National Jewish Book Awards

2014

Category	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Adam D. Mendelsohn The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire NYU Press	Libby Garland After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921 – 1965 The University of Chicago Press
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	George Prochnik The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World Other Press	Gary Shteyngart Little Failure: A Memoir Random House Joseph Telushkin Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History HarperWave David Wolpe David: The Divided Heart Yale University Press
Children's and Young Adult Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Devra Lehmann Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker Namelos	Donna Jo Napoli Storm Simon and Schuster Carol Matas Tucson Jo Fictive Press Marjorie Agosín; Lee White, illus. I Lived on Butterfly Hill Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award	Shlomo M. Brody A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates Maggid	Nancy H. Wiener and Jo Hirschmann Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care Fortress Press Sara Davidson The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life’s Greatest Mystery HarperOne Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz The Soul of Jewish Social Justice Urim Publications
Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize	Stuart Rojstaczer The Mathematician’s Shiva Penguin Books	Susan Jane Gilman The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street Grand Central Publishing Eve Harris The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Grove Press, Black Cat Molly Antopol The UnAmericans: Stories W.W. Norton & Company Ezekiel Nieto Benzion You Shall Know Our Names CreateSpace
Education and Jewish Identity	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Elie Holzer with Orit Kent A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs Academic Studies Press	Naomi Schaefer Riley Got Religion?: How Churches, Mosques, and Synagogues Can Bring Young People Back Templeton Press
Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	David Bezmozgis The Betrayers Little, Brown and Company	Molly Antopol The UnAmericans: Stories W.W. Norton & Company Gina B. Nahai The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. Akashic Books Boris Fishman A Replacement Life HarperCollins Joshua Ferris To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel Little, Brown and Company
History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Princeton University Press	Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans. Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State BlueBridge Gary Philip Zola We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History Southern Illinois University Press
Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	James A. Grymes Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust — Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour Harper Perennial	Bettina Stangneth; Ruth Martin, trans. Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer Knopf David Silberklang Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District Yad Vashem Robert Rozett Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War Yad Vashem
Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Allison Ofanansky; Elsa Oriol, illus. The Patchwork Torah Kar-Ben Publishing	Jacqueline Jules Never Say a Mean Word Again: A Tale from Medieval Spain Wisdom Tales Jennifer Elvgren; Fabio Santomauro, illus. The Whispering Town Kar-Ben Publishing
Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	Ileene Smith, editorial director Jewish Lives Series Yale University Press
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider	Jay Goldmintz and Jonathan Sacks The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur Koren Publishers Jerusalem	Daniel Sperber On the Relationship of Mitzvot Between Man and His Neighbor and Man and His Maker Urim Publications Nancy H. Wiener and Jo Hirschmann Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care Fortress Press Richard Cohen Israel: Is It Good for the Jews? Simon & Schuster
Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel & Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds. Outside the Bible, 3‑Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture Jewish Publication Society	Gary Philip Zola We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History Southern Illinois University Press
Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds. Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700 – 1950 Stanford University Press	Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt Stanford University Press Francesca Bregoli Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform Stanford University Press Julia Phillips Cohen Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era Oxford University Press
Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Kathryn Hellerstein A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586 – 1987 Stanford University Press	Elisheva Baumgarten Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance University of Pennsylvania Press Sue Levi Elwell and Nancy Fuchs Kreimer Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of our Lives Wipf and Stock Publishers
Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Julia Phillips Cohen Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era Oxford University Press	Francesca Bregoli Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform Stanford University Press Simon Rabinovitch Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia Stanford University Press