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]}

American Jewish History

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
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]

Anthologies and collections

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
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]

Autobiography and memoir

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
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	[52]

Biography

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. ^[53]

There was no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category between 1986 and 2018. ^[53]

Title	Author	Year
Ben-Gurion : Prophet of Fire [54] [53]	Dan Kurzman [55] [53]	1984
Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Later Years, 1945-1965 [56] [53]	Maurice Friedman [56] [53]	1985
Chaim Weizmann, The Making of a Zionist Leader [57] [53]	Jehuda Reinharz [57] [53]	1986
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom [58] [53]	Ariel Burger [53]	2018
Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination [53]	David E. Lowe [53]	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	[59]

Biography and autobiography

Title	Author	Year
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace [60] [61]	Masha Gessen [62] [63] [61]	2005
The Lost. A Search for Six of Six Million [64] [65] [61]	Daniel Mendelsohn [65] [61]	2006

Book Club Award

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. ^[66]

Title	Author	Year
And After the Fire [67] [68] [66]	Lauren Belfer [66]	2016
The Weight of Ink [69] [70] [66]	Rachel Kadish [69] [66]	2017
The Girl from Berlin [66]	Richard H. Balson [66]	2018
The World That We Knew: A Novel [71] [72] [66]	Alice Hoffman [72] [66]	2019
The Lost Shtetl	Max Gross [66]	2020
The Hidden Palace	Helene Wecker [66]	2021
Shayna	Miriam Ruth Black	2022
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store	James McBride	2023	[73]

Children's and young adults' literature

Title	Author	Year
Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion [74] [75]	Eric A. Kimmel [76] [77] [75]	2004
Real Time [75]	Pnina Moed Kass [78] [75]	2005
The Book Thief [79] [75]	Markus Zusak [80] [81] [75]	2006
Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel [75]	Marv Wolfman [75]	2007
The Diary of Laura's Twin [75]	Kathy Kacer [75]	2008
The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis [82] [75]	Kim Ablon Whitney [75]	2009
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania [83] [75]	Haya Leah Molnar [75]	2010
Deadly [84] [75]	Julie Chibbaro [75]	2011
Meet at the Ark at Eight [85] [75]	Ulrich Hub [75]	2012
The War within These Walls [86] [75]	Aline Sax [75]	2013
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker [87] [75]	Devra Lehmann [75]	2014

Children's Literature

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). ^[88]

The name the awards were known by changed on several occasions over the years: ^[88]

• 1952 - 1955: Issac Sigel Memorial Award
• 1958: Pioneer Women's Hayim Greenberg Memorial Award
• 1957 - 1967: Issac Sigel Memorial Award
• 1970 - 1980: Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award
• 1981 - 1986: William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld
• 1987 - 1991: Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award
• 1992: The Once Upon A Time Bookstore Award
• 1993 - 1994: The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award
• 1995 - 2019: No specific name for the award in the category

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 was two winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category and only one winner for the 2002-2003 period. ^[88]

