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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Illustrated Children's Book
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Yiddish Poetry
| Year | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| 1981 | Jewish Book Council Award for Poetry | Louis SimpsonCavuare at the Funeral
Franklin Watts, Inc.
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| 1979 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Moishe SteingartIn Droisen fun der Velt (Outside of the World)
Shulsinger Brothers
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| 1976 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | M. HusidA Shoton Trogt Main Kroin (A Shadow Wears My Crown) |
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| 1973 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Meir StickerYiddishe Landshaft (Jewish Landscape)
Peretz Farlag
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| 1970 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Eliezer GreenbergElbiker Dorsht (Eternal Thirst) |
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| 1969 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Rachel H. KornDi Gnod fun Vort
Hemenora Publishing House
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| 1968 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Aaron ZeitlinLider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben (Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith)
World Federation of Bergen-Belsen
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| 1967 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Jacob GlatsteinA Yid fun Lublin (A Jew from Lublin)
CYCO
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| 1966 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Kadia MolodowskyLicht fun Dorenboin (A Light from the Thornbush)
Kium
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| 1965 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Aleph KatzDi Emesse Hasunah (Some Wedding)
CYCO
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| 1964 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Aaron Glanz-LeyelesAmerike un Ich (America and I)
Der Kval
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| 1963 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Chaim GradeDer Mensch fun Fier (The Man of Fire)
CYCO
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| 1962 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Israel EmiotNigun Eingehert (In Melody Absorbed)
Rochester Culture Council
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| 1961 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Joseph RubinsteinMegilath Russland (Scroll of Russia)
CYCO
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| 1960 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Ephraim AuerbachGildene Shekia (Golden Sunset)
Kium
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| 1959 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Benjamin I. BialostotzkyLid Tzu Lid (Poem to Poem)
CYCO
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| 1957 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Jacob GlatsteinFun Mein Gantzer Mei: 1919-1956 (Of All My Toil: Collected Poems 1919-1956)
Martin Press
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| 1955 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Alter AsselinLider fun a Midbarnik (Poems of a Hermit)
Culture Club of the Peretz Hirschbein Folk Theater
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| 1954 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Eliezer GreenbergBanachtiger Dialog (Night Dialogue)
Gezelten
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| 1953 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Mark SchweidThe Changelings: Collected Poems |
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| 1951 | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | ber LapinDer Fuller Krug (The Brimming Jug)
Ykuf
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