National Jewish Book Awards

2011

Category	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Jonathan B. Krasner The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education Brandeis University Press	Cornelia Wilhelm The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity 1843 – 1914 Wayne State University Press
Anthologies and Collections		Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. Gender and Jewish History Indiana University Press	Michah Gottlieb, ed. Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity & The Bible Brandeis University Press Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi, ed. and trans. Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology Vallentine Mitchell
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Art Spiegelman MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus Pantheon	Vivian Gornick Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life Yale University Press Tom Fields-Meyer Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son NAL Trade
Children's and Young Adult Literature		Julie Chibbaro Deadly: How Do You Catch an Invisible Killer? Atheneum Books for Young Readers	Tema N. Merback In the Face of Evil: Based on the Life of Dina Frydman Balbien Friesen Press Kathy Kacer To Hope and Back: The Voyage of the St. Louis Second Story Press Susan Goldman Rubin Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein Charlesbridge
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award	David A. Teutsch A Guide to Jewish Practice: Volume 1 — Everyday Living RRC Press	Mary L. Zamore, ed.; Eric H. Yoffie, fwd.; Nigel Savage, preface The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic CCAR Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Koren Sacks Rosh HaShana Mahzor Koren Publishers Jerusalem
Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize	Ned Beauman Boxer, Beetle Bloomsbury USA	Adam Schwartz A Stranger on the Planet Soho Press
Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green, trans. Until the Dawn’s Light Schocken Books	Mary Glickman One More River Open Road Integrated Media Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans. Life on Sandpaper Dalkey Archive Press, Lawrence Douglas The Vices Other Press
History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Hirsh Goodman The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival Public Affairs/Perseus Book Group	Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza Schocken Books/Nextbook Press Gershom Gorenberg The Unmaking of Israel Harper
Holocaust		Gerald Steinacher Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice Oxford University Press	Deborah E. Lipstadt The Eichmann Trial Schocken Books/Nextbook Press David Shneer Through Soviet-Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust Rutgers University Press
Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Eric A. Kimmel; Aaron Jasinski, illus. The Golem’s Latkes Marshall Cavendish	Richard Michelson; Zachary Pullen, illus. Lipman Pike: America’s First Home Run King Sleeping Bear Press Gloria Spielman; Manon Gauthier, illus. Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime Kar-Ben Publishing
Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	Simon Sebag Montefiore Jerusalem: The Biography Knopf
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider	Jeremy Kagan The Choice To Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality Feldheim Publishers	Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Koren Sacks Rosh HaShana Mahzor Koren Publishers Jerusalem Catherine Chatterley Disenchantment: George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz Syracuse University Press
Poetry		C.K. Williams Wait Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Rivka Miriam; Linda Stern Zisquit, trans. These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam Toby Press Adrienne Rich Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007 – 2010 W. W. Norton & Company
Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Talya Fishman Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures University of Pennsylvania Press	Elisheva Carlebach Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Michelle U. Campos Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Stanford University Press	Julia R. Lieberman, ed. Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora Brandeis University Press Olga Borovaya Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire Indiana University Press
Visual Arts	Jewish Book Council Award	Mason Klein Alias Man Ray Yale University Press/The Jewish Museum	Brooke Kamin Rapaport; Alan Brinkley et.al., contributors Houdini: Art and Magic Yale University Pres/The Jewish Museum Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust Yale University Press Evelyn M. Cohen, Sharon Liberman Mintz, and Emile G.L. Schrijver, eds. A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books
Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, eds. The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth The Jewish Publication Society	Sonia M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel, eds. Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During The Holocaust Brandeis University Press Eliyana R. Adler In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia Wayne State University Press Sandra E. Rapoport Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash KTAV
Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Charles King Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams W. W. Norton & Company