Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
The Research Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections Division (RAS) of the Association of Jewish Libraries just announced the winners of the 2008 AJL Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards.
Reference Award:
Gershon David Hundert. 2008. The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press.
Bibliography Award:
Binyamin Richler, Malachi Beit-Arié, and Nurit Pasṭernaḳ. 2008. Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: Catalogue. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana.
Bibliography Honorable Mention:
Edith Lubetski and Meir Lubetski. 2008. The Book of Esther: A Classified Bibliography. Bible bibliographies. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.