Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and the win­ners of the 73rd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards as we cel­e­brate their accomplishments! 

The cel­e­bra­tion will fea­ture remarks from a selec­tion of the 73rd win­ners in addi­tion to spe­cial guests of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Each tick­et sup­ports Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s efforts to enrich, edu­cate, and strength­en the com­mu­ni­ty through lit­er­a­ture. Pur­chase tick­ets here. To pay with a check, please email Evie Saphire-Bern­stein at evie@​jewishbooks.​org

We can’t wait to see you there! This cel­e­bra­tion will include a strolling sup­per (sta­tions and passed hors d’oeu­vres), fol­lowed by a seat­ed awards pre­sen­ta­tion and dessert reception.

The cer­e­mo­ny will be host­ed by authors Ali­son Rose Green­berg and Bess Kalb.

For lead­er­ship and cor­po­rate spon­sor­ship infor­ma­tion for the 73rd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award cel­e­bra­tion event, please con­tact evie@​jewishbooks.​org.

73rd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners

• Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Jew­ish Book of the Year Award: Time’s Echo: The Sec­ond World War, the Holo­caust, and the Music of Remem­brance by Jere­my Eich­ler (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Men­tor­ship Award In Hon­or of Car­olyn Star­man Hes­sel: Altie Karper
• Amer­i­can Jew­ish Stud­ies Cel­e­brate 350 Award: Walk­ers in the City: Jew­ish Street Pho­tog­ra­phers of Mid­cen­tu­ry New York by Deb­o­rah Dash Moore (Three Hills / Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Auto­bi­og­ra­phy & Mem­oir The Krauss Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Simon & Shu­lamith (Sofi) Gold­berg: Hap­pi­ly: A Per­son­al His­to­ry-with Fairy Tales by Sab­ri­na Orah Mark (Ran­dom House)
• Biog­ra­phy Award in Mem­o­ry of Sara Beren­son Stone: Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Mur­der, and the Hijack­ing of His­to­ry by Ben­jamin Balint (W. W. Nor­ton & Company)
• Book Club The Miller Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Helen Dunn Wein­stein and June Keit Miller: The Heav­en and Earth Gro­cery Store by James McBride (Pen­guin Ran­dom House)
• Children’s Pic­ture Book Tra­cy and Lar­ry Brown Fam­i­ly Award: Two New Years by Richard Ho, Lynn Scur­field, illus. (Chron­i­cle Books)
• Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life & Prac­tice Myra H. Kraft Memo­r­i­al Award: Lov­ing Our Own Bones: Dis­abil­i­ty Wis­dom and the Spir­i­tu­al Sub­ver­sive­ness of Know­ing Our­selves Whole by Julia Watts Belser (Bea­con Press)
• Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize: All-Night Phar­ma­cy by Ruth Madievsky (Cat­a­pult)
• Edu­ca­tion & Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Award in Mem­o­ry of Dorothy Krip­ke: Israel 201: Your Next-Lev­el Guide to the Mag­ic, Mys­tery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land by Joel Chas­noff and Ben­ji Lovitt (Gefen Pub­lish­ing House)
• Fic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award: The Heav­en and Earth Gro­cery Store by James McBride (River­head Books, an imprint of Pen­guin Ran­dom House)
• Food Writ­ing & Cook­books Jane and Stu­art Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award: Kib­b­itz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafe­te­ria by Mar­cia Brick­er Halperin (Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Hebrew Fic­tion in Trans­la­tion Jane Weitz­man Award: Oper­a­tion Beth­le­hem by Yariv Inbar, Dalit Shmueli, trans. (Gen­era Ven­tures, Ltd.)
• His­to­ry Ger­rard and Ella Berman Memo­r­i­al Award: Time’s Echo: The Sec­ond World War, the Holo­caust, and the Music of Remem­brance by Jere­my Eich­ler (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Holo­caust Award in Mem­o­ry of Ernest W. Michel: Time’s Echo: The Sec­ond World War, the Holo­caust, and the Music of Remem­brance by Jere­my Eich­ler (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Holo­caust Mem­oir Award in Mem­o­ry of Dr. Charles and Ethel Weitz­man: The Ghost Tat­too by Tony Bernard (Citadel Press / Kens­ing­ton Books)
• Mid­dle Grade Lit­er­a­ture Award: The Dubi­ous Pranks of Shaindy Good­man by Mari Lowe (Levine Querido)
• Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought & Expe­ri­ence Dorot Foun­da­tion Award in Mem­o­ry of Joy Unger­lei­der: The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pan­demics from the Bible to COVID-19 Jere­my Brown (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Poet­ry Berru Award in Mem­o­ry of Ruth and Bernie Wein­flash: When There Was Light by Car­lie Hoff­man (Four Way Books)
• Schol­ar­ship Nahum M. Sar­na Memo­r­i­al Award: Frac­tured Tablets: For­get­ful­ness and Fal­li­bil­i­ty in Late Ancient Rab­binic Cul­ture by Mira Bal­berg (Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Press)
• Sephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award in Mem­o­ry of Becky Levy: Kan­ti­ka by Eliz­a­beth Graver (Met­ro­pol­i­tan Books)
• Women’s Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award: Between Two Worlds: Jew­ish War Brides After the Holo­caust by Robin Judd (Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na Press)
• Writ­ing Based on Archival Mate­r­i­al The JDC-Her­bert Katz­ki Award: Between Two Worlds: Jew­ish War Brides After the Holo­caust by Robin Judd (Uni­ver­si­ty of North Car­oli­na Press)
• Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture Award: The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold Balz­er + Bray/​HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Inau­gu­rat­ed in 1950, the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards is the longest-run­n­ing North Amer­i­can awards pro­gram of its kind and is rec­og­nized as the most pres­ti­gious. The Awards are intend­ed to rec­og­nize authors, and encour­age read­ing, of out­stand­ing Eng­lish-lan­guage books of Jew­ish inter­est. Learn more about the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards here.

