75th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards Luncheon

Thursday, March 26, 2026
12–2pm

Touro Uni­ver­si­ty

Come join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and Touro Uni­ver­si­ty in an inter­ac­tive pan­el dis­cus­sion on Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture with some of the 75th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners, mod­er­at­ed by Dr. Alan Kadish, Pres­i­dent of Touro University. 

The 75th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners that will be in atten­dance are:

  • Pamela S. Nadell — win­ner of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Stud­ies cat­e­go­ry for Anti­semitism, an Amer­i­can Tra­di­tion 
  • Yishay Ishi Ron and Yardenne Greenspan — win­ners of the Book Club and and Hebrew Fic­tion in Trans­la­tion cat­e­gori­ies for Dog
  • Ali­son Gold­berg and Seli­na Alko — win­ners of the Children’s Pic­ture Book cat­e­go­ry for The Remem­ber­ing Candle
  • Zee­va Bukai — win­ner of the Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg cat­e­go­ry for The Anato­my of Exile
  • Miri­am Udel — win­ner of the Edu­ca­tion & Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty cat­e­go­ry for Mod­ern Jew­ish World­mak­ing Through Yid­dish Chil­dren’s Literature
  • Elis­sa Bem­po­rad — win­ner of the His­to­ry cat­e­go­ry for Jews in the Sovi­et Union: A His­to­ry: Rev­o­lu­tion, Civ­il War, and New Ways of Life
  • Dani James — win­ner of the Holo­caust Mem­oir cat­e­go­ry for the trans­la­tion of: Return to the Place I Nev­er Left
  • Jan­ice Shapiro — win­ner of the Mid­dle Grade Lit­er­a­ture cat­e­go­ry for Hono­ria: A For­tu­itous Friendship
  • Lawrence Gross­man — win­ner of the Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought & Expe­ri­ence Dorot Foun­da­tion cat­e­go­ry for Liv­ing in Both Worlds: Mod­ern Ortho­dox Judaism in the Unit­ed States, 1945 – 2025
  • Debra Kaplan and Eli­she­va Car­lebach — win­ners of the Schol­ar­ship and Women’s Stud­ies cat­e­gories for A Woman Is Respon­si­ble for Every­thing: Jew­ish Women in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
  • Eliz­a­beth E. Imber — win­ner for the Writ­ing Based on Archival Mate­r­i­al cat­e­go­ry for Uncer­tain Empire: Jews, Nation­al­ism, and the Fate of British Imperialism
  • Eugene Yelchin — win­ner of the Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture cat­e­go­ry for: I Wish I Did­n’t Have to Tell You This: A Graph­ic Memoir

The event is free and in-per­­­son, but you have to reg­is­ter! Click here or the link above to reg­is­ter today!