National Jewish Book Awards

American Jewish Studies

Year	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
2024	Celebrate 350 Award	Shaul Kelner A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews NYU Press	Ronnie A. Grinberg Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals Princeton University Press
2023	Celebrate 350 Award	Deborah Dash Moore Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York Three Hills	Sandra Fox The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Stanford University Press
2022	Celebrate 350 Award	Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York Princeton University Press	Josh Lambert The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature Yale University Press Adam D. Mendelsohn Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army NYU Press
2021	Celebrate 350 Award	Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg Yale University Press	Rachel B. Gross Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice NYU Press Laura Arnold Leibman Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family Oxford University Press
2020	Celebrate 350 Award	Laura Arnold Leibman The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects Bard Graduate Center	Ayala Fader Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in a Digital Age Princeton University Press Laurel Leff Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe Yale University Press Scott D. Seligman The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City Potomac Books
2019	Celebrate 350 Award	Kenneth D. Wald The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism Cambridge University Press	Emily Sigalow American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change Princeton University Press
2018	Celebrate 350 Award	Jack Wertheimer The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today Princeton University Press	Eric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press Daniel Judson Pennies for Heaven: The History of American Synagogues and Money Brandeis Samira K. Mehta Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States The University of North Carolina Press
2017	Celebrate 350 Award	Shari Rabin Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America NYU Press	Samuel C. Heilman Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America University of California Press Sara Yael Hirschhorn City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement Harvard University Press Laura B. Rosenzweig Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles NYU Press
2016	Celebrate 350 Award	Roger Horowitz Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food Columbia University Press	Zev Eleff Who Rules the Synagogue?: Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism Oxford University Press Alan Robert Ginsberg The Salome Ensemble Syracuse University Press
2015	Celebrate 350 Award	Adam S. Ferziger Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism Wayne State University Press	Hasia R. Diner Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way Yale University Press Leah Garrett Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel Northwestern University Press Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell Lincoln and the Jews: A History st. martin’s press
2014	Celebrate 350 Award	Adam D. Mendelsohn The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire NYU Press	Libby Garland After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921 – 1965 The University of Chicago Press
2013	Celebrate 350 Award	Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman FDR and the Jews Belknap Press of Harvard University Press	M. M. Silver Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography Syracuse University Press Andrea Most Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America NYU Press
2012	Celebrate 350 Award	Laura Arnold Leibman Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life Vallentine Mitchell	Jonathan D. Sarna When General Grant Expelled the Jews Schocken Books/Nextbook Press Tobias Brinkmann Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago The University of Chicago Press
2011	Celebrate 350 Award	Jonathan B. Krasner The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education Brandeis University Press	Cornelia Wilhelm The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity 1843 – 1914 Wayne State University Press
2010	Celebrate 350 Award	Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menahem Mendel Schneerson Princeton University Press	Rebecca Kobrin Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora Indiana University Press
2009	Celebrate 350 Award	Hasia R. Diner We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945 – 1962 New York University Press
2008	Celebrate 350 Award	Julian Levinson Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture Indiana University Press
2007	Celebrate 350 Award	Edward K. Kaplan Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940 – 1972 Yale University Press
2006	Celebrate 350 Award	Esther Schor Emma Lazarus Nextbook/Schocken