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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
2004
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| Anthologies and Collections | Jewish Book Council Award | Ruth Pearl and Judea Pearl, eds.I am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl
Jewish Lights Publishing
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| Children's and Young Adult Literature | Jewish Book Council Award | Eric KimmelWonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion
Scholastic Books
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| Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice | Jewish Book Council Award | Sherri MandellThe Blessing of a Broken Heart
Toby Press
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award | Marjorie SandorPortrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime
Sarabande Books
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| Holocaust | Jewish Book Council Award | Christopher R. BrowningThe Origins of the Final Solution: Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942
University of Nebraska Press
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| Illustrated Children's Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award | As told to Michelle R. McCann and Luba Tryszynska-FrederickLuba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen
Tricycle Press
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| Jewish Book of the Year | Everett Family Foundation |
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| Jewish Education | Jewish Book Council Award | Barry HoltzTextual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice
Jewish Theological Seminary Press
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Steve OneyAnd the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Pantheon Books
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| Modern Jewish Thought and Experience | Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider | Daniel C. MattThe Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1
Stanford University Press
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| Scholarship | Jewish Book Council Award | Marc Brettler and Adelle Berlin, eds.The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, Torah, Nevi'im, Kethuvim
Oxford University Press
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| Visual Arts | Jewish Book Council Award | Frederic BrennerDiaspora: Homelands in Exile
HarperCollins
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| Women's Studies | Barbara Dobkin Award | Hannah Naveh, ed.Gender and Israeli Society: Women's Time: New Studies from Israel
Vallentine Mitchell
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