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National Jewish Book Awards
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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
2016
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| American Jewish Studies | Celebrate 350 Award |
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| Anthologies and Collections | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir | The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg |
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| Book Club Award | The Debby and Ken Miller Award |
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice | Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award |
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| Debut Fiction | Goldberg Prize |
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| Education and Jewish Identity | In Memory of Dorothy Kripke |
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| Fiction | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award |
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| Holocaust | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| JBC Modern Literary Achievement | Jewish Book Council Award | Michael ChabonFor his general contribution to modern Jewish literature, including his most recent work,Moonglow(an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers). |
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| Jewish Book of the Year | Everett Family Foundation Award |
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| Modern Jewish Thought and Experience | Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider |
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| Poetry | Berru Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash |
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| Scholarship | Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award |
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| Sephardic Culture | Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy | Sarah Abrevaya SteinExtraterritorial Dreams: Europe Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
University of Chicago Press
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| Women's Studies | Barbara Dobkin Award | Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr, Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds.The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate
CCAR Press
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| Writing Based on Archival Material | The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award | Devin E. NaarJewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
Stanford University Press
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| Young Adult Literature | The Posner Award |
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