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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
- Book Club Award
- Children's Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
- Debut Fiction
- Education and Jewish Identity
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- Food Writing & Cookbooks
- Hebrew Fiction in Translation
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- Holocaust Memoir Award
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- Middle Grade Literature
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- Scholarship
- Sephardic Culture
- Visual Arts
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- Writing Based on Archival Material
- Young Adult Literature
- American Jewish History
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- Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life
- Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience
- 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
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| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award | Henry Morganthau IIIMostly Morganthaus: A Family History
Ticknor and Fields
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| Children's Literature | The Once Upon A Time Bookstore Award | Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin, trans.The Man From the Other Side
Houghtin Mifflin
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| Children's Picture Book | Marcia and Louis Posner Award | Michelle EdwardsChicken Man
HarperCollins
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| Contemporary Jewish Life | Ronald Lauder Foundation Award | Lynn DavidmanTradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
University of California Press
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| Fiction | The Arete Foundation Award | Nathan Shaham; Dalya Bilu, trans.The Rosendorf Quartet |
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Dalia OferEscaping the Holocaust: Illefal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939-1944
Oxford University Press
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award | Itamar RabinovitchThe Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations
Oxford University Press
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Marion A. KaplanThe Making of the Jewish Middle Class. Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany
Oxford University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Anonymous Donor | Yosef Hayim YerushalmiFreud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable
Yale University Press
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| Scholarship | Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award | Steven D. FraadeFrom Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre Deuteronomy
State Unversity of New York Press
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award | Ross BrannThe Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain
The Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Visual Arts | Ita and Joshua Aber Award | Norman L. Kleeblatt and Susan Chevlowe, eds.Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945
The Jewish Museum/ Indiana University Press
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