2014 National Jewish Book Award Winners and Finalists
Jewish Book of the Year – Everett Family Foundation Award
Winner:
Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives Series
Ileene Smith, editorial director
Steven J. Zipperstein and Anita Shapira, series editors
American Jewish Studies – Celebrate 350 Award
Winner:
The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
Adam D. Mendelsohn
NYU Press
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir – The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
Winner:
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
George Prochnik
Other Press
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Winner:
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker
Devra Lehmann
Namelos
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice – Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award
Winner:
A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates
Shlomo M. Brody
Maggid
Education and Jewish Identity – In Memory of Dorothy Kripke
Winner:
A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs
Elie Holzer with Orit Kent
Academic Studies Press
Fiction – JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
Winner:
The Betrayers
David Bezmozgis
Little, Brown and Company
History – Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
Winner:
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Princeton University Press
Holocaust
Winner:
Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour
James A. Grymes
Harper Perennial
Illustrated Children’s Book – Louis Posner Memorial Award
Winner:
The Patchwork Torah
Allison Ofanansky; Elsa Oriol, illus.
Kar-Ben Publishing
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience – Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
Winner:
The Koren Ani Tefillah Siddur
Rabbi Jay Goldmintz, concept and commentary
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, introduction and translation
Koren Publishers Jerusalem
Source: Jewish Book Council
