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National Jewish Book Awards
Biography
In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone
Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Sara Berenson Stone (1915 – 2018) was a devoted philanthropist and voracious reader. One of a handful of Jewish students at Duke University, she graduated in 1935 and moved to New Orleans, where she began her eighty-year long advocacy for Jewish causes. A prolific reader of fiction and nonfiction, Mrs. Stone had a particular interest in biographies pertaining to the Jewish experience. This award honors writers whose work has elucidated the lives of those, past and present, who exemplify what it means to live, work, and think as a Jew. By the high quality of their writing, our award winners have given their subjects and themselves an honored place in our literary canon.
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| 2025 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2024 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2023 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2022 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2021 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2020 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2019 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 2018 | In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone |
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| 1986 | Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award | Jehuda ReinharzChaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader
Oxford University Press
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| 1985 | Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award | Maurice FriedmanMartin Buber's Life and Works: The Later Years, 1945-1965
E.P. Dutton
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| 1984 | Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award | Dan KurzmanBen-Gurion: Prophet of Fire
Simon & Schuster
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