The National Jewish Book Awards have been announced
Here is the list of winners. For finalists and further details check this page at the Jewish Book Council
Jewish Book of the Year
Everett Family Foundation Award
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle For Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman
Knopf
American Jewish Studies
Celebrate 350 Award
Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
Adam S. Ferziger
Wayne State University Press
Anthologies and Collections
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russian and America
Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Indiana University Press
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring
Joseph Polak; Elie Wiesel, fwd.
Urim Publications
Children’s Literature
Oskar and the Eight Blessings
Tanya Simon and Richard Simon; Mark Siegel, illus.
Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir
Shulem Deen
Graywolf Press
Debut Fiction
Goldberg Prize
The Boatmaker
John Benditt
Tin House Books
Education and Jewish Identity
In Memory of Dorothy Kripke
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
Ted Merwin
NYU Press
Fiction
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
The Last Flight of Poxl West: A Novel
Daniel Torday
St. Martin’s Press
History
Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Dennis Ross
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Holocaust
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Anna Bikont; Alissa Valles, trans.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
Not In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Schocken Books
Poetry
Gabriel: A Poem
Edward Hirsch
Knopf
Scholarship
Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award
What’s Divine About Divine Law? Early Perspectives
Christine Hayes
Princeton University Press
Sephardic Culture
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492
David A. Wacks
Indiana University Press
Visual Arts
Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts
Marc Michael Epstein, ed.
Princeton University Press
Women’s Studies
Barbara Dobkin Award
Birth, Sex, and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule
Beverley Chalmers
Grosvenor House Publishers
Writing Based on Archival Material
The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
Ethan B. Katz
Harvard University Press
Young Adult
The Posner Award
The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz
Candlewick