Title	Author	Illustrator	Year
All-of-a-Kind Family [89] [90] [88]	Sydney Taylor [91] [88]	Helen John [92]	1952
Stories of King David [88]	Lillian S. Freehof [93] [88]		1953
The Jewish People: Book III [88]	Deborah Pessin [88]		1954
The junior Jewish encyclopedia [88]	Naomi Ben-Asher and Hayim Leaf [88]		1958
Border hawk: August Bondi [88]	Lloyd Alexander [94] [88]	Bernard Krigstein [88]	1959
Keys to a magic door: Isaac Leib Peretz [88]	Sylvia Rothchild [88]		1960
Discovering Israel [88]	Regina Tor [88]		1961
Ten and a kid [88]	Sadie Rose Weilerstein [88]		1962
Return to Freedom [88]	Josephine Kamm [88]		1963
A Boy of Old Prague [88]	Sulamith Ish-Kishor [88]	Ben Shahn [88]	1964
Worlds lost and found; discoveries in Biblical archeology [88]	Azriel Louis Eisenberg and Dov Peretz Elkins [88]	Charles Pickard [95]	1965
The Dreyfus affair [88]	Betty Schechter [88]		1966
The story of Israel [88]	Meyer Levin [88]		1967
Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time; The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist [88]	Charlie May Simon [88]		1970
The Story of Masadah, by Yigael Yadin: Retold for Young Readers [88]	Gerald Gottlieb [88]		1970
Journey to America [88]	Sonia Levitin [96] [88]	Charles Robinson [97]	1971
The master of miracle; a new novel of the Golem [88]	Sulamith Ish-Kishor [88]	Arnold Lobel [98]	1972
The Upstairs Room [99] [100] [88]	Johanna Reiss [88]		1973
Uncle Misha's Partisans [88]	Yuri Suhl [88]		1974
The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance [88]	Bea Stadtler, [88] Morrison David Bial [101]	David S. Martin [101]	1975
Haym Salomon Liberty's Son [88]	Shirley Gorson Milgrim [88]		1976
Rifka Grows Up [88]	Chaya M. Burstein [88]		1977
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust [102] [88]	Milton Meltzer [103] [88]		1978
Dita Saxova [88]	Arnošt Lustig [104] [88]		1980
A Russian Farewell [88]	Leonard Everett Fisher [88]		1981
The Night Journey [88]	Kathryn Lasky [88]		1982
King of the Seventh Grade [88]	Barbara Cohen [105] [88]		1983
The Jewish kids catalog [88]	Chaya M. Burstein [88]		1984
Good If It Goes [106] [88]	Gary Provost and Gail Levine-Friedus [88]		1985
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 [88]	Linda Atkinson [88]		1986
Monday in Odessa [88]	Eileen Bluestone Sherman [88]		1987
The Return [107] [88]	Sonia Levitin [108] [88]		1988
The Devil's Arithmetic [109] [110] [88]	Jane Yolen [88]		1989
Number the Stars [111] [112] [88]	Lois Lowry [113] [88]		1990
Becoming Gershona [88]	Nava Semel [114] and Seymour Simckes, trans. [88]		1991
The Man from the Other Side [115] [88]	Uri Orlev and Hillel Halkin, trans. [88]		1992
Letters from Rifka [88]	Karen Hesse [116] [88]		1993
Golden Windows and Other Stories of Jerusalem [117] [88]	Adèle Geras [88]		1994
Under the Domim Tree [118] [88]	Gila Almagor [88] and Hillel Schenker [119]		1995
Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories [88]	Howard Schwartz [88]		1996
The Golem: A Version [88]	Barbara Rogasky [88]	Trina Schart Hyman [120]	1997
Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle [88]	Norman H. Finkelstein [88]		1998
With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish [88]	Sandy Asher, ed. [88]		1999
The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic [88]	Howard Schwartz [88]		2000
Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience [88]	Norman H. Finkelstein [88]		2001
Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury [88]	Ilene Cooper [121] [88]	Elivia Savadier [122]	2002-2003
Oskar and the Eight Blessings [123] [124] [88]	Tanya Simon and Richard Simon [123] [124] [88]	Mark Siegel [123] [125]	2015
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark [88] [126] [127] [128] [129]	Debbie Levy [88] [126] [127] [128] [129]	Elizabeth Baddeley [130] [131] [126] [127] [128] [129] [88]	2016
The Language of Angels [132] [88]	Richard Michelson [88]	Karla Gudeon [88]	2017
All Three Stooges [88]	Erica S. Perl [88]		2018
Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story [133] [88]	Lesléa Newman [133] [134] [88]	Amy June Bates [133] [135] [136] [137] [138] [139] [140] [141] [142] [88]	2019

Children's picture book

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 ^[143]

There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Picture Book category in 1984, 1995 and 1996. ^[143]

Title	Author	Illustrator	Year
Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story [143]	Barbara Cohen [143]		1983
Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks [143]	Amy Schwartz [143]		1985
Brothers: A Hebrew Legend [143]	Florence B. Freedman [143]	Andrew Parker [143]	1986
Poems for Jewish Holidays [143]	Myra Livingston [143]	Lloyd Bloom [143]	1987
Exodus [143]	Miriam Chaikin [143]	Charles Mikolaycak [143]	1988
Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale [144] [143]	Barbara Diamond Goldin [143]	Seymour Chwast [143]	1989
Berchick [143]	Esther Silverstein Blanc [143]	Tennessee Dixon [143]	1990
Hanukkah! [143]	Roni Schotter [143]	Marylin Hafner [143]	1991
Chicken Man [143]	Michelle Edwards [143]		1992
Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas [145] [143]	Michael J. Rosen [143]	Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson [143]	1993
The Always Prayer Shawl [143]	Sheldon Oberman [143]	Ted Lewin [143]	1994
Marven of the Great North Woods [143]	Kathryn Lasky [143]	Kevin Hawkes [143]	1997
You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks [143]	Francine Prose [143]	Mark Podwal [143]	1998
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat [146] [143]	Simms Taback [147] [143]		1999
Moishe's Miracle: A Hanukkah Story [143]	Laura Krauss Melmed [143]	David Slonim [143]	2000
The Littlest Pair [143]	Sylvia Rouss [143]	Holly Harmon [143]	2001
Two New Years	Richard Ho	Lynn Scurfield	2023	[148]

