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National Jewish Book Awards
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- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
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- Eastern European Studies
- Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry
- English Poetry
- Hebrew Poetry
- Illustrated Children's Book
- Israel
- JBC Modern Literary Achievement
- Jewish Education
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- 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
2005
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| American Jewish History | Jewish Book Council Award | Jerome KarabelThe Chosen: The Hidden History of Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
Houghton Mifflin
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| Anthologies and Collections | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Biography and Autobiography | Jewish Book Council Award | Masha GessenEster and Ruzya: How my Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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| Children's and Young Adult Literature | Jewish Book Council Award | Pinna Moed KassReal Time
Clarion Books
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| Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice | Jewish Book Council Award | Scott-Martin KosofskyThe Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year
Harper SanFrancisco
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| Eastern European Studies | Ronald S. Lauder Award |
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Holocaust | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Illustrated Children's Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award | Uri ShulevitzThe Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century
Farrar Straus and Giroux
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| Jewish Book of the Year | Everett Family Foundation |
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| Jewish Family Literature | In Memory of Dorothy Kripke |
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Mark MazowerSalonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950
Knopf
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| Modern Jewish Thought and Experience | Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider |
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| Poetry | Jewish Book Council Award | Gerald SternEverything is Burning: Poems
W.W. Norton
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| Reference | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Scholarship | Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award | Elliott R. WolfsonLanguage, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination
Fordham University Press
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| Sephardic Culture | Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy |
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| Visual Arts | Jewish Book Council Award | Emily D. Blski and Emily Braun, eds.Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation
The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press
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| Women's Studies | Barbara Dobkin Award |
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