List of winners of the National Jewish Book Award

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] 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][3][4][5]

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.^[6]

American Jewish History Award winners^[6]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2005	The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton	Jerome Karabel
2006	Emma Lazarus	Esther Schor
2007	Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972	Edward K. Kaplan
2008	Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture	Julian Levinson
2009	We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962	Hasia R. Diner	[7]
2010	The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson	Samuel Heilman
2011	The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education	Jonathan B. Krasner
2012	Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life	Laura Arnold Leibman
2013	FDR and the Jews	Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman	[8]
2014	The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire	Adam D. Mendelsohn
2015	Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism	Adam S. Ferziger
2016	Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food	Roger Horowitz
2017	Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America	Shari Rabin
2018	The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today	Jack Wertheimer	[9]
2019	The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism	Kenneth D. Wald
2020	The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects	Laura Arnold Leibman	[10][11]
2021	A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg	Nathaniel Deutsch and  Michael Casper	[12]
2022	American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York	Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers	[13]
2023	Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York	Deborah Dash Moore	[14]
2024	A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews	Shaul Kelner

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.^[15] 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.

Anthologies and Collections award winners^[15]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2002 - 2003	Cultures of the Jews: A New History	David Biale
2004	I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl	Judea Pearl
2005	Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer	Derek Rubin
2006	Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron	Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
2007	Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal	Michael Fineberg
2009	Rethinking European Jewish History	Jeremy Cohen
2010	The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture	Judith Reesa Baskin
2011	Gender and Jewish History	Marion A. Kaplan
2012	Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame	Franklin Foer
2013	1929: Mapping the Jewish World	Hasia R. Diner
2015	Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America	Alice Nakhimovsky
2016	Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made	Jacques Picard
2019	What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew	Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg	[16]

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.^[17] There was no winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Autobiography and Memoir category for 1987, 1988, 2002 to 2006.^[17]

Autobiography and Memoir award winners^[17][18]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1984	Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire	Dan Kurzman	[19]
1985	Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Later Years, 1945-1965	Maurice Friedman
1986	Chaim Weizmann, The Making of a Zionist Leader	Jehuda Reinharz	[20][21]
1989	Fear No Evil	Natan Sharansky	[22][23][24][25]
1990	From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947	Lucy S. Dawidowicz	[26][27]
1991	Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections on a Harlem Childhood	Irving Louis Horowitz	[28]
1992	Mostly Morganthaus: A Family History	Henry Morgenthau III
1993	On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist	Judea Pearl	[29][30][31]
1994	A Spy in Canaan: My Life As a Jewish-American Businessman Spying for Israel in Arab Lands	Howard H. Schack
1995	In This Dark House: A Memoir	Louise Kehoe
1996	Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood	Binjamin Wilkomirski	[32][33][34]
1997	Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir	Elizabeth Ehrlich
1998	Jacob, Menachem und Mimoun. Ein Familienepos	Marcel Bénabou	[35]
1999	King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers	Stephen A. Sadow
2000	A Scholar's Odyssey	Cyrus H. Gordon
2001	The Rebbe's Daughter	Malkah Shapiro
2007	A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life	George Konrad	[36][18][37][38]
2008	Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self	Carole S. Kessner
2009	The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner	Dina Porat
2010	The Man On Devil’s Island	Ruth Harris
2011	MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus	Art Spiegelman	[39][40]
2012	Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane	Gerald Sorin
2013	An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir	Phyllis Chesler	[41][42][43]
2014	The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World	George Prochnik
2015	After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring	Joseph Polak
2016	But You Did Not Come Back: A Memoir	Marceline Loridan-Ivens	[44][45][46][47]
2017	The Choice	Edith Eger
2018	My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace	Ehud Barak
2019	Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love	Dani Shapiro	[48][49][50]
2020	When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains	Ariana Neumann
2021	The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir	Sherry Turkle
2022	Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood	Stephen Mills
2023	Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales	Sabrina Orah Mark	[14]
2024	The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands	Amir Tibon

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.^[51] There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category between 1986 and 2018.^[51]

