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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 |
Marcel BenabouJacob, Menachem, and Maimon
University of Nebraska Press
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award |
Norman FinkelsteinHeeding the Call
Jewish Publication Society
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| Children's Picture Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award |
Francine Prose; Mark Podwal, illus.You Never Know
Greenwillow
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award |
Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green, trans.The Iron Tracks
Schocken
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| Holocaust | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award |
Marion A. KaplanBetween Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Oxford University Press
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| Israel | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award |
Nissim RejwanIsrael's Place in the Middle East
University Press of Florida
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| Jewish Education | Leon Jolson Award |
Adrianne Blank and Ron Wolfson, eds.First Fruit: A Whizin Anthology of Jewish Family Education
Whizin Institute
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| Jewish History | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award |
Miriam BodianHebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
Indiana University Press
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| Jewish Thought | Dorot Foundation Award |
Rachel AdlerEngendering Judaism
Jewish Publication Society
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| Jewish-Christian Relations | Charles H. Revson Foundation Award |
Susanna HeschelAbraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
University of Chicago Press
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| Lifetime Achievement |
Philip Roth |
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| Nonfiction | Jewish Book Council Award |
Leon WieseltierKaddish
Alfred A. Knopf
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| Scholarship | Anonymous Donor |
Reuven HammerEntering the High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to History, Prayers, and Themes
Jewish Publication Society
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| Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs | Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy |
Michele KleinA Time To Be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth
Jewish Publication Society
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| Sephardic Studies | Maurice Amado Foundation Award |
Robert BrodyThe Geonim of Babylonia
Yale University Press
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| Women's Studies | Barbara Dobkin Award |
Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds.Jewish Women in America
Routledge
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