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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
2000
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award | Cyrus H. GordonA Scholar's Odyssey
Society of Biblical Literature
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award | Howard SchwartzThe Day the Rabbi Disappeared
Viking
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| Children's Picture Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Laura Krauss Melmed; David Slonim, illus.Moishe's Miracle
HarperCollins
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Philip RothThe Human Stain
Houghtin Mifflin
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| Holocaust | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award | Evan BukeyHitler's Austria
University of North Carolina Press
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award | Tom SegevOne Palestine, Complete
Metropolitan Books
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | SegevOne Palestine, Complete
Metropolitan Books
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| Jewish Thought | Dorot Foundation Award | Jonathan SacksA Letter in the Scroll
The Free Press
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| Jewish-Christian Relations | Charles H. Revson Foundation Award | Susan ZuccottiUnder His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
Yale University Press
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| Lifetime Achievement | Elie Wiesel |
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| Nonfiction | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Reference | Anonymous Donor | Michael Terry, ed.Reader's Guide to Judaism
Fitzroy Dearborn
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| Scholarship | Anonymous Donor | Ruth R. WisseThe Modern Jewish Canon
The Free Press
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| Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs | Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy | Rivka Dorfman and Ben-ZionSynagogues Without Jews
Jewish Publication Society
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award | Daniel M. SwetschinskiReluctant Cosmopolitans
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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| Women's Studies | Barbara Dobkin Award | Susan Martha KahnReproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Contraception in Israel
Duke University Press
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| Yiddish Language and Culture | The Forward Association Award | Jeffrey VeidlingerThe Moscow State Yiddish Theater
Indiana University Press
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