Biography award winners^[51]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1984	Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire	Dan Kurzman	[52][53]
1985	Martin Buber's Life and Work: The Later Years, 1945-1965	Maurice Friedman	[54]
1986	Chaim Weizmann, The Making of a Zionist Leader	Jehuda Reinharz	[55]
2018	Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom	Ariel Burger	[56]
2019	Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination	David E. Lowe
2020	From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History	Nancy Sinkoff
2021	To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah	Dvora Hacohen
2022	The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World	Jonathan Freedland
2023	Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History	Benjamin Balint	[14]
2024	Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall	Christophe Lebold

Biography and Autobiography

Biography and Autobiography award winners ^[57]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2005	Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace	Masha Gessen	[58][59][60]
2006	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million	Daniel Mendelsohn	[61][62]

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.^[63]

Book Club Award winners^[63]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2016	And After the Fire	Lauren Belfer	[64][65]
2017	The Weight of Ink	Rachel Kadish	[66][67]
2018	The Girl from Berlin	Richard H. Balson
2019	The World That We Knew	Alice Hoffman	[68][69]
2020	The Lost Shtetl	Max Gross
2021	The Hidden Palace	Helene Wecker
2022	Shayna	Miriam Ruth Black
2023	The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store	James McBride	[14]
2024	The Last Dekrepitzer	Howard Langer

Children's and young adults' literature

Children's and young adults' literature award winners^[70]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2004	Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion	Eric A. Kimmel	[71][72][73]
2005	Real Time	Pnina Moed Kass	[74]
2006	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	[75][76][77]
2007	Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel	Marv Wolfman
2008	The Diary of Laura's Twin	Kathy Kacer
2009	The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis	Kim Ablon Whitney
2010	Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania	Haya Leah Molnar	[78]
2011	Deadly	Julie Chibbaro	[79]
2012	Meet at the Ark at Eight	Ulrich Hub	[80]
2013	The War within These Walls	Aline Sax	[81]
2014	Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker	Devra Lehmann	[82]

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).^[83]   The name the awards were known by changed on several occasions over the years:^[83]

• 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 were two winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category and only one winner for the 2002-2003 period.^[83]

Children's Literature award winners^[83]

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator	Ref.
1952	All-of-a-Kind Family	Sydney Taylor	Helen John	[84][85][86]
1953	Stories of King David	Lillian S. Freehof		[87]
1954	The Jewish People: Book III	Deborah Pessin
1958	The Junior Jewish Encyclopedia	Naomi Ben-Asher and Hayim Leaf
1959	Border Hawk: August Bondi	Lloyd Alexander	Bernard Krigstein	[88]
1960	Keys to a Magic Door: Isaac Leib Peretz	Sylvia Rothchild
1961	Discovering Israel	Regina To
1962	Ten and a Kid	Sadie Rose Weilerstein
1963	Return to Freedom	Josephine Kamm
1964	A Boy of Old Prague	Sulamith Ish-Kishor	Ben Shahn
1965	Worlds Lost and Found: Discoveries in Biblical Archeology	Azriel Louis Eisenberg and Dov Peretz Elkins	Charles Pickard	[89]
1966	The Dreyfus Affair	Betty Schechter
1967	The Story of Israel	Meyer Levin
1970	Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time; The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist	Charlie May Simon
1970	The Story of Masadah, by Yigael Yadin: Retold for Young Readers	Gerald Gottlieb
1971	Journey to America	Sonia Levitin	Charles Robinson	[90]
1972	The Master of Miracle: A New Novel of the Golem	Sulamith Ish-Kishor	Arnold Lobel
1973	The Upstairs Room	Johanna Reiss		[91][92]
1974	Uncle Misha's Partisans	Yuri Suhl
1975	The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance	Bea Stadtler and Morrison David Bial	David S. Martin
1976	Haym Salomon Liberty's Son	Shirley Gorson Milgrim
1977	Rifka Grows Up	Chaya M. Burstein
1978	Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust	Milton Meltzer		[93][94]
1980	Dita Saxova	Arnošt Lustig		[95]
1981	A Russian Farewell	Leonard Everett Fisher
1982	The Night Journey	Kathryn Lasky
1983	King of the Seventh Grade	Barbara Cohen		[96]
1984	The Jewish Kids Catalog	Chaya M. Burstein
1985	Good If It Goes	Gary Provost and Gail Levine-Friedus		[97]
1986	In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944	Linda Atkinson
1987	Monday in Odessa	Eileen Bluestone Sherman
1988	The Return	Sonia Levitin		[98][99]
1989	The Devil's Arithmetic	Jane Yolen		[100][101]
1990	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry		[102][103][104]
1991	Becoming Gershona	Nava Semel and Seymour Simckes (trans.)		[105]
1992	The Man from the Other Side	Uri Orlev  and Hillel Halkin, (trans.)		[106]
1993	Letters from Rifka	Karen Hesse
1994	Golden Windows and Other Stories of Jerusalem	Adèle Geras		[107]
1995	Under the Domim Tree	Gila Almagor and Hillel Schenker		[108]
1996	Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories	Howard Schwartz
1997	The Golem: A Version	Barbara Rogasky	Trina Schart Hyman
1998	Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle	Norman H. Finkelstein
1999	With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish	Sandy Asher (ed.)
2000	The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic	Howard Schwartz
2001	Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience	Norman H. Finkelstein
2002-2003	Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury	Ilene Cooper	Elivia Savadier
2015	Oskar and the Eight Blessings	Tanya Simon and Richard Simon	Mark Siegel	[109][110]
2016	I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark	Debbie Levy	Elizabeth Baddeley	[111][112][113][114][115][116]
2017	The Language of Angels	Richard Michelson	Karla Gudeon	[117]
2018	All Three Stooges	Erica S. Perl
2019	Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story	Lesléa Newman	Amy June Bates	[118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127]

