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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
- Autobiography and Memoir
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- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought
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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
1989
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award | Nathan SharanskyFear No Evil
Random House
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| Children's Literature | Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award | Jane YolenThe Devil's Arithmetic
Viking Kestrel
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| Children's Picture Book | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | Barbara Diamond Goldin; Seymour Chwast, illus.Just Enough is Plenty: A Hannukah Tale
Viking Kestrel
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| Contemporary Jewish Life | Muriel and Phil Berman Award | Jonathan KaufmanBroken Alliance: the Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America
Charles Scribner's Sons
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| Fiction | William and Janice Epstein Award | Aharon AppelfeldThe Immortal Bartfuss
Weidenfeld
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Christopher SimpsonBlowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award | Haim ChertokStealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound
Fordham University Press
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Michael A. MeyerResponse to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
Oxford University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Anonymous Donor | Michael RosenackCommandments and Concerns: Jewish Religious Education in Secular Society
Jewish Publication Society
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| Scholarship | Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award | Moshe IdelKabbalah: New Perspectives
Yale University Press
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| Visual Arts | Leon L. Gildesgame Memorial Award | Leonard GoldA Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts
New York Public Library/ Oxford University Press
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