Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards

Israel

Year Endowment Winner Finalists
2000 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Tom Segev

One Palestine, Complete
Metropolitan Books
1999 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Bernard Lewis

The Multiple Identities of the Middle East
Schocken
1998 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Nissim Rejwan

Israel's Place in the Middle East
University Press of Florida
1997 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Yaron Ezrahi

Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1996 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma
Addison, Wesley, Longman
1995 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Glenn Frankel

Beyond the Promised Land
Simon & Schuster
1994 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Steven Zipperstein

Exclusive Report: Ahad Ha'Am and the Origins of Zionism
University of California Press
1993 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Anita Shapira; William Templer, trans.

Land and Power: The Zionists Resort to Force, 1887-1948
Oxford University Press
1992 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Itamar Rabinovitch

The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations
Oxford University Press
1991 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Sergio Minerbi; Arnold Schwartz, trans.

The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925
Oxford University Press
1990 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Harris O. Schoenberg

A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO
Shapolsky
1989 Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award

Haim Chertok

Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound
Fordham University Press
1988 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Shabtai Teveth

Ben Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886-1948
Houghtin Mifflin
1987 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Samuel Heilman

A Walker in Jerusalem
Summit Books
1986 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Steven L. Spiegel

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy From Truman to Reagan
University of Chicago Press
1985 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Joan Peters

From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab Jewish Conflict Over Palestine
Harper & Row
1984 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Peter Grose

Israel in the Mind of America
Alfred A. Knopf/Schocken
1983 Morris J. Kaplun Award

J. Robert Moskin

Among Lions: The Battle for Jerusalem, June 5-7, 1967
Arbor House
1982 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Howard M. Sachar

Egypt and Israel
Richard Marek Publishers
1980 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Emanuel Levy

The Habima--Israel's National Theater 1917-1977: A Study of Cultural Nationalism
Columbia University Press
1979 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Ruth Gruber

Raquela: A Woman of Israel
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan/Signet/New American Library
1978 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Hillel Halkin

Letters to an American Jewish Friend
Jewish Publication Society
1977 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Howard M. Sachar

A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
Alfred A. Knopf
1976 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Melvin I. Urofsky

American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust
Doubleday
1975 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Arnold Krammer

The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1953
University of Illinois Press
1974 Morris J. Kaplun Award

Isaiah Friedman

The Question of Palestine, 1914-1978: British Jewish-Arab Relations
Schocken