 

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^[128] There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Picture Book category in 1984, 1995 and 1996.^[128]

Children's Picture Book award winners^[128]

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator	Ref.
1983	Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story	Barbara Cohen
1985	Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks	Amy Schwartz
1986	Brothers: A Hebrew Legend	Florence B. Freedman	Andrew Parker
1987	Poems for Jewish Holidays	Myra Livingston	Lloyd Bloom
1988	Exodus	Miriam Chaikin	Charles Mikolaycak
1989	Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale	Barbara Diamond Goldin	Seymour Chwast	[129]
1990	Berchick	Esther Silverstein Blanc	Tennessee Dixon
1991	Hanukkah!	Roni Schotter	Marylin Hafner
1992	Chicken Man	Michelle Edwards
1993	Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas	Michael J. Rosen	Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson	[130]
1994	The Always Prayer Shawl	Sheldon Oberman	Ted Lewin
1997	Marven of the Great North Woods	Kathryn Lasky	Kevin Hawkes
1998	You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks	Francine Prose	Mark Podwal
1999	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback		[131][132]
2000	Moishe's Miracle: A Hanukkah Story	Laura Krauss Melmed	David Slonim
2001	The Littlest Pair	Sylvia Rouss	Holly Harmon
2023	Two New Years	Richard Ho	Lynn Scurfield	[14]
2024	Sharing Shalom	Danielle Sharkan	Selina Alko

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 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.^[133]

Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices award winners^[133]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1988	Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage	Paul Cowan
1989	Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America	Jonathan Kaufman
1990	Prayer & Community: The Havurah in American Judaism	Riv-Ellen Prell
1991	Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World	Daniel Judah Elazar
1992	Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism	Lynn Davidman
1993	Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America	William B. Helmreich
1994	A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America	Jack Wertheimer
2002	To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics	Elliot N. Dorff	[134][135]
2004	The Blessing of a Broken Heart	Sherri Mandell	[136][137][138]
2005	The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year	Scott-martin Kosofsky
2006	FRAGMENTED FAMILIES: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation	Ellen Sucov
2007	Inventing Jewish Ritual	Vanessa L. Ochs	[139][140]
2008	Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey	Harold M. Schulweis	[141][142][143]
2009	Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End	Daniel Gordis	[144][145][146][147][148]
2010	Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation	Martin Fletcher	[149][150]
2011	A Guide to Jewish Practice, Vol. 1: Everyday Living	David A. Teutsch
2012	Davening: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer	Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
2013	Kaddish: Women's Voices	Michal Smart
2015	All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir	Shulem Deen	[151][152][153][154]
2016	Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change	David Jaffe	[155][156][157]
2017	The Torah of Music	Joey Weisenberg
2018	The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law	Leon Wiener Dow
2019	How to Fight Anti-Semitism[158][2]	Bari Weiss
2020	Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love	Arthur Green
2021	People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present	Dara Horn
2022	On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World	Danya Ruttenberg
2023	Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole	Julia Watts Belser	[14]
2024	The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud	Gila Fine

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.

