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Announcing the 72nd National Jewish Book Award Winners!

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Paula Chaiken | Jewish Book Council

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Paula Chaiken

Paula Chaiken has worked in a vari­ety of capac­i­ties in the Jew­ish world — teach­ing in reli­gious school, curat­ing at the Sper­tus Muse­um and fundrais­ing for the Fed­er­a­tion — for more than twen­ty years. She also runs a bou­tique pub­lic rela­tions con­sult­ing firm and enjoys read­ing all sorts of books with her three sons.
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Awe-some Days: Poems about the Jew­ish Holidays
Marilyn Singer; Dana Wulfekotte, illus.
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Mon­ster Bar Mitzvah
Josh Ander­son
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The Stars Will Be My Nightlight
Jen Halpern; Chiara Fedele, illus.
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“Nice” Jew­ish Girls
Julia Merberg; Georgia Rucker, illus.
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The Book of Elsie
Joanne Levy
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The Melody
Oded Burla, Assaf Benharroch (Illustrator), Ilana Kurshan (Translator)
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If I Swam with Jonah
Pam Moritz, MacKenzie Haley (Illustrator)
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Fish Out of Water
Joanne Levy
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I Am the Tree of Life: My Jew­ish Yoga Book
Rabbi Mychal Copeland, Andre Ceolin (illus.)
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What I Like About You
Marisa Kan­ter
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Kol Hakavod: Way to Go!
Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh (auth.), Sarah-Jayne Mercer (illus.)
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The Rab­bi Slurps Spaghetti 
Leslie Kimmelman; Sharon Davey, illus.
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Take­down
Laura Shovan
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Amer­i­can Golem: The New World Adven­tures of an Old World Mud Monster
Marc Lumer
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Regi­na Per­sist­ed: An Untold Story
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus.

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