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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
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- Eastern European Studies
- Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry
- English Poetry
- Hebrew Poetry
- Illustrated Children's Book
- Israel
- JBC Modern Literary Achievement
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- Translation of a Jewish Classic
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- Yiddish Language and Culture
- Yiddish Literature
- Yiddish Poetry
1985
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Biography | Dr. Moses Leo Gitelson Award | Maurice FriedmanMartin Buber's Life and Works: The Later Years, 1945-1965
E.P. Dutton
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| Children's Literature | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Gary Provost and Gail Levine-FriedusGood If It Goes
Bradbury Press
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| Children's Picture Book | Amy SchwartzMrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks
Jewish Publication Society
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| Fiction | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Frederick BuschInvisible Mending
David R. Godine
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | David S. WymanThe Abandonment of Jews: America and the Holocaust
Pantheon Books
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| Israel | Morris J. Kaplun Award | Joan PetersFrom Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab Jewish Conflict Over Palestine
Harper & Row
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| Jewish History | Bernard H. Marks Award | Naomi W. CohenEncounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914
Jewish Publication Society
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| Jewish Thought | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award | Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Lawrence Kaplan, trans.Halakhic Man
Jewish Publication Society
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| Scholarship | Julius Kushner Award | Levi Ben Gershon;Seymour Feldman, trans.The Wars of the Lord: Book One--Immortality of the Soul
Jewish Publication Society
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| Visual Arts | Leon L. Gildesgame Award | Evelyn M. CohenThe Rothschild Mahzor: Florence, 1492
The Library/ The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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| Yiddish Literature | The Workmen's Circle Award | Shea TenebaumFun Ash Un Fayer Iz Dayn Kroyn (From Ash and Fire Is Your Crown)
CYCO
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