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New Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards & Open­ing of the 72nd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards 

June 22, 2022

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1944, is the longest-run­ning orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish literature.

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Is Super­man Cir­cum­cised?: The Com­plete Jew­ish His­to­ry of the World’s Great­est Hero
Roy Schwartz
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Mighty Inside
Sundee T. Frazier
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Sam­my Spi­der’s First ABC
Sylvia A. Rouss; Katherine Janus Kahn, illus.
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Yos­sel’s Journey
Kathryn Lasky; Johnson Yazzie, illus.
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The Desert Unicorn
Bonnie Grubman and Kerry Olitzky; Amberin Huq, illus.

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The Girl in the Mid­dle: Grow­ing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
Anais Granofsky
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Fic­tion
Loss of Mem­o­ry Is Only Tem­po­rary: Stories
Johan­na Kaplan
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Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
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Morn­ing­side Heights: A Novel
Joshua Henkin
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Recipes for a New Begin­ning: Tran­syl­van­ian Jew­ish Sto­ries of Life, Hunger, and Hope
Kinga Júlia Király
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Vol­ume Five

2022/5782
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