Contemporary Jewish thought and experience award winner

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2002-2003	A Jew in America: My Life and A People's Struggle for Identity	Arthur Hertzberg	[159][160][161][162][163]

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 were no prizes awarded from 2004 to 2009.^[164]

Debut Fiction award winners^[164]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2002-2003	In the Image	Dara Horn	[165][166]
2010	Rich Boy	Sharon Pomerantz
2011	Boxer, Beetle	Ned Beauman	[167][168][169][170]
2012	The Sensualist	Daniel Torday
2013	The Lion Seeker	Kenneth Bonert	[171][172][173]
2014	The Mathematician's Shiva	Stuart Rojstaczer	[174][175]
2015	The Boatmaker	John Benditt
2016	Anna and the Swallow Man	Gavriel Savit
2017	Barren Island	Carol Zoref
2018	The Book of Dirt	Bram Presser	[176][177][178]
2019	Naamah	Sarah Blake	[179][180][181]
2020	Florence Adler Swims Forever	Rachel Beanland
2021	A Play for the End of the World	Jai Chakrabarti
2022	Abomination	Ashley Goldberg
2023	All-Night Pharmacy	Ruth Madievsky	[14]
2024	The Safekeep	Yael van der Wouden

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 were no winners in this category in 2001, 2003, and 2004.^[182]

Eastern European Studies award winners^[182]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2000	Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies: Special Issue on Ethnic Stereotypes	Antony Polonsky	[183]
2002	Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee	Joshua Rubenstein
2005	The Jewish Century	Yuri Slezkine	[184][185][186]
2006	Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968	Marci Shore	[187][188][189]
2007	An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two-Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose And Poetry	Maxim Shrayer	[190]

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 has been presented in memory of Dorothy Kripke since 2008.^[191]

Education and Jewish Identity award winners^[191]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2006	Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience	Faydra Shapiro
2008	What We Now Know About Jewish Education	Roberta Louis Goodman
2010	Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to Visionary	Isa Aron
2012	Development, Learning, and Community: Educating for Identity in Pluralistic Jewish High Schools	Jeffrey Kress
2013	Educating in the divine image : gender issues in Orthodox Jewish day schools	Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman
2015	Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli	Ted Merwin
2016	Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations	Mike Uram
2017	The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age	Steven Weitzman
2018	The "Talmud": A Biography	Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
2019	Antisemitism: Here and Now	Deborah Lipstadt	[2][192][193]
2020	Hebrew Infusion	Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan B. Krasner and Sharon Avni
2021	Jewish Cultural Studies	Simon J. Bronner
2022	My Second-Favorite Country	Sivan Zakai
2023	Israel 201: Your Next-Level Guide to the Magic, Mystery, and Chaos of Life in the Holy Land	Joel Chasnoff and Benji Lovitt	[14]
2024	Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew	Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby

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.^[194]

English poetry award winners^[194]

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

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.^[195]

Jewish Book of the Year award winners^[195]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2002	Six Days of War	Michael B. Oren	[196][197][198]
2004	American Judaism: A History	Jonathan D. Sarna	[199][200]
2005	A Tale of Love and Darkness	Amos Oz	[201][202][203][204]
2006	A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy	Joseph Telushkin	[205]
2007	How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now	James L. Kugel	[206]
2008	The Torah: A Women's Commentary	Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
2009	Louis D. Brandeis: A Life	Melvin Urofsky	[207][208][209]
2010	When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry	Gal Beckerman
2011	Jerusalem: The Biography	Simon Sebag Montefiore	[210][211][212]
2012	City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York	Deborah Dash Moore	[213][214]
2013	Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation	Yossi Klein Halevi	[215][216][217][218]
2014	Jewish Lives Series	Ileene Smith (editorial director)
2015	Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947	Bruce Hoffman	[219][220][221]
2016	Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn	Daniel Gordis	[222][223][147][148]
2017	Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel	Francine Klagsbrun	[224][225][226]
2018	Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld	Beate Klarsfeld	[227][228][229]
2019	America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today	Pamela Nadell	[230][231][232]
2020	Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times	Joseph Telushkin
2021	To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah	Dvora Hacohen
2022	Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew	Michael W. Twitty	[233]
2023	Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance	Jeremy Eichler	[14]
2024	10/7: 100 Human Stories	Lee Yaron