Contemporary Jewish life and practices

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 is known as the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levythe in 2002-2003 and as the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Awards since 2011. ^[149]

Title	Author	Year
Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage [149]	Paul Cowan [149]	1988
Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America [149]	Jonathan Kaufman [149]	1989
Prayer & Community: The Havurah in American Judaism [149]	Riv-Ellen Prell [149]	1990
Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World [149]	Daniel Judah Elazar [149]	1991
Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism [149]	Lynn Davidman [149]	1992
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America [149]	William B. Helmreich [149]	1993
A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America [149]	Jack Wertheimer [149]	1994
To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics [149]	Elliot N. Dorff [150] [151] [149]	2002
The Blessing of a Broken Heart [152] [153] [149]	Sherri Mandell [154] [149]	2004
The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year [149]	Scott-martin Kosofsky [149]	2005
FRAGMENTED FAMILIES: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation [149]	Ellen Sucov [149]	2006
Inventing Jewish Ritual [155] [149]	Vanessa L. Ochs [156] [149]	2007
Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey [157] [149]	Harold M. Schulweis [158] [159] [149]	2008
Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End [160] [161] [162] [149]	Daniel Gordis [163] [164] [149]	2009
Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation [165] [166] [149]	Martin Fletcher [165] [149]	2010
A Guide to Jewish Practice, Vol. 1: Everyday Living [149]	David A. Teutsch [149]	2011
Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer [149]	Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi [149]	2012
Kaddish: Women's Voices [149]	Michal Smart [149]	2013
All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir [167] [168] [169] [170] [149]	Shulem Deen [169] [149]	2015
Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change [171] [172] [173] [149]	David Jaffé [149]	2016
The Torah of Music [149]	Joey Weisenberg [149]	2017
The going : a meditation on Jewish law [149]	Leon Wiener Dow [149]	2018
How to Fight Anti-Semitism [174] [2] [149]	Barri Weiss [149]	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	[175]

Contemporary Jewish thought and experience

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
A Jew in America: My Life and A People's Struggle for Identity [176] [177] [178] [179]	Arthur Hertzberg [180] [179]	2002-2003

Debut fiction

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 was no prizes awarded from 2004 to 2009. ^[181]

Title	Author	Year
In the Image [182] [183] [181]	Dara Horn [181]	2002-2003
Rich Boy [181]	Sharon Pomerantz [181]	2010
Boxer, Beetle [184] [185] [186] [181]	Ned Beauman [187] [181]	2011
The Sensualist [181]	Daniel Torday [181]	2012
The Lion Seeker [188] [189] [181]	Kenneth Bonert [190] [189] [181]	2013
The Mathematician's Shiva [191] [192] [181]	Stuart Rojstaczer [181]	2014
The Boatmaker [181]	John Benditt [181]	2015
Anna and the Swallow Man [181]	Gavriel Savit [181]	2016
Barren Island [181]	Carol Zoref [181]	2017
The Book of Dirt [193] [194] [181]	Bram Presser [195] [181]	2018
Naamah [196] [197] [198] [181]	Sarah Blake [181]	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	[199]

Eastern European studies

The awards in the Eastern European Studies category, the Ronald S. Lauder Awards, are presented to authors of books about Eastern Europe. There was no winners in this category in 2001, 2003, and 2004. ^[200]

Title	Author	Year
Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies : Special Issue on Ethnic Stereotypes [200]	Antony Polonsky [201] [200]	2000
Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee [200]	Joshua Rubenstein [200]	2002
The Jewish Century [202] [203] [200]	Yuri Slezkine [204] [200]	2005
Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 [205] [206] [200]	Marci Shore [207] [200]	2006
An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two-Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose And Poetry [200]	Maxim Shrayer [208] [200]	2007

