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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Translation of a Jewish Classic
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Jewish History
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| 2005 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Mark MazowerSalonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950
Knopf
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| 2004 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Steve OneyAnd the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Pantheon Books
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| 2002-2003 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award |
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| 2002 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | James CarrollConstantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
Houghtin Mifflin
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| 2000 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | SegevOne Palestine, Complete
Metropolitan Books
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| 1999 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Emily D. Bilski, ed.Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture
University of California Press/ The Jewish Museum
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| 1998 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Miriam BodianHebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
Indiana University Press
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| 1997 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Michael MeyerGerman-Jewish History in Moderm Times, Vol. 2: Emancipation and Acculturation: 1780-1871
Columbia University Press
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| 1996 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Moshe RosmanFounder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov
University of California Press
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| 1995 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Jenna Weissman JoselitThe Wonders of America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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| 1994 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Leonard DinnersteinAnti-Semitism in America
Oxford University Press
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| 1993 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Naomi W. CohenJews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality
Oxford University Press
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| 1992 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Marion A. KaplanThe Making of the Jewish Middle Class. Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany
Oxford University Press
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| 1991 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Elisheva CarlebachThe Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbataian Controversies
Columbia University Press
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| 1990 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Eli LederhendlerThe Road to Modern Jewish Politics
Oxford University Press
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| 1989 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Michael A. MeyerResponse to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
Oxford University Press
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| 1988 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Robert ChazanEuropean Jewry and the First Crusade
University of California Press
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| 1987 | Bernard H. Marks Award | David BialePower and Powerless in Jewish History
Schocken
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| 1986 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Robert LiberlesReligious Conflict in Social Context. The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in Frankfurt am Main, 1838-1877
Leo Baeck Institute/Greenwood Press
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| 1985 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Naomi W. CohenEncounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1984 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Michael StanislwaskiTsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1983 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Yosef Hayim YerushalmiZakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
University of Washington Press
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| 1982 | Bernard H. Marks Award | David RudermanThe World of a Renaissance Jew
Hebrew Union College
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| 1981 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Mark R. CohenJewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126
Princeton University Press
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| 1980 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Todd M. EndelmanThe Jews of Georgian England, 1774-1830
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1978 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Celia S. HellerOn the Edge of Destruction
Columbia University Press
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| 1977 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Irving HoweWorld Of Our Fathers
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Bantam
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| 1976 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai WingThe Myth of the Jewish Race
Charles Scribner's Sons
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| 1974 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Bernard D. WeinrybThe Jews of Poland. A Social and Economic History, 1100 to 1800
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1973 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Arthur J. ZuckermanA Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900
Columbia University Press
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| 1963 | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Non-Fiction Award | Moses RischinThe Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914
Harvard University Press
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