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2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners

JBC Staff
January 27, 2021
From the Journal

The Real­ist

Basia Wino­grad
January 11, 2021
Chil­dren’s
The Lady with the Books: A Sto­ry Inspired by the Remark­able Work of Jel­la Lepman
Kathy Stinson, Marie Lafrance (illus.)
Non­fic­tion
The Last Mil­lion: Europe’s Dis­placed Per­sons from World War to Cold War
David Nasaw
Poetry

‘The Ran­dom Hand of Mercy’

Har­ri­et Shenkman
November 30, 2020
Essay

The Mik­vah

Daniela Weil
November 16, 2020
Fic­tion
The Diary of Ass­er Levy: First Jew­ish Cit­i­zen of New York
Daniela Weil
Chil­dren’s
Mau­rice and His Dictionary
Cary Fagan, Enzo Lord Mariano (illus.)
Non­fic­tion
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
Uri Shule­vitz
Essay

A Brief His­to­ry of Balkan Jews and the Sto­ry of the Syn­a­gogue of Zagreb

Michele Levy
August 3, 2020
Non­fic­tion
The Last Kings of Shang­hai: The Rival Jew­ish Dynas­ties That Helped Cre­ate Mod­ern China
Jonathan Kauf­man
Fic­tion
Hannah’s War
Jan Elias­berg
Non­fic­tion
And in the Vien­na Woods the Trees Remain
Elisabeth Asbrink, Saskia Vogel (trans.)  
Non­fic­tion
Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Anti­semitism, Pro­pa­gan­da, and the Dis­place­ment of Ukrain­ian Jewry
Sam Sokol
Non­fic­tion
Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls: The Great Jew­ish Refugee Cri­sis of the Sev­en­teenth Century
Adam Teller
Non­fic­tion
Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
Devi Mays

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