National Jewish Book Awards

1999

Category	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
Autobiography and Memoir	Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award	Steven Sadow, ed. King David's Harp University of New Mexico Press
Children's Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Sandy Asher, ed. With All My Heart, With All My Mind Simon & Schuster
Children's Picture Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Simms Taback Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Viking/ Penguin Putnam, Inc.
Eastern European Studies	Ronald S. Lauder Award	Israel Bartal and Antony Polonsky, eds. Polin Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Fiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Steve Stern The Wedding Jester Graywolf Press
Holocaust	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Inga Clendinnen Reading the Holocaust Cambrige University Press
Israel	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award	Bernard Lewis The Multiple Identities of the Middle East Schocken
Jewish Education	Leon Jolson Award	Carol K. Ingall Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award	Emily D. Bilski, ed. Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture University of California Press/ The Jewish Museum
Jewish Thought	Dorot Foundation Award	Norman Lamm The Religious Thought of Hasidism Ktav Publishing House
Jewish-Christian Relations	Charles H. Revson Foundation Award	Paul Fredriksen Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity Alfred A. Knopf
Lifetime Achievement		Herman Wouk
Nonfiction	Jewish Book Council Award	Zvi Kolitz Yosi Rakover Talks to God Pantheon Books
Reference	Anonymous Donor	Eli Yassif The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning Indiana University Press
Scholarship	Anonymous Donor	Jeremy Cohen Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity University of California Press
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs	Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy	David Gitilitz and Linda Kay Davidson A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews St. Martin's Press
Sephardic Studies	Maurice Amado Foundation Award	Renne Levine Melammed Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile Oxford University Press
Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Renee Levine Melammed Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Cyrpto-Jewish Women of Castile Oxford University Press
Yiddish Language and Culture	The Forward Association Award	Marek Web and Alter Kacyzne Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research