National Jewish Book Awards

Writing Based on Archival Material

Year	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
2025	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Elizabeth E. Imber Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism Stanford University Press	Michael Rom Brazilian Belonging: Jewish Politics in Cold War Latin America Stanford University Press Laura Hobson Faure Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust Yale University Press
2024	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Paris Papamichos Chronakis The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule Stanford University Press	Polly Zavadivker A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in World War I Oxford University Press
2023	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Robin Judd Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust The University of North Carolina Press	Oren Kessler Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict Rowman & Littlefield
2022	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Laura Hobson Faure A “Jewish Marshall Plan” The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France Indiana University Press	Laura Almagor Beyond Zion:The Jewish Territorialist Movement The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press Nick Underwood Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France Indiana University Press
2021	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Jaclyn Granick International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War Cambridge University Press	Federica Francesconi Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation University of Pennsylvania Press
2020	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Magda Teter Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth Harvard University Press	Marina Rustow The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue Princeton University Press Ori Yehudai Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II Cambridge University Press
2019	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.) A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust New York University Press	Mikhal Dekel Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey W. W. Norton & Company
2018	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Rebecca Erbelding Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe Doubleday — Penguin Random House	Shira Klein Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism Cambridge University Press
2017	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Ellie R. Schainker Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817 – 1906 Stanford University Press	Gilad Ben-Nun Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law I.B.Tauris
2016	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Devin E. Naar Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece Stanford University Press	Benjamin R. Gampel Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response 1391 – 1392 Cambridge University Press
2015	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Ethan B. Katz The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France Harvard University Press	Lisa Moses Leff The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust Oxford University Press
2014	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Julia Phillips Cohen Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era Oxford University Press	Francesca Bregoli Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform Stanford University Press Simon Rabinovitch Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia Stanford University Press
2013	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Elissa Bemporad Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk Indiana University Press	Nina S. Spiegel Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine Wayne State University Press
2012	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Jean Ancel; Yaffah Murciano, trans.; Leon Volovici, ed. The History of the Holocaust in Romania University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem	Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed. City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden NYU Press
2011	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Charles King Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams W. W. Norton & Company
2010	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Jonathan Schneer The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Random House	Noah Feldman Scorpions: The Battles and the Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices Twelve Books
2009	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Yitzhak Arad; Ora Cummings, trans. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem
2008	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Martin Dean Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust Cambridge University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum