This is a list of the winners of the National Jewish Book Award by category. The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature. [1] [2] [3] They are awarded by the Jewish Book Council, a New-York based non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Jewish literature since 1944. [2] [4] [5] [6]
The awards in the American Jewish History category, Celebrate 350, are presented to authors or editors of non-fiction books about the Jewish experience in North America. [7]
Title | Author | Year | References |
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton | Jerome Karabel | 2005 | [7] |
Emma Lazarus | Esther Schor | 2006 | |
Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 | Edward K. Kaplan | 2007 | |
Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture | Julian Levinson | 2008 | |
We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 | Hasia R. Diner | 2009 | [7] [8] |
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson | Samuel Heilman | 2010 | [7] |
The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education | Jonathan B. Krasner | 2011 | |
Messianism, secrecy and mysticism : a new interpretation of early American Jewish life | Laura Arnold Leibman | 2012 | |
FDR and the Jews | Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman | 2013 | [7] [9] |
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire | Adam D. Mendelsohn | 2014 | [7] |
Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism | Adam S. Ferziger | 2015 | |
Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food | Roger Horowitz | 2016 | |
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America | Shari Rabin | 2017 | |
The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today | Jack Wertheimer | 2018 | [7] [10] |
The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism | Kenneth D. Wald | 2019 | [7] |
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects | Laura Arnold Leibman | 2020 | [11] [12] |
A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg | Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper | 2021 | [13] |
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York | Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers | 2022 | [14] |
Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York | Deborah Dash Moore | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Anthologies and Collections category are presented to editors of books of essays, biographies, short stories, or other collected works by one or more authors. [16]
The National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections category was not awarded in 2014, 2017, 2018 and there was only one winner for the 2002-2003 period.
Title | Author | Year | |
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Cultures of the Jews: A New History | David Biale | 2002 - 2003 | [16] |
I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl | Judea Pearl | 2004 | |
Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer | Derek Rubin | 2005 | |
Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett | 2006 | |
Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal | Michael Fineberg | 2007 | |
Rethinking European Jewish History | Jeremy Cohen | 2009 | |
The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture | Judith Reesa Baskin | 2010 | |
Gender and Jewish History | Marion A. Kaplan | 2011 | |
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame | Franklin Foer | 2012 | |
1929: Mapping the Jewish World | Hasia R. Diner | 2013 | |
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America | Alice Nakhimovsky | 2015 | |
Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made | Jacques Picard | 2016 | |
What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew | Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg | 2019 | [16] [17] |
The awards in the Autobiography and memoir category, the Krauss Family Awards in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg, are presented to authors of a family history, autobiography, personal memoir either of a Jew or family of being significantly related to the Jewish experience. [18]
There was no winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Autobiography and Memoir category for 1987, 1988, 2002 to 2006. [18]
Title | Author | Year | |
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Ben-Gurion : Prophet of Fire [18] | Dan Kurzman [19] [18] | 1984 | |
Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Later Years, 1945-1965 [18] | Maurice Friedman [18] | 1985 | |
Chaim Weizmann, The Making of a Zionist Leader [20] [18] | Jehuda Reinharz [21] [20] [18] | 1986 | |
Fear No Evil [22] [18] | Natan Sharansky [23] [24] [25] [18] | 1989 | |
From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 [18] | Lucy S. Dawidowicz [26] [27] [18] | 1990 | |
Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections on a Harlem Childhood [18] | Irving Louis Horowitz [28] [18] | 1991 | |
Mostly Morganthaus: A Family History [18] | Henry III Morganthau [18] | 1992 | |
On clowns: The dictator and the artist : essays [29] [30] [18] | Norman Manea [29] [31] [18] | 1993 | |
A Spy in Canaan: My Life As a Jewish-American Businessman Spying for Israel in Arab Lands [18] | Howard H. Schack [18] | 1994 | |
In This Dark House: A Memoir [18] | Louise Kehoe [18] | 1995 | |
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood [32] [33] [18] | Binjamin Wilkomirski [32] [34] [18] | 1996 | |
Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir [18] | Elizabeth Ehrlich [18] | 1997 | |
Jacob, Menachem und Mimoun. Ein Familienepos [35] [18] | Marcel Benabou [18] | 1998 | |
King David's harp : autobiographical essays by Jewish Latin American writers [18] | Stephen A. Sadow [18] | 1999 | |
A Scholar's Odyssey (Biblical Scholarship in North America) [18] | Cyrus H. Gordon [18] | 2000 | |
The Rebbe's Daughter [18] | Malkah Shapiro [18] | 2001 | |
A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life [36] [37] | George Konrad [38] [39] [37] | 2007 | |
Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self [37] | Carole S. Kessner [37] | 2008 | |
The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner [37] | Dina Porat [37] | 2009 | |
The Man On Devil’s Island [37] | Ruth Harris [37] | 2010 | |
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [40] [41] [37] | Art Spiegelman [41] [37] | 2011 | |
Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane (The Modern Jewish Experience) [37] | Gerald Sorin [37] | 2012 | |
An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir [42] [43] [37] | Phyllis Chesler [44] [37] | 2013 | |
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World [37] | George Prochnik [37] | 2014 | |
After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring [37] | Joseph Polak [37] | 2015 | |
But You Did Not Come Back: A Memoir [45] [46] [47] [37] | Marceline Loridan-Ivens [45] [48] [37] | 2016 | |
The Choice [37] | Edith Eger [37] | 2017 | |
My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace [18] | Ehud Barak [18] | 2018 | |
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love [49] [50] [18] | Dani Shapiro [51] [18] | 2019 | |
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains | Ariana Neumann | 2020 | |
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir | Sherry Turkle | 2021 | |
Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood | Stephen Mills | 2022 | |
Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales | Sabrina Orah Mark | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Biography category, In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone, are presented to authors of a biography that is significantly related to the Jewish experience. [52]
There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category between 1986 and 2018. [52]
Title | Author | Year | |
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Ben-Gurion : Prophet of Fire [53] [52] | Dan Kurzman [54] [52] | 1984 | |
Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Later Years, 1945-1965 [55] [52] | Maurice Friedman [55] [52] | 1985 | |
Chaim Weizmann, The Making of a Zionist Leader [56] [52] | Jehuda Reinharz [56] [52] | 1986 | |
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom [57] [52] | Ariel Burger [52] | 2018 | |
Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination [52] | David E. Lowe [52] | 2019 | |
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History | Nancy Sinkoff | 2020 | |
To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah | Dvora Hacohen | 2021 | |
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World | Jonathan Freedland | 2022 | |
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History | Benjamin Balint | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year |
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Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace [58] [59] | Masha Gessen [60] [61] [59] | 2005 |
The Lost. A Search for Six of Six Million [62] [63] [59] | Daniel Mendelsohn [63] [59] | 2006 |
The awards in the Book Club Award category, the Miller Family Awards in Memory of Helen Dunn Weinstein and June Keit Miller, are presented to authors of an outstanding work of fiction or nonfiction that inspires meaningful conversation about Jewish life, identity, practice, or history. [64]
Title | Author | Year | |
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And After the Fire [65] [66] [64] | Lauren Belfer [64] | 2016 | |
The Weight of Ink [67] [68] [64] | Rachel Kadish [67] [64] | 2017 | |
The Girl from Berlin [64] | Richard H. Balson [64] | 2018 | |
The World That We Knew: A Novel [69] [70] [64] | Alice Hoffman [70] [64] | 2019 | |
The Lost Shtetl | Max Gross [64] | 2020 | |
The Hidden Palace | Helene Wecker [64] | 2021 | |
Shayna | Miriam Ruth Black | 2022 | |
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year |
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Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion [71] [72] | Eric A. Kimmel [73] [74] [72] | 2004 |
Real Time [72] | Pnina Moed Kass [75] [72] | 2005 |
The Book Thief [76] [72] | Markus Zusak [77] [78] [72] | 2006 |
Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel [72] | Marv Wolfman [72] | 2007 |
The Diary of Laura's Twin [72] | Kathy Kacer [72] | 2008 |
The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis [79] [72] | Kim Ablon Whitney [72] | 2009 |
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania [80] [72] | Haya Leah Molnar [72] | 2010 |
Deadly [81] [72] | Julie Chibbaro [72] | 2011 |
Meet at the Ark at Eight [82] [72] | Ulrich Hub [72] | 2012 |
The War within These Walls [83] [72] | Aline Sax [72] | 2013 |
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker [84] [72] | Devra Lehmann [72] | 2014 |
The awards in the Children's Literature category are presented to authors (or editors) and illustrators of a Jewish-themed children book (age 0 to 11 years old). [85]
The name the awards were known by changed on several occasions over the years: [85]
There was no National Jewish Book Award for the Children's Literature category in 1956, 1957, 1968, 1969 and for the years 2004 to 2014.