Education and Jewish identity

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 is presented In Memory of Dorothy Kripke since 2008 ^[209]

Title	Author	Year
Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience [209]	Faydra Shapiro [209]	2006
What We Now Know About Jewish Education [209]	Roberta Louis Goodman [209]	2008
Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary [209]	Isa Aron [209]	2010
Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools [209]	Jeffrey Kress [209]	2012
Educating in the divine image : gender issues in Orthodox Jewish day schools [209]	Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman [209]	2013
Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli [209]	Ted Merwin [209]	2015
Next generation Judaism: how college students and Hillel can help reinvent Jewish organizations [209]	Rabbi Mike Uram [209]	2016
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age [209]	Steven Weitzman [209]	2017
The "Talmud": A Biography [209]	Barry Scott Wimpfheimer [209]	2018
Antisemitism: Here and Now [2] [210] [209]	Deborah Lipstadt [211] [210] [209]	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	[212]

English poetry

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. ^[213]

Title	Author	Year
Jerusalem Has Many Faces [213]	Judah Stampfer [213]	1951
Come Under the Wings: A Midrash on Ruth [213]	Grace Goldin [213]	1959
The spoken choice [213]	Amy K. Blank [213]	1960
Works and Days and other Poems. [213]	Irving Feldman [214] [213]	1962
The Darkening Green [213]	Ruth Finer Mintz [213]	1966
The Marriage Wig and Other Poems [213]	Ruth Whitman [213]	1969
Traveler through time [213]	Ruth Finer Mintz [213]	1971
From the Backyard of the Diaspora. [213]	Myra Sklarew [213]	1977

Jewish Book of the Year

The award for Jewish Book of the Year, the Everett Family Foundation Award, is presented to authors and editors of Jewish books. ^[215]

Title	Author	Year
Six Days of War [216] [217] [215]	Michael B. Oren [218] [215]	2002
American Judaism: A History [215]	Jonathan D. Sarna [219] [220]	2004
A Tale of Love and Darkness [221] [222] [223]	Amos Oz [224] [215]	2005
A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy [215]	Rabbi Joseph Telushkin [225] [215]	2006
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now [226] [215]	James L. Kugel [215]	2007
The Torah: A Women's Commentary [215]	Tamara Cohn Eskenazi [215]	2008
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life [227] [228] [229] [215]	Melvin Urofsky [215]	2009
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry [215]	Gal Beckerman [215]	2010
Jerusalem: The Biography [230] [231] [215]	Simon Sebag Montefiore [232] [215]	2011
City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York [233] [234] [215]	Deborah Dash Moore [215]	2012
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation [235] [236] [237] [215]	Yossi Klein Halevi [238] [215]	2013
Jewish Lives Series	Ileene Smith - editorial director [239]	2014
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 [240] [241] [242] [215]	Bruce Hoffman [215]	2015
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn [243] [244] [215]	Daniel Gordis [163] [164] [215]	2016
Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel [245] [246] [247] [215]	Francine Klagsbrun [215]	2017
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld [248] [249] [250] [215]	Beate Klarsfeld [215]	2018
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today [251] [252] [215]	Pamela Nadell [253] [215]	2019
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times	Jonathan Sacks [254]	2020
To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah	Dvora Hacohen [255]	2021
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew	Michael W. Twitty [256]	2022
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance	Jeremy Eichler	2023	[257]

Fiction

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. ^[258]

Title	Author	Year
The Wall [258]	John Hersey [259] [260] [258]	1950
The Son of the Lost Son [258]	Soma Morgenstern [261] [258]	1951
Quiet Street [262] [258]	Zelda Popkin [258]	1952
The Juggler [263] [264] [258]	Michael Blankfort [258]	1953
In the Morning Light [265] [258]	Charles Angoff [258]	1954
Blessed Is The Land [266] [258]	Louis Zara [267] [268] [258]	1955
Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo [269] [258]	Lion Feuchtwanger [270] [258]	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] [271]	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	[272]

Food Writing and Cookbook

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. ^[273]

Title	Author	Year
Jewish Cuisine in Hungary. A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes [274] [2] [273]	Andras Koerner [273]	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	[275]

