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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
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- Food Writing & Cookbooks
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- Holocaust Memoir Award
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- Middle Grade Literature
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- Scholarship
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- Visual Arts
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- American Jewish History
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- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life
- Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience
- Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature
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- 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
1994
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award |
Howard A. ShackA Spy in Canaan: My Secret Life as a Jewish-American Businessman Spying for Israel in Arab Lands
Birch Lane Press, Carol Publishing Group
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| Children's Literature | The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award |
Adele GerasGolden Windows and Other Scenes of Jerusalem
Willa Perlman/ HarperCollins Childrens Books
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| Children's Picture Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award |
Sheldon Oberman; Ted Lewin, illus.The Always Prayer Shawl
Boyd Mills Press
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| Contemporary Jewish Life | Ronald Lauder Foundation Award |
Jack WertheimerA People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America
Basic Books
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| Fiction | The Arete Foundation Award |
Alan IslerThe Prince of West End Avenue
Bridge Works Publishing Co.
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award |
Christopher R. BrowningOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
HarperCollins
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award |
Steven ZippersteinExclusive Report: Ahad Ha'Am and the Origins of Zionism
University of California Press
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| Jewish Education | Anonymous Donor |
Howard Deitcher and Abraham J. Tannenbaum, eds.Studies in Jewish Education: Educational Issues and Classical Jewish Texts, Volume 5
Magnes Press of Hebrew University
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| Jewish Folklore and Anthropology | The Raphael Patai Award |
Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. SilvermanFolklore of the Sephardic Jews, volume III
University of California Press
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award |
Leonard DinnersteinAnti-Semitism in America
Oxford University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Anonymous Donor |
Michael FishbaneThe Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism
University of Washington Press
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| Scholarship | Sarah H. and Julius Kushner Memorial Award |
Menachem ElonJewish Law: History, Sources, Principles
Jewish Publication Society
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award |
Michael LaskierNorth African Jewry in the Twentieth Century
New York University Press
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| Visual Arts | Ita and Joshua Aber Award |
Joseph and Yehudit ShadurJewish Papercuts: A History and Guide
Gefen Publishing House/ Judah Magnes Museum
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