In 1970, there were two winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category and only one winner for the 2002-2003 period. [85]
Title | Author | Illustrator | Year |
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All-of-a-Kind Family [86] [87] [85] | Sydney Taylor [88] [85] | Helen John[ citation needed ] | 1952 |
Stories of King David [85] | Lillian S. Freehof [89] [85] | 1953 | |
The Jewish People: Book III [85] | Deborah Pessin [85] | 1954 | |
The junior Jewish encyclopedia [85] | Naomi Ben-Asher and Hayim Leaf [85] | 1958 | |
Border hawk: August Bondi [85] | Lloyd Alexander [90] [85] | Bernard Krigstein [85] | 1959 |
Keys to a magic door: Isaac Leib Peretz [85] | Sylvia Rothchild [85] | 1960 | |
Discovering Israel [85] | Regina Tor [85] | 1961 | |
Ten and a kid [85] | Sadie Rose Weilerstein [85] | 1962 | |
Return to Freedom [85] | Josephine Kamm [85] | 1963 | |
A Boy of Old Prague [85] | Sulamith Ish-Kishor [85] | Ben Shahn [85] | 1964 |
Worlds lost and found; discoveries in Biblical archeology [85] | Azriel Louis Eisenberg and Dov Peretz Elkins [85] | Charles Pickard [91] | 1965 |
The Dreyfus affair [85] | Betty Schechter [85] | 1966 | |
The story of Israel [85] | Meyer Levin [85] | 1967 | |
Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time; The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist [85] | Charlie May Simon [85] | 1970 | |
The Story of Masadah, by Yigael Yadin: Retold for Young Readers [85] | Gerald Gottlieb [85] | 1970 | |
Journey to America [85] | Sonia Levitin [92] [85] | Charles Robinson [93] | 1971 |
The master of miracle; a new novel of the Golem [85] | Sulamith Ish-Kishor [85] | Arnold Lobel [94] | 1972 |
The Upstairs Room [95] [96] [85] | Johanna Reiss [85] | 1973 | |
Uncle Misha's Partisans [85] | Yuri Suhl [85] | 1974 | |
The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance [85] | Bea Stadtler, [85] Morrison David Bial [97] | David S. Martin [97] | 1975 |
Haym Salomon Liberty's Son [85] | Shirley Gorson Milgrim [85] | 1976 | |
Rifka Grows Up [85] | Chaya M. Burstein [85] | 1977 | |
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust [98] [85] | Milton Meltzer [99] [85] | 1978 | |
Dita Saxova [85] | Arnošt Lustig [100] [85] | 1980 | |
A Russian Farewell [85] | Leonard Everett Fisher [85] | 1981 | |
The Night Journey [85] | Kathryn Lasky [85] | 1982 | |
King of the Seventh Grade [85] | Barbara Cohen [101] [85] | 1983 | |
The Jewish kids catalog [85] | Chaya M. Burstein [85] | 1984 | |
Good If It Goes [102] [85] | Gary Provost and Gail Levine-Friedus [85] | 1985 | |
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 [85] | Linda Atkinson [85] | 1986 | |
Monday in Odessa [85] | Eileen Bluestone Sherman [85] | 1987 | |
The Return [103] [85] | Sonia Levitin [104] [85] | 1988 | |
The Devil's Arithmetic [105] [106] [85] | Jane Yolen [85] | 1989 | |
Number the Stars [107] [108] [85] | Lois Lowry [109] [85] | 1990 | |
Becoming Gershona [85] | Nava Semel [110] and Seymour Simckes, trans. [85] | 1991 | |
The Man from the Other Side [111] [85] | Uri Orlev and Hillel Halkin, trans. [85] | 1992 | |
Letters from Rifka [85] | Karen Hesse [112] [85] | 1993 | |
Golden Windows and Other Stories of Jerusalem [113] [85] | Adèle Geras [85] | 1994 | |
Under the Domim Tree [114] [85] | Gila Almagor [85] and Hillel Schenker [115] | 1995 | |
Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories [85] | Howard Schwartz [85] | 1996 | |
The Golem: A Version [85] | Barbara Rogasky [85] | Trina Schart Hyman [116] | 1997 |
Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle [85] | Norman H. Finkelstein [85] | 1998 | |
With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish [85] | Sandy Asher, ed. [85] | 1999 | |
The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic [85] | Howard Schwartz [85] | 2000 | |
Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience [85] | Norman H. Finkelstein [85] | 2001 | |
Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury [85] | Ilene Cooper [117] [85] | Elivia Savadier [118] | 2002-2003 |
Oskar and the Eight Blessings [119] [120] [85] | Tanya Simon and Richard Simon [119] [120] [85] | Mark Siegel [119] [121] | 2015 |
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark [85] [122] [123] [124] [125] | Debbie Levy [85] [122] [123] [124] [125] | Elizabeth Baddeley [126] [127] [122] [123] [124] [125] [85] | 2016 |
The Language of Angels [128] [85] | Richard Michelson [85] | Karla Gudeon [85] | 2017 |
All Three Stooges [85] | Erica S. Perl [85] | 2018 | |
Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story [129] [85] | Lesléa Newman [129] [130] [85] | Amy June Bates [129] [131] [132] [133] [134] [135] [136] [137] [138] [85] | 2019 |
The awards in the Children's Picture Book category are presented to authors and illustrators. The award was known as the Marcia and Louis Posner Awardfrom 1989 to 1993 and as Louis Posner Memorial Award from 1994 to 2001 [139]
There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Picture Book category in 1984, 1995 and 1996. [139]
Title | Author | Illustrator | Year | |
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Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story [139] | Barbara Cohen [139] | 1983 | ||
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks [139] | Amy Schwartz [139] | 1985 | ||
Brothers: A Hebrew Legend [139] | Florence B. Freedman [139] | Andrew Parker [139] | 1986 | |
Poems for Jewish Holidays [139] | Myra Livingston [139] | Lloyd Bloom [139] | 1987 | |
Exodus [139] | Miriam Chaikin [139] | Charles Mikolaycak [139] | 1988 | |
Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale [140] [139] | Barbara Diamond Goldin [139] | Seymour Chwast [139] | 1989 | |
Berchick [139] | Esther Silverstein Blanc [139] | Tennessee Dixon [139] | 1990 | |
Hanukkah! [139] | Roni Schotter [139] | Marylin Hafner [139] | 1991 | |
Chicken Man [139] | Michelle Edwards [139] | 1992 | ||
Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas [141] [139] | Michael J. Rosen [139] | Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson [139] | 1993 | |
The Always Prayer Shawl [139] | Sheldon Oberman [139] | Ted Lewin [139] | 1994 | |
Marven of the Great North Woods [139] | Kathryn Lasky [139] | Kevin Hawkes [139] | 1997 | |
You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks [139] | Francine Prose [139] | Mark Podwal [139] | 1998 | |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat [142] [139] | Simms Taback [143] [139] | 1999 | ||
Moishe's Miracle: A Hanukkah Story [139] | Laura Krauss Melmed [139] | David Slonim [139] | 2000 | |
The Littlest Pair [139] | Sylvia Rouss [139] | Holly Harmon [139] | 2001 | |
Two New Years | Richard Ho | Lynn Scurfield | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices category are presented to authors of a non-fiction book about current tools and resources for Jewish living. The award was known as the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levythe in 2002-2003 and as the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Awards since 2011. [144]
Title | Author | Year | |
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Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage [144] | Paul Cowan [144] | 1988 | |
Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America [144] | Jonathan Kaufman [144] | 1989 | |
Prayer & Community: The Havurah in American Judaism [144] | Riv-Ellen Prell [144] | 1990 | |
Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World [144] | Daniel Judah Elazar [144] | 1991 | |
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism [144] | Lynn Davidman [144] | 1992 | |
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America [144] | William B. Helmreich [144] | 1993 | |
A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America [144] | Jack Wertheimer [144] | 1994 | |
To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics [144] | Elliot N. Dorff [145] [146] [144] | 2002 | |
The Blessing of a Broken Heart [147] [148] [144] | Sherri Mandell [149] [144] | 2004 | |
The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year [144] | Scott-martin Kosofsky [144] | 2005 | |
FRAGMENTED FAMILIES: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation [144] | Ellen Sucov [144] | 2006 | |
Inventing Jewish Ritual [150] [144] | Vanessa L. Ochs [151] [144] | 2007 | |
Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey [152] [144] | Harold M. Schulweis [153] [154] [144] | 2008 | |
Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End [155] [156] [157] [144] | Daniel Gordis [158] [159] [144] | 2009 | |
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation [160] [161] [144] | Martin Fletcher [160] [144] | 2010 | |
A Guide to Jewish Practice, Vol. 1: Everyday Living [144] | David A. Teutsch [144] | 2011 | |
Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer [144] | Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi [144] | 2012 | |
Kaddish: Women's Voices [144] | Michal Smart [144] | 2013 | |
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir [162] [163] [164] [165] [144] | Shulem Deen [164] [144] | 2015 | |
Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change [166] [167] [168] [144] | David Jaffé [144] | 2016 | |
The Torah of Music [144] | Joey Weisenberg [144] | 2017 | |
The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law [144] | Leon Wiener Dow [144] | 2018 | |
How to Fight Anti-Semitism [169] [2] [144] | Barri Weiss [144] | 2019 | |
Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love | Arthur Green | 2020 | |
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present | Dara Horn | 2021 | |
On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World | Danya Ruttenberg | 2022 | |
Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole | Julia Watts Belser | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Contemporary Jewish thought and experience category, the Maurice Amado Foundation Award, are presented to authors of books about the contemporary Jewish experience.
Title | Author | Year |
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A Jew in America: My Life and A People's Struggle for Identity [170] [171] [172] [173] | Arthur Hertzberg [174] [173] | 2002-2003 |
The awards in the Debut Fiction category, the Goldberg Prizes, are presented to authors for their first published novel or short-story collection with Jewish content. The awards were known as the Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize from 2011 to 2014. There were no prizes awarded from 2004 to 2009. [175]
Title | Author | Year | |
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In the Image [176] [177] [175] | Dara Horn [175] | 2002-2003 | |
Rich Boy [175] | Sharon Pomerantz [175] | 2010 | |
Boxer, Beetle [178] [179] [180] [175] | Ned Beauman [181] [175] | 2011 | |
The Sensualist [175] | Daniel Torday [175] | 2012 | |
The Lion Seeker [182] [183] [175] | Kenneth Bonert [184] [183] [175] | 2013 | |
The Mathematician's Shiva [185] [186] [175] | Stuart Rojstaczer [175] | 2014 | |
The Boatmaker [175] | John Benditt [175] | 2015 | |
Anna and the Swallow Man [175] | Gavriel Savit [175] | 2016 | |
Barren Island [175] | Carol Zoref [175] | 2017 | |
The Book of Dirt [187] [188] [175] | Bram Presser [189] [175] | 2018 | |
Naamah [190] [191] [192] [175] | Sarah Blake [175] | 2019 | |
Florence Adler Swims Forever | Rachel Beanland | 2020 | |
A Play for the End of the World: A Novel | Jai Chakrabarti | 2021 | |
Abomination | Ashley Goldberg | 2022 | |
All-Night Pharmacy | Ruth Madievsky | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Eastern European Studies category, the Ronald S. Lauder Awards, are presented to authors of books about Eastern Europe. There were no winners in this category in 2001, 2003, and 2004. [193]
Title | Author | Year |
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Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies : Special Issue on Ethnic Stereotypes [193] | Antony Polonsky [194] [193] | 2000 |
Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee [193] | Joshua Rubenstein [193] | 2002 |
The Jewish Century [195] [196] [193] | Yuri Slezkine [197] [193] | 2005 |
Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 [198] [199] [193] | Marci Shore [200] [193] | 2006 |
An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two-Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose And Poetry [193] | Maxim Shrayer [201] [193] | 2007 |
The awards in the Education and Jewish Identity category are presented to authors of nonfiction works, textbooks excluded, that focuses on the theory, history, or practice of Jewish education and identity. There were no winners in this category in 2007, 2009, and 2011. The award has been presented in memory of Dorothy Kripke since 2008. [202]
Title | Author | Year | |
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Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience [202] | Faydra Shapiro [202] | 2006 | |
What We Now Know About Jewish Education [202] | Roberta Louis Goodman [202] | 2008 | |
Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary [202] | Isa Aron [202] | 2010 | |
Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools [202] | Jeffrey Kress [202] | 2012 | |
Educating in the divine image : gender issues in Orthodox Jewish day schools [202] | Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman [202] | 2013 | |
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli [202] | Ted Merwin [202] | 2015 | |
Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations [202] | Rabbi Mike Uram [202] | 2016 | |
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age [202] | Steven Weitzman [202] | 2017 | |
The "Talmud": A Biography [202] | Barry Scott Wimpfheimer [202] | 2018 | |
Antisemitism: Here and Now [2] [203] [202] | Deborah Lipstadt [204] [203] [202] | 2019 | |
Hebrew Infusion | Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan B. Krasner and Sharon Avni | 2020 | |
Jewish Cultural Studies | Simon J. Bronner | 2021 | |
My Second-Favorite Country | Sivan Zakai | 2022 | |
Israel 201: Your Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mystery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land | Joel Chasnoff, Benji Lovitt | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the English Poetry category are presented to the authors of Jewish poetry in English. There were no winners in this category from 1952 to 1958, in 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970 and from 1972 to 1976. At its inception, in 1951, the award was known as the Florence Dovner Memorial Poetry Award. From 1959 to 1977, it was known as the Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award. [205]
Title | Author | Year |
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Jerusalem Has Many Faces [205] | Judah Stampfer [205] | 1951 |
Come Under the Wings: A Midrash on Ruth [205] | Grace Goldin [205] | 1959 |
The spoken choice [205] | Amy K. Blank [205] | 1960 |
Works and Days and other Poems. [205] | Irving Feldman [206] [205] | 1962 |
The Darkening Green [205] | Ruth Finer Mintz [205] | 1966 |
The Marriage Wig and Other Poems [205] | Ruth Whitman [205] | 1969 |
Traveler through time [205] | Ruth Finer Mintz [205] | 1971 |
From the Backyard of the Diaspora. [205] | Myra Sklarew [205] | 1977 |
The award for Jewish Book of the Year, the Everett Family Foundation Award, is presented to authors and editors of Jewish books. [207]
The JJ Greenberg Memorial Award, named after a former President of the Jewish Book Council, is awarded to authors of a novel or short-story collection of exemplary literary merit, with Jewish content. [247]
Title | Author | Year | |
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The Wall [247] | John Hersey [248] [249] [247] | 1950 | |
The Son of the Lost Son [247] | Soma Morgenstern [250] [247] | 1951 | |
Quiet Street [251] [247] | Zelda Popkin [247] | 1952 | |
The Juggler [252] [253] [247] | Michael Blankfort [247] | 1953 | |
In the Morning Light [254] [247] | Charles Angoff [247] | 1954 | |
Blessed Is The Land [255] [247] | Louis Zara [256] [257] [247] | 1955 | |
Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo [258] [247] | Lion Feuchtwanger [259] [247] | 1957 | |
The Assistant | Bernard Malamud | 1958 | |
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories | Philip Roth | 1960 | |
The Human Season | Edward Lewis Wallant | 1961 | |
Wedding Band | Samuel Yellen | 1962 | |
The Slave | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1963 | |
The King's Persons | Joanne Greenberg | 1964 | |
The Town Beyond the Wall | Elie Wiesel | 1965 | |
The stronghold | Meyer Levin | 1966 | |
The Well | Chaim Grade | 1967 | |
Memory of Autumn | Charles Angoff | 1969 | |
Waiting for the news | Leo Litwak | 1970 | |
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories | Cynthia Ozick | 1972 | |
Somewhere Else | Robert Kotlowitz | 1973 | |
Judah the Pious | Francine Prose | 1974 | |
White eagle, dark skies | Jean Karsavina | 1975 | |
Other People's Lives | Johanna Kaplan | 1976 | |
Bloodshed and Three Novellas | Cynthia Ozick | 1977 | |
The Yeshiva | Chaim Grade | 1978 | |
Leah's Journey | Gloria Goldreich | 1979 | |
The apathetic bookie joint | Daniel Fuchs | 1980 | |
O My America! | Johanna Kaplan | 1981 | |
Ellis Island and Other Stories | Mark Helprin | 1982 | |
Temple | Robert Greenfield | 1983 | |
An Admirable Woman | Arthur A. Cohen | 1984 | |
Invisible Mending | Frederick Busch | 1985 | |
The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. (Jewish Lives) | Arnošt Lustig | 1986 | |
The Counterlife | Philip Roth | 1988 | |
The Immortal Bartfuss | Aharon Appelfeld | 1989 | |
Five Seasons | A. B. Yehoshua | 1990 | |
The Gift of Asher Lev | Chaim Potok | 1991 | |
Rosendorf Quartet | Nathan Shaham | 1992 | |
Mr. Mani | A. B. Yehoshua | 1993 | |
The Prince of West End Avenue | Alan Isler | 1994 | |
Mazel | Rebecca Goldstein | 1995 | |
Gangsters | Evan Zimroth | 1996 | |
The Actual | Saul Bellow | 1997 | |
The Iron Tracks | Aharon Appelfeld | 1998 | |
The Wedding Jester | Steve Stern | 1999 | |
The Human Stain | Philip Roth | 2000 | |
Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 2001 | |
The Russian Debutante's Handbook | Gary Shteyngart | 2002-2003 | |
Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories | Marjorie Sandor | 2004 | |
The Final Solution. A Story of Detection | Michael Chabon | 2005 | |
The World to Come | Dara Horn | 2006 | |
A Pigeon and a Boy | Meir Shalev | 2007 | |
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | Peter Manseau | 2008 | |
Gratitude | Joseph Kertes | 2009 | |
To the End of the Land | David Grossman | 2010 | |
Until the Dawn's Light | Aharon Appelfeld | 2011 | |
The Innocents | Francesca Segal | 2012 | |
Between Friends | Amos Oz | 2013 | |
The Betrayers | David Bezmozgis | 2014 | |
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | Joshua Ferris | 2014 | |
The Last Flight of Poxl West | Daniel Torday | 2015 | |
The Gustav Sonata | Rose Tremain | 2016 | |
A Horse Walks Into a Bar | David Grossman | 2017 | |
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo | Michael David Lukas | 2018 | |
Fly Already: Stories [2] [260] | Etgar Keret | 2019 | |
Apeirogon | Colum McCann | 2020 | |
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family | Joshua Cohen | 2021 | |
Signal Fires | Dani Shapiro | 2022 | |
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Food Writing and Cookbook category, the Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award, are presented to authors of cookbooks or works of food writing that explores Jewish identity, history, and culture. [261]
Title | Author | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Jewish Cuisine in Hungary. A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes [262] [2] [261] | Andras Koerner [261] | 2019 | |
Now for Something Sweet | Monday Morning Cooking Club | 2020 | |
Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews | Esther David | 2021 | |
Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy | Benedetta Jasmine Guetta | 2022 | |
Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met At Dubrow's Cafeteria | Marcia Bricker Halperin | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Love | Maayan Eitan | 2022 [263] | |
Operation Bethlehem | Yariv Inbar | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the History category, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award, are presented to authors of non-fiction books concerning Jewish history. [264]
Title | Author | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer, 1939-1945 | Zosa Szajkowski | 1966 | |
And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight: The Eichmann Trial, Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Ahrendt's Narrorative | Jacob Robinson | 1968 | |
The Holocaust: the Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945 | Nora Levin | 1969 | |
The Story of the Jewish Catastrophe in Europe. Experimental Edition 1967. | Judah Pilch | 1969 | |
Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre, (Fun Yiddishin Theater) YIDDISH ONLY Volume V Only | Zalme Zylberzweig | 1970 | |
The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration & the Holocaust 1938-1945 | Henry L. Feingold | 1972 | |
Judenrat : the Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation | Isaiah Trunk | 1975 | |
Jerusalem of Lithuania: illustrated and documeted | Leyzer Ran | 1976 | |
The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps | Terrence Des Pres | 1978 | |
Deliverance Day: The Last Hours at Dachau | Michael Selzer | 1979 | |
Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation | Benjamin B. Ferencz | 1980 | |
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary | Randolph L. Braham | 1981 | |
Vichy France and the Jews | Michael R. Marrus | 1982 | |
None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 | Irving M. Abella | 1983 | |
Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944 | Emil Dorian | 1984 | |
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 | David S. Wyman | 1985 | |
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide | Robert Jay Lifton | 1987 | |
The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival | Susan Zuccotti | 1988 | |
Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War | Christopher Simpson | 1989 | |
A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto | Abraham Lewin | 1990 | |
The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 | Leni Yahil | 1991 | |
Women in the Holocaust | Dalia Ofer | 1992 | |
The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning | James E. Young | 1993 | |
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland | Christopher R. Browning | 1994 | |
We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin | Paul R. Wilson (translator) | 1995 | |
Auschwitz | Deborah Dwork | 1996 | |
The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939 [300] [301] | Saul Friedländer | 1997 | |
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany | Marion A. Kaplan | 1998 | |
Reading the Holocaust | Inga Clendinnen | 1999 | |
Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945 | Evan Burr Bukey | 2000 | |
Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust | Nechama Tec | 2002-2003 | |
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 | Christopher R. Browning | 2004 | |
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier | Deborah E. Lipstadt | 2005 | |
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust | Jeffrey Herf | 2006 | |
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State | Götz Aly | 2007 | |
The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews | Patrick Desbois | 2008 | |
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA) (A & B) | Geoffrey P. Megargee | 2009 | |
Remembering Survival. Inside a Nazi Slave-labor Camp | Christopher R. Browning | 2010 | |
Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice | Gerald Steinacher | 2011 | |
Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford Series on History and Archives) | Laura Jockusch | 2012 | |
The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary | Randolph L. Braham | 2013 | |
Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour [301] [302] | James A. Grymes | 2014 | |
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne | Anna Bikont | 2015 | |
Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World [303] | Michael Bazyler | 2016 | |
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis [304] [301] | David E. Fishman | 2017 | |
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz | Omer Bartov | 2018 | |
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between | Michael Dobbs | 2019 | |
The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help | Faris Cassell | 2020 | |
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed | Wendy Lower | 2021 | |
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World | Jonathan Freedland | 2022 | |
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance | Jeremy Eichler | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank [305] | 2022 | |
The Ghost Tattoo | Tony Bernard | 2023 | [15] |
This award seeks to recognize individuals employed in traditional publishing or working independently as editors, agents, publicists, publishers, literary critics and have exhibited substantial engagement with Jewish authors.
Winner | Year |
---|---|
Gary Rosenblatt [263] | 2017 |
Susan Shapiro | 2018 |
Dena W. Neusner | 2019 |
Deborah Harris | 2020 |
Bonny V. Fetterman | 2021 |
Ellen Frankel | 2022 |
Altie Karper | 2023 |
Title | Author | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
The Blackbird Girls | Anne Blankman [231] | 2020 | |
Linked | Gordon Korman | 2021 | |
The Prince of Steel Pier | Stacy Nockowitz | 2022 | |
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman | Mari Lowe | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Illustrated Children's Book category, the Louis Posner Memorial Awards, are presented jointly to authors and illustrators of Jewish illustrated children's book. [306]
Title | Author | Illustrator | Year |
---|---|---|---|
Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen [307] [308] [306] | Michelle R. McCann and Luba Tryszynska-Frederick [306] | 2004 | |
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century [309] [310] [306] | Uri Shulevitz [311] [312] [306] | 2005 | |
The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac [313] [306] | Mordicai Gerstein [314] [306] | 2006 | |
Even Higher [306] | Richard Ungar [315] [306] | 2007 | |
The Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story [316] [306] | Eric A. Kimmel [73] [74] [306] | Katya Krenina [317] [306] | 2008 |
JPS illustrated children's Bible [306] | Ellen Frankel [306] | Avi Katz [306] | 2009 |
The Rooster Prince of Beslov [318] [306] | Ann Redisch Stampler [319] [320] [306] | Eugene Yelchin [319] [321] [306] | 2010 |
The Golem's Latkes [322] [323] [306] | Eric A. Kimmel [73] [74] [306] | Aaron Jasinski [322] [306] | 2011 |
The Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other [324] [306] | Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso [325] [326] [306] | Joani Keller Rothenberg [306] | 2012 |
Hanukkah Bear [327] [306] | Eric A. Kimmel [73] [74] [306] | Mike Wohnoutka [328] [306] | 2013 |
The Patchwork Torah (Sukkot & Simchat Torah) [329] [306] | Allison Ofanansky [306] | Elsa Oriol [306] | 2014 |
Title | Author | Year |
---|---|---|
The Question of Palestine: British-Jewish-Arab Relations 1914-1918 | Isaiah Friedman | 1974 |
The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc, 1947-53 | Arnold Krammer | 1975 |
American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust | Melvin I. Urofsky | 1976 |
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time | Howard Sachar [330] | 1977 |
Letters to an American Jewish friend: A Zionist's polemic | Hillel Halkin | 1978 |
Raquela: A Woman of Israel | Ruth Gruber | 1979 |
The Habima, Israel's National Theater, 1917-1977: A Study of Cultural Nationalism | Emanuel Levy [331] | 1980 |
Egypt and Israel | Howard Sachar [330] | 1982 |
Among Lions: The Definitive Account of the 1967 Battle for Jerusalem | J. Robert Moskin | 1983 |
Israel in the Mind of America | Peter Grose | 1984 |
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine | Joan Peters | 1985 |
The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan | Steven L. Spiegel | 1986 |
A Walker in Jerusalem | Samuel C. Heilman | 1987 |
Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground, 1886-1948 | Shabtai Teveth | 1988 |
Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound | Haim Chertok | 1989 |
A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the Plo | Harris Okun Schoenberg | 1990 |
The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925 | Sergio I. Minerbi | 1991 |
The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations | Itamar Rabinovich | 1992 |
Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 | Anita Shapira | 1993 |
Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism | Steven J. Zipperstein | 1994 |
Beyond The Promised Land: Jews And Arabs On The Hard Road To A New Israel | Glenn Frankel | 1995 |
The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma | Geoffrey Wheatcroft | 1996 |
Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel | Yaron Ezrahi | 1997 |
Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective | Nissim Rejwan | 1998 |
The Multiple Identities of the Middle East | Bernard Lewis | 1999 |
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate | Tom Segev | 2000 |
The awards in the Jewish Education category, the Leon Jolson Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject. [332]
Title | Author | Year |
---|---|---|
Studies in Jewish Education, volume 5 Educational Issues and Classical Jewish Texts [332] | Howard Deitcher and Abraham J. Tannenbaum [332] | 1994 |
Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work [332] | Joseph B. Reimer [333] [332] | 1997 |
First Fruit: A Whizin Anthology of Jewish Family Education [332] | Ronald Wolfson [332] | 1998 |
Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education [332] | Carol K. Ingall [332] | 1999 |
Reclaiming Goodness [332] | Hanan Alexander [332] | 2001 |
Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice [332] | Barry W. Holtz [332] | 2004 |
The awards in the Jewish Family Literature category, in memory of Dorothy Kripke, are presented to authors of books on the subject. [334]
Title | Author | Year |
---|---|---|
A Box of Candles [335] [334] | Laurie A. Jacobs [334] | 2005 |
Lilith's Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women [336] [334] | Deborah Bodin Cohen [337] [334] | 2006 |
Power of Song: And Other Sephardic Tales [334] | Rita Roth [334] | 2007 |
Genesis-The Book With Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family [334] | Esther Takac [334] | 2008 |
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays: Passover, Shavuot, The Omer, Tisha B'Av [334] | Rabbi Paul Steinberg [338] [334] | 2009 |
The awards in the Jewish folklore and anthropology category, the Raphael Patai Award, are presented to authors and editors of books on the subject. [339]
Title | Author | Year |
---|---|---|
Hasidic People: A Place in the New World [339] | Jerome Mintz [340] [339] | 1993 |
Folklore of the Sephardic Jews, volume III [339] | Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman [339] | 1994 |
Chosen Tales: Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers [339] | Peninnah Schram [341] [339] | 1995 |
Title | Author | Year |
---|---|---|
The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914, Revised edition | Moses Rischin | 1963 |
A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900 | Arthur J. Zuckerman | 1973 |
The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800 | Bernard D. Weinryb | 1974 |
The Myth of the Jewish Race | Raphael Patai | 1976 |
World of Our Fathers | Irving Howe | 1977 |
On the Edge of Destruction : Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars | Celia Stopnicka Heller | 1978 |
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society | Todd M. Endelman | 1980 |
Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, Ca. 1065–1126 | Mark R. Cohen | 1981 |
The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol | David B. Ruderman | 1982 |
Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory | Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi | 1983 |
Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish society in Russia, 1825-1855 | Michael Stanislawski | 1984 |
Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914 | Naomi Wiener Cohen | 1985 |
Religious Conflict in Social Context: The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in Frankfurt am Main, 1838-1877 | Robert Liberles | 1986 |
Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History | David Biale | 1987 |
European Jewry and the First Crusade | Robert Chazan | 1988 |
Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism | Michael A. Meyer | 1989 |
The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia | Eli Lederhendler | 1990 |
The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies | Elisheva Carlebach Jofen | 1991 |
The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany | Marion A. Kaplan | 1992 |
Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality | Naomi W. Cohen | 1993 |
Antisemitism in America | Leonard Dinnerstein | 1994 |
The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950 | Jenna Weissman Joselit | 1995 |
Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov | Moshe Rosman | 1996 |
German-Jewish History in Modern Times, volume 4: Renewal and Destruction, 1918–1945 | Michael A. Meyer | 1997 |
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (The Modern Jewish Experience) | Miriam Bodian | 1998 |
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 [exhibition] | Emily D. Bilski | 1999 |
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History | James Carroll | 2002 |
Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent | Gerald Sorin | 2002-2003 |
And the Dead Shall Rise | Steve Oney | 2004 |
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 | Mark Mazower | 2005 |
Title | Author | Year |
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Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | Harry Austryn Wolfson | 1949 |
The Jews in Medieval Germany;: A Study of Their Legal and Social Status | Guido Kisch | 1950 |
Judaism: Profile of a Faith | Ben Zion Bokser | 1964 |
Ancient Jewish Philosophy | Israel Efros | 1965 |
The Higher Freedom: A New Turning Point in Jewish History | David Polish | 1966 |
Understanding Genesis | Nahum M. Sarna | 1967 |
The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824 | Michael A. Meyer | 1968 |
Quest for Past and Future: Essays in Jewish Theology | Emil L. Fackenheim | 1969 |
Israel: An Echo of Eternity | Abraham Joshua Heschel | 1970 |
The Religion of Ethical Nationhood: Judaism's Contribution to World Peace | Mordecai Menahem Kaplan | 1971 |
Jewish Worship | Abraham E. Millgram | 1972 |
Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters | Elie Wiesel | 1973 |
Two Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible | Samuel Sandmel | 1973 |
The Mask Jews Wear: The Self-Deceptions of American Jewry | Eugene B. Borowitz | 1974 |
Major Themes in Modern Philosophies of Judaism | Eliezer Berkovits | 1975 |
Contemporary Reform Responsa | Solomon Bennett Freehof | 1976 |
Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest | David Hartman | 1977 |
The Jewish Mind | Raphael Patai | 1978 |
Love and Sex: A Modern Jewish Perspective | Robert Gordis | 1979 |
Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History | David Biale | 1980 |
Introduction to the Code of Maimonides | Isadore Twersky | 1981 |
The Art of Biblical Narrative | Robert Alter | 1982 |
Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: The Career and Controversies of Ramah | Bernard Septimus | 1983 |
Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought | Steven T. Katz | 1984 |
Halakhic Man | Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 1985 |
A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism | David Hartman | 1986 |
Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming | Arnold M. Eisen | 1987 |
The Orphaned Adult: Confronting the Death of a Parent | Marc D. Angel | 1988 |
Commandments and Concerns | Michael Rosenak | 1989 |
Jewish Preaching, 1200-1800: An Anthology | Marc Saperstein | 1990 |
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew | Neil Gillman | 1991 |
Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable | Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi | 1992 |
Women as Ritual Experts | Susan Starr Sered | 1993 |
The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism [342] | Michael Fishbane [342] | 1994 |
Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud`s Myth | Robert A. Paul | 1996 |
Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters | Rodger Kamenetz | 1997 |
Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics [343] | Rachel Adler [343] | 1998 |
Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary | Norman Lamm | 1999 |
A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks [344] [345] | 2000 |
When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son | Samuel C. Heilman | 2001 |
The awards in the Jewish-Christian Relations category, the Charles H. Revson Foundation Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject. [346]
Title | Author | Year |
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Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995 [346] | Pope John Paul II [346] | 1995 |
The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's Letter [346] | Mark D. Nanos [346] | 1996 |
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara [347] [346] | David I. Kertzer [346] | 1997 |
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus [348] [349] [346] | Susannah Heschel [348] [349] [346] | 1998 |
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity [346] | Paula Fredriksen [350] [346] | 1999 |
Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy [351] [352] [346] | Susan Zuccotti [353] [346] | 2000 |
Jazz Age Jews [354] [346] | Michael Alexander [354] [355] [346] | 2002 |
Title | Author | Year | |
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The Zohar: Pritzker Edition volume 1 | Daniel C. Matt [356] | 2004 | |
The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life | Shuly Rubin Schwartz | 2006 | |
My People's Prayer Book Series | Lawrence A. Hoffman | 2007 | |
Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher's Response to the Holocaust (Philosophy) | David Patterson | 2008 | |
Genesis: The Book of Beginnings | Jonathan Sacks [344] [345] | 2009 | |
The Koren Mesorat Harav Kinot | Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 2010 | |
The Choice To Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality | Jeremy Kagan | 2011 | |
Koren Talmud Bavli, Vol. 1:Tractate Berakhot, Hebrew/English, Standard (Color) (English and Hebrew Edition) | Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz, Rabbi | 2012 | |
The Koren Pesah Mahzor = [Mahzor Koren le-Fesah] [357] | Jonathan Sacks [344] [345] | 2013 | |
After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses To Modernity | David Harry Ellenson | 2005 | |
Ani Tefilla Weekday Siddur: Ashkenaz (Hebrew/English Edition) | Jay Goldmintz | 2014 | |
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence | Jonathan Sacks [344] [345] | 2015 | |
Does Judaism Condone Violence?: Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition | Alan L. Mittleman | 2018 | |
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets | Elissa Bemporad | 2019 | |
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times | Jonathan Sacks | 2020 | |
Torah in a Time of Plague: Historical and Contemporary Jewish Responses | Erin Leib Smokler (Editor) | 2021 | |
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center | Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi | 2022 | |
The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 | Jeremy Brown | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year |
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The Beginning of Desire [358] [359] | Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg | 1995 |
Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin [360] [361] [362] [359] | David Horovitz [363] [359] | 1996 |
Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America [364] [359] | Ruth Gay [365] [359] | 1997 |
Kaddish [359] | Leon Wieseltier [366] [367] [359] | 1998 |
Yosl Rakover Talks to God [368] [359] | Zvi Kolitz [368] [359] | 1999 |
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry [369] [359] | Samuel G. Freedman [369] [359] | 2000 |
Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary [370] [359] | David L. Lieber [370] [359] | 2001 |
The awards in the Poetry category, the Berru Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash, are presented to authors of books of verse consisting primarily of poems of Jewish concern. [371]
Title | Author | Year | |
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Everything is Burning: Poems | Gerald Stern | 2005 | |
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 [372] [371] | Peter Cole [373] [371] | 2007 | |
The Book of Seventy (Pitt Poetry Series) [371] | Alicia Ostriker [374] [371] | 2009 | |
Wait: Poems [371] | C. K. Williams [375] [376] [371] | 2011 | |
Who Touches Everything [371] | Peter Waldor [371] | 2013 | |
Gabriel: A Poem [377] [378] [379] [371] | Edward Hirsch [371] | 2015 | |
