National Jewish Book Awards

2010

Category	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menahem Mendel Schneerson Princeton University Press	Rebecca Kobrin Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora Indiana University Press
Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Judith Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin Cambridge Guide to Jewish History Cambridge University Press	Derek Rubin, ed. Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging Derek Rubin, ed.
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Ruth Harris Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion and the Scandal of the Century Metropolitan Books	Yehuda Avner; Martin Gilbert, intro. The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership The Toby Press Abigail Green Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero The Belknap Press at Harvard University Press Jules Feiffer Backing into Forward: A Memoir Nan A. Talese
Children's and Young Adult Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Haya Leah Molnar Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania Frances Foster Books	Anne Dublin; Qin Leng, illus. The Orphan Rescue Second Story Press Elaine Alphin An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank Carolrhoda Books
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Jewish Book Council Award	Martin Fletcher Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation Thomas Dunne Books	Judith Shulevitz The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time Random House
Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize	Sharon Pomerantz Rich Boy Twelve Books	Ghita Schwarz Displaced Persons Harper Collins
Education and Jewish Identity	Jewish Book Council Award	Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman Sacred Strategies The Alban Institute	Jack Wertheimer, ed. Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century Brandeis University Press
Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	David Grossman Jessica Cohen To the End of the Land Alfred A. Knopf	Julie Orringer The Invisible Bridge Alfred A. Knopf Adam Levin The Instructions McSweeney’s Philip Roth Nemesis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	David B. Ruderman Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History Princeton University Press	Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex Jewish Publication Society Yehuda Avner; Martin Gilbert, intro. The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership The Toby Press
Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	Christopher R. Browning Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp W.W. Norton & Company	Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans. The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Guy Miren, ed. The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust Yad Vashem
Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Ann Redisch Stampler; Eugene Yelchin, illus. The Rooster Prince of Breslov Clarion Books	Sarah Gershman; Kristina Swarner, illus. Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book EKS Heidi Smith Hyde; Johanna van der Steere, illus. Feivel’s Flying Horses Kar-Ben Publishing
Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	Gal Beckerman When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lifetime Achievement	Jewish Book Council Award	Cynthia Ozick
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider	Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik The Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot: The Complete Tisha B'Av Service with Commentary Koren Publishers Jerusalem/Orthodox Union	David Hazony The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life Scribner
Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Dan Miron From Continuity to Contiguity Stanford University Press	Robert Alter The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes W. W. Norton & Company Jeremy Stolow Orthodox By Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the Art Scroll Revolution University of California Press Hillel Halkin Yehuda Halevi Schocken Books/Nextbook Press
Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Hillel Halkin Yehuda Halevi Schocken Books/Nextbook Press	Marc David Baer The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks Stanford University Press
Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century Stanford University Press	Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson, eds. A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America Rutgers University Press Lori Hope Lefkovitz In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Jonathan Schneer The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Random House	Noah Feldman Scorpions: The Battles and the Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices Twelve Books