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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Jewish Book of the Year
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- Translation of a Jewish Classic
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| Children's Literature | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Barbara CohenKing of the Seventh Grade
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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| Children's Picture Book | Barbara Cohen; Michael J. Deraney, illus.Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
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| Fiction | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Robert GreenfieldTemple
Summit Books
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Irving Abella and Harold TroperNone Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers/ Random
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| Israel | Morris J. Kaplun Award | J. Robert MoskinAmong Lions: The Battle for Jerusalem, June 5-7, 1967
Arbor House
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| Jewish History | Bernard H. Marks Award | Yosef Hayim YerushalmiZakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
University of Washington Press
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| Jewish Thought | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award | Bernard SeptimusHispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: The Career and Controversies of Ramah
Harvard University Press
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| Scholarship | Sarah H. Kushner Memorial Award | Jeremy CohenThe Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism
Cornell University Press
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| Visual Arts | Leon L. Gildesgame Award | Andrew S. Ackerman and Susan L. BraunsteinIsrael in Antiquity: From David to Herod
The Jewish Museum
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| Yiddish Literature | The Workmen's Circle Award | Chaim Spilberg and Yaacov ZippeKanader Tidisher Zamlbukh (Canadian Jewish Anthology)
National Committeee for Yiddish at the Canadian Jewish Congress
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