Hebrew Fiction in Translation

Title	Author	Year
Love	Maayan Eitan	2022 [276]
Operation Bethlehem	Yariv Inbar	2023	[277]

History

The awards in the History category, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award, are presented to authors of non-fiction books concerning Jewish history. ^[278]

Title	Author	Year
Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" [279] [280] [281] [278]	David Cesarani [282] [283] [284] [278]	2006
Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft [278]	Michael Makovsky [278]	2007
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War [285] [286] [287] [278]	Benny Morris [278]	2008
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America [288] [289] [278]	Beryl Satter [288] [278]	2009
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History [290] [278]	David B. Ruderman [291] [278]	2010
The Anatomy of Israel's Survival [278]	Hirsh Goodman [278]	2011
Israel: A History (The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies) [292] [293] [278]	Anita Shapira [278]	2012
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel [294] [295] [296] [278]	Ari Shavit [297] [278]	2013
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe [298] [299] [300] [278]	Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern [301] [278]	2014
Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama [278]	Dennis Ross [302] [278]	2015
The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel [303] [304] [305] [278]	Uri Bar-Joseph [306] [278]	2016
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew [278]	Yair Mintzker [278]	2017
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations [307] [308] [278]	Ronen Bergman [309] [278]	2018
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America [310] [311] [312] [278]	Daniel Okrent [313] [278]	2019
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects	Laura Arnold Leibman	2020
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America	Daniel Okrent	2021
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland	Kenneth B. Moss	2022
Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance	Jeremy Eichler	2023	[314]

Holocaust

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 [315] [316]	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 [316] [317]	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 [318]	Michael Bazyler	2016
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis [319] [316]	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	[320]

Holocaust Memoir Award

Title	Author	Year
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World	Michael Frank [321]	2022
The Ghost Tattoo	Tony Bernard	2023	[322]

Mentorship Award

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 [323]	2017
Susan Shapiro	2018
Dena W. Neusner	2019
Deborah Harris	2020
Bonny V. Fetterman	2021
Ellen Frankel	2022
Altie Karper	2023

Middle Grade Literature

Title	Author	Year
The Blackbird Girls	Anne Blankman [324]	2020
Linked	Gordon Korman	2021
The Prince of Steel Pier	Stacy Nockowitz	2022
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman	Mari Lowe	2023	[325]

Illustrated children's book

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. ^[326]

Title	Author	Illustrator	Year
Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen [327] [328] [326]	Michelle R. McCann and Luba Tryszynska-Frederick [326]		2004
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century [329] [330] [326]	Uri Shulevitz [331] [332] [326]		2005
The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac [333] [326]	Mordicai Gerstein [334] [326]		2006
Even Higher [326]	Richard Ungar [335] [326]		2007
The Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story [336] [326]	Eric A. Kimmel [76] [77] [326]	Katya Krenina [337] [326]	2008
JPS illustrated children's Bible [326]	Ellen Frankel [326]	Avi Katz [326]	2009
The Rooster Prince of Beslov [338] [326]	Ann Redisch Stampler [339] [340] [326]	Eugene Yelchin [339] [341] [326]	2010
The Golem's Latkes [342] [343] [326]	Eric A. Kimmel [76] [77] [326]	Aaron Jasinski [342] [326]	2011
The Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other [344] [326]	Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso [345] [346] [326]	Joani Keller Rothenberg [326]	2012
Hanukkah Bear [347] [326]	Eric A. Kimmel [76] [77] [326]	Mike Wohnoutka [348] [326]	2013
The Patchwork Torah (Sukkot & Simchat Torah) [349] [326]	Allison Ofanansky [326]	Elsa Oriol [326]	2014

Israel

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 [350]	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 [351]	1980
Egypt and Israel	Howard Sachar [350]	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

Jewish education

The awards in the Jewish Education category, the Leon Jolson Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject. ^[352]

Title	Author	Year
Studies in Jewish Education, volume 5 Educational Issues and Classical Jewish Texts [352]	Howard Deitcher and Abraham J. Tannenbaum [352]	1994
Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work [352]	Joseph B. Reimer [353] [352]	1997
First Fruit: A Whizin Anthology of Jewish Family Education [352]	Ronald Wolfson [352]	1998
Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education [352]	Carol K. Ingall [352]	1999
Reclaiming Goodness [352]	Hanan Alexander [352]	2001
Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice [352]	Barry W. Holtz [352]	2004