"Almost Complete Poems" | Stanley Moss | 2016 | |
Waiting for the Light (Pitt Poetry Series) [371] | Alicia Ostriker [380] [381] [371] | 2017 | |
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum) [382] [371] | Erika Meitner [383] [371] | 2018 | |
Deaf Republic | Ilya Kaminsky | 2019 | |
Nautilus and Bone | Lisa Richter | 2020 | |
The Book of Anna [384] | Joy Ladin [384] | 2021 | |
Today in the Taxi | Sean Singer | 2022 | |
When There Was Light | Carlie Hoffman | 2023 | [15] |
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Title | Author | Year |
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The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning [385] [386] | Eli Yassif [385] [386] | 1999 |
Reader's Guide to Judaism [386] | Michael Terry, ed. [386] | 2000 |
The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust [387] [388] [386] | Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; Geoffrey Wigoder, consulting editor [386] | 2002 |
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism [389] [390] [386] | Howard Schwartz [386] | 2005 |
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period [386] | Steven T. Katz [391] [392] [393] [394] [386] | 2007 |
Title | Author | Year | |
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The Friars and the Jews: Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism | Jeremy Cohen | 1983 | |
A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Vol. IV: Daily Life | Shelomo Dov Goitein | 1984 | |
The Wars of the Lord - volume one | Levi ben Gershom | 1985 | |
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel | Michael Fishbane | 1986 | |
Sifre: A Tannaitic Commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy | Reuven Hammer | 1987 | |
Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe | Daniel M. Friedenberg | 1988 | |
Kabbalah: New Perspectives | Moshe Idel | 1989 | |
"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It": The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text | Jeremy Cohen | 1990 | |
History, Religion, and Antisemitism (Centennial Book) | Gavin I. Langmuir | 1991 | |
From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy | Steven D. Fraade | 1992 | |
Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages | Ephraim Kanarfogel | 1993 | |
Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles | Menachem Elon | 1994 | |
Through a Speculum That Shines | Elliot R. Wolfson | 1995 | |
Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn: Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching | Marc Saperstein | 1996 | |
Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses | David Weiss Halivni | 1997 | |
Entering the High Holy Days: A Guide to Origins, Themes, and Prayers | Reuven Hammer | 1998 | |
Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity | Jeremy Cohen | 1999 | |
The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture | Ruth R. Wisse [395] [396] [397] | 2000 | |
Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. | Seth Schwartz [398] | 2001 | |
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies | Martin Goodman | 2002-2003 | |
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation | Adele Berlin | 2004 | |
Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination | Elliot R. Wolfson | 2005 | |
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life [399] | Jon D. Levenson [399] | 2006 | |
Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism | Moshe Idel | 2007 | |
The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900 | Adam Shear | 2008 | |
Subversive Sequels in the Bible | Judy Klitsner | 2009 | |
From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) | Dan Miron | 2010 | |
Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures | Talya Fishman | 2011 | |
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 | Maristella Botticini | 2012 | |
Maimonides: Life and Thought | Moshe Halbertal [400] | 2013 | |
Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture | Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel [401] and Lawrence H. Schiffman [402] | 2014 | |
What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives | Christine Hayes | 2015 | |
Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response 1391 – 1392 | Benjamin R. Gampel | 2016 | |
Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) | Dov Weiss | 2017 | |
Historical Atlas of Hasidism | Marcin Wodziński | 2018 | |
Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic | Eric Lawee | 2019 | |
Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism | Sarit Kattan Gribetz | 2020 | |
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel | Katell Berthelot | 2021 | |
The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth | Jay Michaelson | 2022 | |
Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture | Mira Balberg | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs from 1997 to 2000, the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy, and in 2001, the Maurice Amado Foundation Award are presented to authors of books on the subjects. [403]
Title | Author | Year |
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The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York [404] [405] [406] [407] [403] | Claudia Roden [408] [409] [410] [411] [403] | 1997 |
A Time to Be Born [403] | Michele Klein [403] | 1998 |
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews [412] [413] [414] [403] | David M. Gitlitz, [415] [403] Linda Kay Davidson [403] | 1999 |
Synagogues Without Jews [416] [403] | Rivka Dorfman [403] | 2000 |
The Jewish Cultural Tapestry [403] | Steven M. Lowenstein [403] | 2001 |
The awards in the Sephardic Culture category, the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy, are presented to authors and editors of books that explore the traditions and practices unique to Sephardic Jews. [417]
Title | Author | date | |
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The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature [418] [417] | Ilan Stavans, ed. [419] [417] | 2005 | |
Folktales of the Jews, Vol. 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion [417] | Dan Ben-Amos [417] | 2006 | |
Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews [420] [421] [422] [423] [417] | Poopa Dweck [424] [425] [417] | 2007 | |
Greece: A Jewish History [417] | Katherine Elizabeth Fleming [426] [417] | 2008 | |
We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands [427] [417] | Rachel Shabi [428] [417] | 2009 | |
Yehuda Halevi (Jewish Encounters Series) [417] | Hillel Halkin [417] | 2010 | |
Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine [417] | Michelle Campos [417] | 2011 | |
Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) [417] | Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld [417] | 2012 | |
Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song [417] | Maureen Jackson [417] | 2013 | |
Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700 – 1950 [417] | Julia Phillips Cohen [417] and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, [429] [417] eds. | 2014 | |
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492 [430] [417] | David A. Wacks [417] | 2015 | |
Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century [431] [417] | Sarah Abrevaya Stein [432] | 2016 | |
Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco [433] [417] | Jessica M. Marglin [434] [417] | 2017 | |
Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean [435] [436] [417] | Jonathan Decter [435] [437] [417] | 2018 | |
Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria [438] [417] | Joshua Cole [417] | 2019 | |
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora | Devi Mays | 2020 | |
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain | Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa | 2021 | |
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Michael Frank | 2022 | |
Kantika | Elizabeth Graver | 2023 | [15] |
The awards in the Sephardic Studies category, the Maurice Amado Foundation Awards, were presented to authors and translators of sephardic studies books from 1992 to 2000. In 2001, the award's name changed to the Jewish Book Council Award. [439]
Title | Author | Year |
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The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain [439] | Ross Brann [440] [439] | 1992 |
