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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
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| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award | Elizabeth EhrlichMiriam's Kitchen
Viking
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award | Barbara RogaskyThe Golem
Holiday House
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| Children's Picture Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Kathryn Lasky; Kevin Hawkes, illus.Marven of the Great North Woods
Harcourt Brace
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Saul BellowThe Actual
Viking
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| Holocaust | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award | Saul FriedlanderNazi Germany and the Jews
HarperCollins
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award | Yaron EzrahiRubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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| Jewish Education | Leon Jolson Award | Joseph ReimerSucceeding in Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work
Jewish Publication Society
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Michael MeyerGerman-Jewish History in Moderm Times, Vol. 2: Emancipation and Acculturation: 1780-1871
Columbia University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Dorot Foundation Award | Rodger KamenetzStalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Mystical Masters
HarperSanFrancisco
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| Jewish-Christian Relations | Charles H. Revson Foundation Award | David I. KertzerThe Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Alfred A. Knopf
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| Lifetime Achievement | Cynthia Ozick |
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| Nonfiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Ruth GayUnfinished People
W.W. Norton
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| Scholarship | Anonymous Donor | David Weiss HalivniRevelation Restored
Westview Press
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| Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs | Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy | Claudia RodenThe Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
Alfred A. Knopf
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| Visual Arts | Anonymous Donor | Grace Cohen Grossman with Richard Eighme AhlbornJudaica at the Smithsonian: Cultural Politics as Cultural Model
Smithsonian Institution Press
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