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is a non­prof­it ded­i­cat­ed to pro­mot­ing the read­ing, writ­ing, and pub­lish­ing of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture. Engag­ing and edu­cat­ing authors and read­ers across the globe, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s goal is to enrich the con­nec­tion to Jew­ish life and iden­ti­ty through lit­er­a­ture and to cre­ate con­ver­sa­tions with gen­er­a­tions of read­ers across our Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties. Read more about Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and its pro­grams and resources here.

Cer­e­mo­ny Hosts

Ali­son Rose Green­berg is a screen­writer and the author of Maybe Once, Maybe Twice and Bad Luck Brides­maid. She lives in Atlanta but is quick to say she was born in New York City, as any nice Jew­ish girl would be. While attend­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia, Ali­son took her first screen­writ­ing class and fell head over heels. A jour­ney from writ­ing led to mar­ket­ing jobs, before com­ing full-cir­cle back to her first love. Ali­son speaks flu­ent rom-com, lives for 90’s WB dra­mas, cries to Tay­lor Swift, and is a proud sin­gle mom to her two incred­i­ble kids, two cats, and one poor­ly-trained dog.

Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed com­e­dy writer and the best­selling author of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She wrote for eight years on Jim­my Kim­mel Live! and has writ­ten for the Emmy Awards, the Acad­e­my Awards, and the 2020 Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion. She is the head writer and exec­u­tive pro­duc­er of the WGA Award-nom­i­nat­ed Year­ly Depart­ed, an Ama­zon Com­e­dy Spe­cial, and is cur­rent­ly adapt­ing Nobody Will Tell You This But Me into a fea­ture film with Sight Unseen Pic­tures. She lives with her hus­band and two chil­dren in New York.

Event Spon­sors

A spe­cial thank you to our spon­sors for their gen­er­ous sup­port of the 73rd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Celebration:

“Books” Pre­sent­ing Spon­sors

Elisa Spun­gen Bild­ner and Rob Bild­ner
Joy and Alan Green­berg
Deb­by and Ken Miller
Jane and Stu­art Weitzman

“Words” Spon­sor

Stacey and Mark Levy

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