Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture Winner: Michael David Lukas

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From the Jewish Book Council

The Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture, a pro­gram of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, is pleased to announce that Michael David Lukas, author of The Last Watch­man of Old Cairo (Spiegel & Grau, 2018), is the win­ner of the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture. …

Dalia Rosen­feld, author of the col­lec­tion of short sto­ries The Worlds We Think We Know (Milk­weed Edi­tions, 2017), was named the Choice Award win­ner and will receive a prize of $18,000. The three remain­ing pre­sen­ta­tions of $5,000 each will be award­ed to Sami Rohr Prize Fel­lows :

• • Rachel Kadish, author of The Weight of Ink (Houghton Mif­flin Har­court, 2017)
  • Mark Sar­vas, author of Memen­to Park (Far­rar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
  • Mar­got Singer, author of Under­ground Fugue (Melville House, 2017)

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