Jewish family literature

The awards in the Jewish Family Literature category, In Memory of Dorothy Kripke, are presented to authors of books on the subject. ^[354]

Title	Author	Year
A Box of Candles [355] [354]	Laurie A. Jacobs [354]	2005
Lilith's Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women [356] [354]	Deborah Bodin Cohen [357] [354]	2006
Power of Song: And Other Sephardic Tales [354]	Rita Roth [354]	2007
Genesis-The Book With Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family [354]	Esther Takac [354]	2008
Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays: Passover, Shavuot, The Omer, Tisha B'Av [354]	Rabbi Paul Steinberg [358] [354]	2009

Jewish folklore and anthropology

The awards in the Jewish folklore and anthropology category, the Raphael Patai Award, are presented to authors and editors of books on the subject. ^[359]

Title	Author	Year
Hasidic People: A Place in the New World [359]	Jerome Mintz [360] [359]	1993
Folklore of the Sephardic Jews, volume III [359]	Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman [359]	1994
Chosen Tales: Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers [359]	Peninnah Schram [361] [359]	1995

Jewish history

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	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

Jewish Thought

Title	Author	Year
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 [362]	Michael Fishbane [362]	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 [363]	Rachel Adler [363]	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 [364] [365]	2000
When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son	Samuel C. Heilman	2001

Jewish-Christian relations

The awards in the Jewish-Christian Relations category, the Charles H. Revson Foundation Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject. ^[366]

Title	Author	Year
Spiritual pilgrimage : texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995 [366]	Pope John Paul II [366]	1995
The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's Letter [366]	Mark D. Nanos [366]	1996
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara [367] [366]	David I. Kertzer [366]	1997
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus [368] [369] [366]	Susannah Heschel [368] [369] [366]	1998
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity [366]	Paula Fredriksen [370] [366]	1999
Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy [371] [372] [366]	Susan Zuccotti [373] [366]	2000
Jazz Age Jews [374] [366]	Michael Alexander [374] [375] [366]	2002

Modern Jewish thought and experience

Title	Author	Year
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition volume 1	Daniel C. Matt [376]	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 [364] [365]	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] [377]	Jonathan Sacks [364] [365]	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 [364] [365]	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	[378]

Non-fiction

Title	Author	Year
The Beginning of Desire [379] [380]	Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg	1995
Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin [381] [382] [383] [380]	David Horovitz [384] [380]	1996
Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America [385] [380]	Ruth Gay [386] [380]	1997
Kaddish [380]	Leon Wieseltier [387] [388] [380]	1998
Yosl Rakover Talks to God [389] [380]	Zvi Kolitz [389] [380]	1999
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry [390] [380]	Samuel G. Freedman [390] [380]	2000
Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary [391] [380]	David L. Lieber [391] [380]	2001

Poetry

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. ^[392]

Title	Author	Year
Everything is Burning: Poems	Gerald Stern	2005
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 [393] [392]	Peter Cole [394] [392]	2007
The Book of Seventy (Pitt Poetry Series) [392]	Alicia Ostriker [395] [392]	2009
Wait: Poems [392]	C. K. Williams [396] [397] [392]	2011
Who Touches Everything [392]	Peter Waldor [392]	2013
Gabriel: A Poem [398] [399] [400] [392]	Edward Hirsch [392]	2015
Almost Complete Poems	Stanley Moss	2016
Waiting for the Light (Pitt Poetry Series) [392]	Alicia Ostriker [401] [402] [392]	2017
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum) [403] [392]	Erika Meitner [404] [392]	2018
Deaf Republic	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
Nautilus and Bone	Lisa Richter	2020
The Book of Anna [405]	Joy Ladin [405]	2021
Today in the Taxi	Sean Singer	2022
When There Was Light	Carlie Hoffman	2023	[406]

References

Title	Author	Year
The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning [407] [408]	Eli Yassif [407] [408]	1999
Reader's Guide to Judaism [408]	Michael Terry, ed. [408]	2000
The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust [409] [410] [408]	Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; Geoffrey Wigoder, consulting editor [408]	2002
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism [411] [412] [408]	Howard Schwartz [408]	2005
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period [408]	Steven T. Katz [413] [414] [415] [416] [408]	2007

