National Jewish Book Awards

Education and Jewish Identity

Year	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
2025	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Miriam Udel Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature Princeton University Press
2024	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Emmanuel Acho Noa Tishby Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew Simon Element / Simon & Schuster	Norman H. Finkelstein Saying No to Hate: Overcoming Antisemitism in America The Jewish Publication Society Aviva Klompas Stand-Up Nation: Israeli Resilience in the Wake of Disaster Wicked Son
2023	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Joel Chasnoff and Benji Lovitt Israel 201: Your Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mystery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land Gefen	Yair Ettinger Frayed: The Disputes Unraveling Religious Zionists Toby Press Laura Yares Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America NYU Press
2022	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Sivan Zakai My Second-Favorite Country NYU Press	Corinne E. Blackmer Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism Wayne State University Press Samantha A. Vinokor-Meinrath #antisemitism: Coming of Age During the Resurgence of Hate ABC-CLIO
2021	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Simon J. Bronner Jewish Cultural Studies Wayne State University Press
2020	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Sarah Bunin Benor Jonathan B. Krasner Sharon Avni Hebrew Infusion Rutgers University Press	Uri Adoni The Unstoppable Startup: Mastering Israel’s Secret Rules of Chutzpah Harper Collins Leadership
2019	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Deborah E. Lipstadt Antisemitism: Here and Now Schocken	Sarah Hurwitz Here All Along: A Reintroduction to Judaism Spiegel & Grau Naomi Seidman Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2018	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Barry Scott Wimpfheimer The Talmud: A Biography Princeton University Press	Pini Dunner Mavericks, Mystics & False Messiahs: Episodes from the Margins of Jewish History Koren Publishers Jerusalem Rabbi Amy Scheinerman The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 1 & 2 University of Nebraska Press / The Jewish Publication Society Scott A. Shay In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism Post Hill Press
2017	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Steven Weitzman The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age Princeton University Press	Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, eds. Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens Academic Studies Press
2016	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Mike Uram Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations Jewish Lights	Aaron J. Hahn Tapper Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities University of California Press
2015	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Ted Merwin Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli NYU Press
2014	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Elie Holzer with Orit Kent A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs Academic Studies Press	Naomi Schaefer Riley Got Religion?: How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back Templeton Press
2013	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools Brandeis University Press	Alex Sinclair Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism Ben Yehuda Press Dr. Ron Wolfson Relational Judaism: Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community Jewish Lights Publishing
2012	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Jeffrey S. Kress Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools Academic Studies Press	Susan Handelman Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples University of Washington Press Goldie Milgram and Ellen Frankel, eds. Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning Reclaiming Judaism Ora Horn Prouser Esau’s Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Special Needs Ben Yehuda Press
2010	Jewish Book Council Award	Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman Sacred Strategies The Alban Institute	Jack Wertheimer, ed. Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century Brandeis University Press
2008		Robert Louis Goodman, Paul Flexner, and Linda Dale Bloomberg, eds. What We Now Know About Jewish Education: Perspectives on Research for Practice Torah Aura
2006	Jewish Book Council Award	Faydra Shapiro Building Jewish Roots McGill-Queen's University Press