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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Illustrated Children's Book
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- Translation of a Jewish Classic
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1981
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Children's Literature | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Leonard Everett FisherA Russian Farewell
Four Winds Press
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| Fiction | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Johanna KaplanO, My America
Harper & Row
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Randolph L. BrahamThe Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, 2 Vols.
Columbia University Press
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| Jewish History | Bernard H. Marks Award | Mark R. CohenJewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126
Princeton University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award | Isadore TwerskyIntroduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Yale University Press
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| Visual Arts | Leon L. Gildesgame Award | Yeshiva University MuseumPurim: The Face and the Mask
Yeshiva University Press
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| Yiddish Literature | The Workmen's Circle Award | Hyman BassPathways in Yiddish Literature
I.L. Peretz Publishing
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| Yiddish Poetry | Jewish Book Council Award for Poetry | Louis SimpsonCavuare at the Funeral
Franklin Watts, Inc.
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