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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
- Fiction
- Food Writing & Cookbooks
- Hebrew Fiction in Translation
- History
- Holocaust
- Holocaust Memoir Award
- Mentorship Award
- Middle Grade Literature
- Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
- Poetry
- Scholarship
- Sephardic Culture
- Visual Arts
- Women's Studies
- Writing Based on Archival Material
- Young Adult Literature
- American Jewish History
- Biography and Autobiography
- 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
1996
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award | Binjamin WilkomirskiFragments
Schocken
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award | Howard SchwartzNext Year in Jerusalem
Viking
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Evan ZimrothGangsters
Crown Publishers
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van PeltAuschwitz: 1270 to the Present
W.W. Norton
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award | Geoffrey WheatcroftThe Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma
Addison, Wesley, Longman
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Moshe RosmanFounder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov
University of California Press
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| Jewish Thought | Dorot Foundation Award | Robert A. PaulMoses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth
Yale University Press
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| Jewish-Christian Relations | Charles H. Revson Foundation Award | Mark D. NanosThe Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Content of Paul's Letter
Fortress
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| Lifetime Achievement | Allen Ginsberg |
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| Nonfiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Jerusalem ReportShalom, Friend Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzchak Rabin
Newmarket Press
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| Scholarship | Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award | Marc SapersteinYour Voice Like A Ram's Horn: Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Teaching
Hebrew Union College Press
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award | David GitilitzSecrecy and Deceit: The True Religion of the Crypto-Jews
Jewish Publication Society
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| Visual Arts | Anonymous Donor | Neil FolbergAnd I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues
Aperture
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