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National Jewish Book Awards
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By Year
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- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
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- 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
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- Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Jewish History
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- 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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| Autobiography and Memoir | Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award |
Malkah Shapiro; Nehemia Polen, trans.The Rebbe's Daughter
Jewish Publication Society
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| Children's Literature | Jewish Book Council Award |
Norman FinkelsteinForged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish American Experience
Jewish Publication Society
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| Children's Picture Book | Louis Posner Memorial Award |
Sylvia Rouss; Holly Harmon, illus.The Littlest Pair
Pitspopany Press
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| Eastern European Studies | Ronald S. Lauder Award |
Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov, eds.Stalin's Secret Pogrom
Yale University Press in association with the U.S. Holocaust Museum
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| Fiction | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| Holocaust | Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award |
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| Jewish Education | Leon Jolson Award |
Hanan AlexanderReclaiming Goodness
University of Notre Dame Press
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| Jewish Thought | Dorot Foundation Award |
Samuel HeilmanWhen A Jew Dies
University of California Press
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| Jewish-Christian Relations | Charles H. Revson Foundation Award |
Michael AlexanderJazz Age Jews
Princeton University Press
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| Nonfiction | Jewish Book Council Award |
David Lieber and Jules Harlow. eds.Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary
Rabbinical Assembly, United Synagogue of conservative Judaism & Jewish Publication Society
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| Reference | Anonymous Donor |
Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; Geoffrey Wigoder, consulting editorThe Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, Before and During the Holocaust, 3 Volumes
New York University Press & Yad Vashem
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| Scholarship | Anonymous Donor |
Seth SchwartzImperialism and Jewish Society
Princeton University Press
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| Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs | Maurice Amado Foundation Award |
Steven M. LowensteinThe Jewish Cultural Tapestry
Oxford University Press
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| Sephardic Studies | Jewish Book Council Award |
Judah Alharizi, David Simha Segal, trans. and explicationThe Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization
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| Yiddish Language and Culture | The Forward Association Award |
Miriam WeinsteinYiddish: A Nation of Words
Steerforth Press
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