National Jewish Book Awards

Anthologies and Collections

Year	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
2019		Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) University of Washington Press	Ethan B Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel (editors) Colonialism and the Jews Indiana University Press Eric J. Sundquist Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader State University of New York Press (SUNY Press) Gil Troy; Natan Sharansky, fwd. The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow The Jewish Publication Society
2016	Jewish Book Council Award	Jacques Picard, Jacques M. Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal, eds. Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made Princeton University Press	Edward C. Bernstein Love Finer Than Wine: The Writings of Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker CreateSpace Sylvia Barack Fishman Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Brandeis Ezra Glinter Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward W. W. Norton & Company
2015	Jewish Book Council Award	Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Indiana University Press	Alan Rosen The Literature of the Holocaust Cambridge University Press Victoria Aarons, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction Wayne State University Press
2013	Jewish Book Council Award	Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh, eds. 1929: Mapping the Jewish World NYU Press	Rabbi Menachem Genack, ed. Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership Sterling Ethos Alvin Rosenfeld Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives Indiana University Press Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds. Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives Indiana University Press
2012	Jewish Book Council Award	Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds. Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame Twelve	Gad Freudenthal, ed. Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures Cambridge University Press Jonathan Goldstein I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow Pintail Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn, eds. Jewish Theology and World Religions The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2011		Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Gender and Jewish History Indiana University Press	Michah Gottlieb, ed. Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity & The Bible Brandeis University Press Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi, ed. and trans. Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology Vallentine Mitchell
2010	Jewish Book Council Award	Judith Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin Cambridge Guide to Jewish History Cambridge University Press	Derek Rubin, ed. Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging Derek Rubin, ed.
2009	Jewish Book Council Award	Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman, eds. Rethinking European Jewish History The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2007		Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels and Mark Weitzman, eds. Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal Vallentine Mitchell
2006	Jewish Book Council Award	Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Writing a Modern Jewish History Yale University Press/The Jewish Museum
2005	Jewish Book Council Award	Derek Rubin, ed. Who We Are: On Being (And Not Being) a Jewish American Writer Schocken Books
2004	Jewish Book Council Award	Ruth Pearl and Judea Pearl, eds. I am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl Jewish Lights Publishing
2002-2003	Jewish Book Council Award	David Biale Cultures of the Jews Schocken Books