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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
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- 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
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- 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
1973
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Children's Literature | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Johanna ReissThe Upstairs Room
Thomas Y. Cromwell/Bantam
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| Fiction | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Robert KotlowitzSomewhere Else
Charterhouse
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Aaron ZeitlinVeiterdike Lider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben un Yanish Korshaks Letzte Gange (More Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith and Yanush Korshak's Last Walk)
Bergen Belson Memorial Press
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| Jewish History | Bernard H. Marks Award | Arthur J. ZuckermanA Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900
Columbia University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award | Samuel SandmelTwo Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible
Wayne State University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award | Elie WieselSouls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters
Random House/ Summit
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| Yiddish Poetry | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Meir StickerYiddishe Landshaft (Jewish Landscape)
Peretz Farlag
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