National Jewish Book Awards

2009

Category	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Hasia R. Diner We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945 – 1962 New York University Press
Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman, eds. Rethinking European Jewish History The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	In Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Dina Porat The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner Stanford University Press
Children's and Young Adult Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Kim Ablon Whitney The Other Half of Life Alfred A. Knopf
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Jewish Book Council Award	Daniel Gordis Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End John Wiley and Sons
Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	Joseph Kertes Gratitude Thomas Dunne Books
History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Beryl Satter Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America Metropolitan Books
Holocaust	Jewish Book Council Award	Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 – 1945, Volume 1 Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Ellen Frankel; Avi Katz, illus. JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible Jewish Publication Society
Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation	Melvin I. Urofsky Louis D. Brandeis: A Life Pantheon Books
Jewish Family Literature	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed. Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays Jewish Publication Society
Lifetime Achievement	Jewish Book Council Award	Ruth Gruber Schocken
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider	Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks Covenant and Conversation, A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis: The Book of Beginnings Maggid Books (Koren Publishers) with the OU Press
Poetry	Jewish Book Council Award	Alicia Ostriker The Book of Seventy University of Pittsburgh Press
Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Judy Klitsner Subversive Sequels in the Bible Jewish Publication Society
Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Rachel Shabi We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands Walker & Co.
Visual Arts	Jewish Book Council Award	Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed. Action/Abstraction: Pollack, De Kooning, and American Art, 1950 – 1976 The Jewish Museum/Yale University Press
Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Ayala Fader Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up The Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn Princeton University Press
Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Yitzhak Arad; Ora Cummings, trans. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem