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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
Lifetime Achievement
| Year | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| 2024 | Irving Yitzchak Greenberg |
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| 2012 | Jewish Book Council Award | Eric R. Kandel |
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| 2010 | Jewish Book Council Award | Cynthia Ozick |
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| 2009 | Jewish Book Council Award | Ruth Gruber
Schocken
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| 2007 | Rabbi Harold S. Kushner |
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| 2000 | Elie Wiesel |
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| 1999 | Herman Wouk |
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| 1998 | Philip Roth |
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| 1997 | Cynthia Ozick |
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| 1996 | Allen Ginsberg |