Scholarship

Title	Author	Year
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 [417] [418] [419]	2000
Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.	Seth Schwartz [420]	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 [421]	Jon D. Levenson [421]	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 [422]	2013
Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture	Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel [423] and Lawrence H. Schiffman [424]	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	[425]

Sephardic and Ashkenazic culture and customs

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. ^[426]

Title	Author	Year
The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York [427] [428] [429] [430] [426]	Claudia Roden [431] [432] [433] [434] [426]	1997
A Time to be Born [426]	Michele Klein [426]	1998
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews [435] [436] [437] [426]	David M. Gitlitz, [438] [426] Linda Kay Davidson [426]	1999
Synagogues Without Jews [439] [426]	Rivka Dorfman [426]	2000
The Jewish Cultural Tapestry [426]	Steven M. Lowenstein [426]	2001

Sephardic culture

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. ^[440]

Title	Author	date
The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature [441] [440]	Ilan Stavans, ed. [442] [440]	2005
Folktales of the Jews, Vol. 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion [440]	Dan Ben-Amos [440]	2006
Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews [443] [444] [445] [446] [440]	Poopa Dweck [447] [448] [440]	2007
Greece: A Jewish History [440]	Katherine Elizabeth Fleming [449] [440]	2008
We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands [450] [440]	Rachel Shabi [451] [440]	2009
Yehuda Halevi (Jewish Encounters Series) [440]	Hillel Halkin [440]	2010
Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine [440]	Michelle Campos [440]	2011
Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) [440]	Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld [440]	2012
Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song [440]	Maureen Jackson [440]	2013
Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700 – 1950 [440]	Julia Phillips Cohen [440] and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, [452] [440] eds.	2014
Double diaspora in Sephardic literature : Jewish cultural production before and after 1492 [453] [440]	David A. Wacks [440]	2015
Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century [454] [440]	Sarah Abrevaya Stein [455]	2016
Across legal lines : jews and muslims in modern morocco [456] [440]	Jessica M. Marglin [457] [440]	2017
Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean [458] [459] [440]	Jonathan Decter [458] [460] [440]	2018
Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria [461] [440]	Joshua Cole [440]	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	[462]

Sephardic studies

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. ^[463]

Title	Author	Year
The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain [463]	Ross Brann [464] [463]	1992
The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience [465] [463]	Jane S. Gerber [466] [467] [463]	1993
North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria [468] [463]	Michael M. Laskier [469] [463]	1994
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain [470] [463]	Benzion Netanyahu [471] [472] [463]	1995
Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jews [473] [463]	David M. Gitlitz [463]	1996
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture [474] [475] [463]	Robert Brody [463]	1998
Heretics or Daughters of Israel?: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile [476] [463]	Renee Levine Melammed [477] [463]	1999
Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews Of Seventeenth-century Amsterdam [478] [463]	Daniel M. Swetschinski [463]	2000
The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) [463]	Judah Alharizi, [463] David Simha Segal, trans.	2001

Visual arts

Title	Author	Year
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 [479] [480] [481]	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 [482]	1996
Judaica at the Smithsonian : Cultural Politics as Cultural Model	Grace Cohen Grossman	1997
Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set)	Frederic Brenner [483] [484]	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

Women's studies

Title	Author	Year
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia [2-volume set]	Paula E. Hyman [485]	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 [486]	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 [487]	Aliza Lavie [487]	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 [488] 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 [489]	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 Batalion	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	[490]

Writing based on archival material

Title	Author	Year
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	[491]

Yiddish language and culture

Title	Author	Year
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

Yiddish literature

Title	Author	Year
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 Tidisher Zamlbukh	Chaim Spilberg and Yaacov Zippe	1983
Tsu Di Himlen Arof	Chaim Leib Fox	1984
Fun Ash Un Fayer Iz Dayn Kroyn	Shea Tenebaum	1985

Young adult literature

Title	Author	Year
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	[492]

Uncategorized

Title	Author	Year
My Glorious Brothers	Howard Fast	1949
Exodus	Leon Uris	1959
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today	Pamela Nadell	2019

See also

• National Jewish Book Award
• Jewish Book Council

References

External links

• Past winners of the National Jewish Books Award