The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience [441] [439] | Jane S. Gerber [442] [443] [439] | 1993 |
North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria [444] [439] | Michael M. Laskier [445] [439] | 1994 |
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain [446] [439] | Benzion Netanyahu [447] [448] [439] | 1995 |
Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jews [449] [439] | David M. Gitlitz [439] | 1996 |
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture [450] [451] [439] | Robert Brody [439] | 1998 |
Heretics or Daughters of Israel?: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile [452] [439] | Renee Levine Melammed [453] [439] | 1999 |
Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews Of Seventeenth-century Amsterdam [454] [439] | Daniel M. Swetschinski [439] | 2000 |
The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) [439] | Judah Alharizi, [439] David Simha Segal, trans. | 2001 |
Title | Author | Year |
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Purim: The Face and the Mask | Yeshiva University Museum | 1981 |
Art of the Holocaust | Janet Blatter | 1982 |
Israel in Antiquity: From David to Herod | Andrew S. Ackerman | 1983 |
A Vanished World | Roman Vishniac [455] [456] [457] | 1984 |
The Rothschild Mahzor - Florence, 1492 | Evelyn M. Cohen | 1985 |
Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning | Carol Herselle Krinsky | 1986 |
Jewish Folk Art: From Biblical Days to Modern Times | Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson | 1987 |
The Jewish Image in American Film | Lester D. Friedman | 1988 |
A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts | Leonard Singer Gold | 1989 |
The Jews in America | David Cohen | 1990 |
Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library | Shalom Sabar | 1991 |
Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945: A Tribute to the Educational Alliance Art School | Norman L. Kleeblatt | 1992 |
The Jews - A Treasury of Art and Literature | Sharon R. Keller | 1993 |
Jewish Papercuts: A History and Guide | Joseph Shadur | 1994 |
Jewish Art | Grace Cohen Grossman | 1995 |
And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World | Neil Folberg [458] | 1996 |
Judaica at the Smithsonian : Cultural Politics as Cultural Model | Grace Cohen Grossman | 1997 |
Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set) | Frederic Brenner [459] [460] | 2004 |
Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation (Jewish Museum) | Emily D. Bilski | 2005 |
Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions | Murray Zimiles | 2007 |
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 | Norman L. Kleeblatt | 2009 |
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention (Jewish Museum) | Mason Klein | 2011 |
Kabbalah in Art and Architecture | Alexander Gorlin | 2013 |
Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts | Marc Michael Epstein | 2015 |
Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art | Irvin Ungar | 2017 |
Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art | Rebecca Shaykin | 2019 |
Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation | Liana Finck | 2022 |
Title | Author | Year | |
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Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (2-volume set) | Paula E. Hyman [461] | 1998 | |
Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel | Susan Martha Kahn | 2000 | |
Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories | Tikva Frymer-Kensky [462] | 2002 | |
Gender and Israeli Society: Women's Time (Journal of Israeli History) | Hannah Naveh | 2004 | |
The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt | Ruth Andrew Ellenson | 2005 | |
Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism | Shaye J. D. Cohen | 2006 | |
Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation | Tova Hartman | 2007 | |
A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book [463] | Aliza Lavie [463] | 2008 | |
Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn | Ayala Fader | 2009 | |
Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One | Pauline Wengeroff [464] and Shulamit S. Magnus | 2010 | |
The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth | Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky | 2011 | |
The Men's Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World | Elana Maryles Sztokman | 2012 | |
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 | Melissa R. Klapper | 2013 | |
A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 | Kathryn Hellerstein | 2014 | |
Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule | Beverley Chalmers | 2015 | |
The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate | Rebecca Einstein Schorr | 2016 | |
Never a Native | Alice Shalvi [465] | 2018 | |
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement | Naomi Seidman | 2019 | |
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects | Laura Arnold Leibman | 2020 | |
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos | Judy Battalion | 2021 | |
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages | Elisheva Baumgarten | 2022 | |
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust | Robin Judd | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year | |
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Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945 | Martin C. Dean | 2008 | |
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union | Yitzhak Arad | 2009 | |
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict | Jonathan Schneer | 2010 | |
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams | Charles King | 2011 | |
The History of the Holocaust in Romania | Jean Ancel | 2012 | |
Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk | Elissa Bemporad | 2013 | |
Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era | Julia Phillips Cohen | 2014 | |
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France | Ethan B. Katz | 2015 | |
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece | Devin E. Naar | 2016 | |
Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817 – 1906 | Ellie R. Schainker | 2017 | |
Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe | Rebecca Erbelding | 2018 | |
A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust | Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.) | 2019 | |
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth | Magda Teter | 2020 | |
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War | Jaclyn Granick | 2021 | |
A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France | Laura Hobson Faure | 2022 | |
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust | Robin Judd | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year |
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Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country | Marek Web and Alter Kacyzne | 1999 |
The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage | Jeffrey Veidlinger | 2000 |
Yiddish: A Nation of Words | Miriam Weinstein | 2001 |
Title | Author | Year |
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Tsṿishn shmeykhl un ṭrer | Peretz Miransky | 1980 |
Pathways in Yiddish Literature | Hyman Bass | 1981 |
Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters | Joshua A. Fisherman | 1982 |
Kanader TidisherZamlbukh | Chaim Spilberg and Yaacov Zippe | 1983 |
Tsu Di Himlen Arof | Chaim Leib Fox | 1984 |
Fun Ash Un Fayer Iz Dayn Kroyn | Shea Tenebaum | 1985 |
Title | Author | Year | |
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The Hired Girl | Laura Amy Schlitz | 2015 | |
On Blackberry Hill | Rachel Mann | 2016 | |
Refugee | Alan Gratz | 2017 | |
Someday We Will Fly | Rachel DeWoskin | 2019 | |
The Way Back | Gavriel Savit | 2020 | |
Rebel Daughter | Lori Banov Kaufmann | 2021 | |
It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II | Susan Wider | 2022 | |
The Blood Years | Elana K. Arnold | 2023 | [15] |
Title | Author | Year |
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My Glorious Brothers | Howard Fast | 1949 |
Exodus | Leon Uris | 1959 |
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today | Pamela Nadell | 2019 |
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