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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
- Holocaust
- 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
Debut Fiction
Goldberg Prize
This prize is supported through a generous grant by the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation.
About this award
An author’s first published novel or short-story collection with Jewish content.
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| 2025 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2024 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2023 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2022 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2021 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2020 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2019 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2018 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2017 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2016 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2015 | Goldberg Prize |
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| 2014 | Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize |
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| 2013 | Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize |
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| 2012 | Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize |
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| 2011 | Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize |
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| 2010 | Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize |
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| 2002-2003 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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