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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
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- Food Writing & Cookbooks
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- American Jewish History
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- Children's and Young Adult Literature
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- Contemporary Jewish Life
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- 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
1979
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Children's Literature | Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award | Irene NarelJoshua: Fighter for Bar Kochba
Akiba Press
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| Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought | Bernard H. Marks Award | Salo W. Baron |
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| Fiction | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Gloria GoldreichLeah's Journey
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Berkeley Publishing
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Michael SelzerDeliverance Day: The Last Hours at Dachau
J.B. Lippincott
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| Israel | Morris J. Kaplun Award | Ruth GruberRaquela: A Woman of Israel
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan/Signet/New American Library
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| Jewish Thought | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award | Robert GordisLove and Sex: A Modern Jewish Perspective
Women's League for Conservative Judaism/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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| Translation of a Jewish Classic | Rabbi Jacob Freedman Award | William M. BrinnerNissim Ben Jacob Ibn Shahin's An Elegant Composition Concerning Relief after Adversity
Yale University Press
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| Yiddish Poetry | Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award | Moishe SteingartIn Droisen fun der Velt (Outside of the World)
Shulsinger Brothers
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