title - | The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period | | Author - | Steven T. Katz, ed. | | Publisher - | Cambridge Univeristy Press | | Category - | Reference | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America | | Author - | Edward K. Kaplan | | Publisher - | Yale University Press | | Category - | American Jewish Studies | | Endowed By - | Celebrate 350 Award | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel | | Author - | Murray Zimiles | | Publisher - | Brandeis University Press | | Category - | Visual Arts | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Inventing Jewish Ritual | | Author - | Vanessa Ochs | | Publisher - | Jewish Publication Society | | Category - | Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare Stat | | Author - | Gotz Aly | | Publisher - | Henry Holt and Company | | Category - | Holocaust | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | A Guest in my Own Country: A Hungarian Life | | Author - | George Konrad | | Publisher - | Other Press | | Category - | Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir | | Endowed By - | In Memory of Simon Goldberg & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | My People's Prayer Book Series | | Author - | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, ed. | | Publisher - | Jewish Lights Publishing | | Category - | Modern Jewish Thought & Experience | | Endowed By - | Dorot Foundation Award In memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 | | Author - | Peter Cole, ed. | | Publisher - | Princeton University Press | | Category - | Poetry | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Even Higher | | Author - | Richard Ungar | | Publisher - | Tundra Books of Northern New York | | Category - | Illustrated Children's Books | | Endowed By - | Louis Posner Memorial Award | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | A Pigeon and a Boy | | Author - | Meir Shalev | | Publisher - | Schocken Books | | Category - | Fiction | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel | | Author - | Marv Wolfman, Mario Ruiz, and William Rubin | | Publisher - | Nachshon Press | | Category - | Children's and Young Adult Literature | | Endowed By - | | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation | | Author - | Tova Hartman | | Publisher - | Brandeis University Press | | Category - | Women's Studies | | Endowed By - | Barbara Dobkin Award | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two-Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose And Poetry, Two-Volume Set | | Author - | Maxim D. Shrayer. ed. | | Publisher - | M.E. Sharpe Publishers | | Category - | Eastern European Studies | | Endowed By - | Ronald S. Lauder Award | | Year - | 2007 |
| Book Title - | Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft | | Author - | Michael Makovsky | | Publisher - | Yale University Press | | Category - | History | | Endowed By - | Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award | | Year - | 2007 |
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