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National Jewish Book Awards
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By Year
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By Category
- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
- Autobiography and Memoir
- Biography
- Book Club Award
- Children's Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
- Debut Fiction
- Education and Jewish Identity
- Fiction
- Food Writing & Cookbooks
- Hebrew Fiction in Translation
- History
- Holocaust
- Holocaust Memoir Award
- Mentorship Award
- Middle Grade Literature
- Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
- Poetry
- Scholarship
- Sephardic Culture
- Visual Arts
- Women's Studies
- Writing Based on Archival Material
- Young Adult Literature
- American Jewish History
- Biography and Autobiography
- Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life
- Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience
- Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature
- Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish History
- Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry
- Eastern European Studies
- Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry
- English Poetry
- Hebrew Poetry
- Illustrated Children's Book
- Israel
- JBC Modern Literary Achievement
- Jewish Education
- Jewish Family Literature
- Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Jewish History
- Jewish Thought
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Lifetime Achievement
- Literary Achivement Award
- Nonfiction
- Reference
- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs
- Sephardic Studies
- Special Recognition
- Translation of a Jewish Classic
- Translation of English Poetry
- Yiddish Language and Culture
- Yiddish Literature
- Yiddish Poetry
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| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award |
Norman ManeaOn Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
Grove Weidenfeld
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| Children's Literature | The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award |
Karen HesseLetters from Rivke
Henry Holt
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| Children's Picture Book | Marcia and Louis Posner Award |
Michael J. Rosen; Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, illus.Elijah's Angel
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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| Contemporary Jewish Life | Ronald Lauder Foundation Award |
William HelmreichHolocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America
Simon & Schuster
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| Fiction | The Arete Foundation Award |
A.B. YehoshuaMr. Mani
Doubleday
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award |
James E. YoungThe Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning
Yale University Press
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award |
Anita Shapira; William Templer, trans.Land and Power: The Zionists Resort to Force, 1887-1948
Oxford University Press
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| Jewish Folklore and Anthropology | The Raphael Patai Award |
Jerome R. MintzHasidic People: A Place in the New World
Harvard University Press
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award |
Naomi W. CohenJews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality
Oxford University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Anonymous Donor |
Susan Starr SeredWomen as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem
Oxford University Press
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| Scholarship | Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award |
Ephraim KanarfogelJewish Education and Society in the Middle Ages
Wayne State University Press
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award |
Jane S. GerberHistory of the Sephardic Experience
The Free Press
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| Visual Arts | Ita and Joshua Aber Award |
Sharon R. Keller, edThe Jews: A Treasury of Arts and Literature
Hugh Lauter Levin/Macmillan
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