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National Jewish Book Awards
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By Year
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By Category
- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
- Autobiography and Memoir
- Biography
- Book Club Award
- Children's Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
- Debut Fiction
- Education and Jewish Identity
- Fiction
- Food Writing & Cookbooks
- Hebrew Fiction in Translation
- History
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- Holocaust Memoir Award
- Mentorship Award
- Middle Grade Literature
- Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
- Poetry
- Scholarship
- Sephardic Culture
- Visual Arts
- Women's Studies
- Writing Based on Archival Material
- Young Adult Literature
- American Jewish History
- Biography and Autobiography
- Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life
- Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience
- Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature
- Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish History
- Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry
- Eastern European Studies
- Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry
- English Poetry
- Hebrew Poetry
- Illustrated Children's Book
- Israel
- JBC Modern Literary Achievement
- Jewish Education
- Jewish Family Literature
- Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Jewish History
- Jewish Thought
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Lifetime Achievement
- Literary Achivement Award
- Nonfiction
- Reference
- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs
- Sephardic Studies
- Special Recognition
- Translation of a Jewish Classic
- Translation of English Poetry
- Yiddish Language and Culture
- Yiddish Literature
- Yiddish Poetry
Children’s Literature
About this award
A book on a Jewish theme from infancy to age 11. If the award is given to an illustrated children’s book, the award will be shared by the author and illustrator.| Year | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| 2018 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2017 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2016 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2015 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2002-2003 | Jewish Book Council Award | Ilene CooperJewish Holidays All Year Round
Abrams Books
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| 2001 | Jewish Book Council Award | Norman FinkelsteinForged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish American Experience
Jewish Publication Society
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| 2000 | Jewish Book Council Award | Howard SchwartzThe Day the Rabbi Disappeared
Viking
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| 1999 | Jewish Book Council Award | Sandy Asher, ed.With All My Heart, With All My Mind
Simon & Schuster
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| 1998 | Jewish Book Council Award | Norman FinkelsteinHeeding the Call
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1997 | Jewish Book Council Award | Barbara RogaskyThe Golem
Holiday House
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| 1996 | Jewish Book Council Award | Howard SchwartzNext Year in Jerusalem
Viking
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| 1995 | Jewish Book Council Award | Gita AlmagorUnder the Domin Tree
Simon & Schuster
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| 1994 | The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award | Adele GerasGolden Windows and Other Scenes of Jerusalem
Willa Perlman/ HarperCollins Childrens Books
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| 1993 | The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award | Karen HesseLetters from Rivke
Henry Holt
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| 1992 | The Once Upon A Time Bookstore Award | Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin, trans.The Man From the Other Side
Houghtin Mifflin
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| 1991 | Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award | Nava Semel; Seymour Simckes, trans.Becoming Gershona
Viking Penguin
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| 1990 | Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award | Lois LowryNumber the Stars
Houghtin Mifflin
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| 1989 | Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award | Jane YolenThe Devil's Arithmetic
Viking Kestrel
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| 1988 | Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award | Sonia LevitinThe Return
Atheneum
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| 1987 | Shapolsky's Great Judaica Books Award | Eileen Bluestone ShermanMonday in Odessa
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1986 | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Linda AtkisonThe Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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| 1985 | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Gary Provost and Gail Levine-FriedusGood If It Goes
Bradbury Press
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| 1984 | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Chaya M. BursteinThe Jewish Kids Catalog
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1983 | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Barbara CohenKing of the Seventh Grade
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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| 1982 | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Kathryn LaskyThe Night Journey
Frederick Warne
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| 1981 | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Leonard Everett FisherA Russian Farewell
Four Winds Press
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| 1980 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Arnost LustigDita Saxova
Harper & Row
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| 1979 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Irene NarelJoshua: Fighter for Bar Kochba
Akiba Press
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| 1978 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Milton MeltzerNever to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
Harper & Row
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| 1977 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Chaya M. BursteinRifka Grows Up
Bonim Books/ Hebrew Publishing Co.
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| 1976 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Shirley MilgrimHaym Salomon: Liberty's Son
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1975 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Bea StadtlerThe Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance
Behrman House/ Anti-Degamation League
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| 1974 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Yuri SuhlUncle Misha's Partisans
Four Winds Press
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| 1973 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Johanna ReissThe Upstairs Room
Thomas Y. Cromwell/Bantam
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| 1972 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Sulamith Ish-KishorThe Master of Miracle: A New Novel of the Golem
Harper & Row
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| 1971 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Sonia LevitinJourney to America
Atheneum
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| 1970 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Gerald GottliebThe Story of Masadah, by Yigael Yadin: Retold for Young Readers
Random House
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| 1970 | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Charlie May SimonMartin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time
E.P. Dutton
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| 1967 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Meyer LevinThe Story of Israel
G.P. Putnam's Series
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| 1966 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Betty SchecterThe Dreyfus Affair
Houghtin Mifflin
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| 1965 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Dov Peretz Elkins and Azriel EisenbergWorld Lost and Found
Abelard-Schuman
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| 1964 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Sulamith Ish-KishorA Boy of Old Prague
Pantheon Books/ Scholastic Inc.
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| 1963 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Josephine KammReturn to Freedom
Abelard-Schuman
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| 1962 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Sadie Rose WeilersteinTen and a Kid
Doubleday
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| 1961 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Regina TorDiscovering Israel
Random House
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| 1960 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Sylvia RothchildKeys to a Magic Door: Isaac Leib Peretz
Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy/ Jewish Publication Society
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| 1959 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Lloyd AlexanderBorder Hawk: Agusut Bondi
Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy/ Jewish Publication Society
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| 1958 | Pioneer Women's Hayim Greenberg Memorial Award | Naomi Ben Asher and Hayim LeafJewish Junior Encyclopedia
Shengold Publishers
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| 1955 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Nora Benjamin KubieKing Solomon's Navy
Harper and Brothers
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| 1954 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Deborah PessinThe Jewish People: Book Three
United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education
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| 1953 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award | Lillian S.FreehofStories of King David
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1952 | Issac Sigel Memorial Award |
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