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.^[234]

Fiction award winners^[234]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1950	The Wall	John Hersey	[235][236]
1951	The Son of the Lost Son	Soma Morgenstern	[237]
1952	Quiet Street	Zelda Popkin
1953	The Juggler	Michael Blankfort	[238][239]
1954	In the Morning Light	Charles Angoff	[240]
1955	Blessed Is The Land	Louis Zara	[241][242][243]
1957	Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo	Lion Feuchtwanger	[244]
1958	The Assistant	Bernard Malamud
1960	Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories	Philip Roth
1961	The Human Season	Edward Lewis Wallant
1962	Wedding Band	Samuel Yellen
1963	The Slave	Isaac Bashevis Singer
1964	The King's Persons	Joanne Greenberg
1965	The Town Beyond the Wall	Elie Wiesel
1966	The Stronghold	Meyer Levin
1967	The Well	Chaim Grade
1969	Memory of Autumn	Charles Angoff
1970	Waiting for the News	Leo Litwak
1972	The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories	Cynthia Ozick
1973	Somewhere Else	Robert Kotlowitz
1974	Judah the Pious	Francine Prose
1975	White Eagle, Dark Skies	Jean Karsavina
1976	Other People's Lives	Johanna Kaplan
1977	Bloodshed and Three Novellas	Cynthia Ozick
1978	The Yeshiva	Chaim Grade
1979	Leah's Journey	Gloria Goldreich
1980	The Apathetic Bookie Joint	Daniel Fuchs
1981	O My America!	Johanna Kaplan
1982	Ellis Island and Other Stories	Mark Helprin
1983	Temple	Robert Greenfield
1984	An Admirable Woman	Arthur A. Cohen
1985	Invisible Mending	Frederick Busch
1986	The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S. (Jewish Lives)	Arnošt Lustig
1988	The Counterlife	Philip Roth
1989	The Immortal Bartfuss	Aharon Appelfeld
1990	Five Seasons	A. B. Yehoshua
1991	The Gift of Asher Lev	Chaim Potok
1992	Rosendorf Quartet	Nathan Shaham
1993	Mr. Mani	A. B. Yehoshua
1994	The Prince of West End Avenue	Alan Isler
1995	Mazel	Rebecca Goldstein
1996	Gangsters	Evan Zimroth
1997	The Actual	Saul Bellow
1998	The Iron Tracks	Aharon Appelfeld
1999	The Wedding Jester	Steve Stern
2000	The Human Stain	Philip Roth
2001	Everything Is Illuminated	Jonathan Safran Foer
2002-2003	The Russian Debutante's Handbook	Gary Shteyngart
2004	Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories	Marjorie Sandor
2005	The Final Solution. A Story of Detection	Michael Chabon
2006	The World to Come	Dara Horn
2007	A Pigeon and a Boy	Meir Shalev
2008	Songs for the Butcher's Daughter	Peter Manseau
2009	Gratitude	Joseph Kertes
2010	To the End of the Land	David Grossman
2011	Until the Dawn's Light	Aharon Appelfeld
2012	The Innocents	Francesca Segal
2013	Between Friends	Amos Oz
2014	The Betrayers	David Bezmozgis
2014	To Rise Again at a Decent Hour	Joshua Ferris
2015	The Last Flight of Poxl West	Daniel Torday
2016	The Gustav Sonata	Rose Tremain
2017	A Horse Walks Into a Bar	David Grossman
2018	The Last Watchman of Old Cairo	Michael David Lukas
2019	Fly Already: Stories	Etgar Keret	[2][245]
2020	Apeirogon	Colum McCann
2021	The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family	Joshua Cohen
2022	Signal Fires	Dani Shapiro
2023	The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store	James McBride	[14]
2024	Songs for the Brokenhearted	Ayelet Tsabari

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.^[246]

Food Writing and Cookbook award winners^[246]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2019	Jewish Cuisine in Hungary. A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes	Andras Koerner	[2]
2020	Now for Something Sweet	Monday Morning Cooking Club
2021	Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews	Esther David
2022	Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy	Benedetta Jasmine Guetta
2023	Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met At Dubrow's Cafeteria	Marcia Bricker Halperin	[14]
2024	Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig	Jordan D. Rosenblum

Hebrew Fiction in Translation

Hebrew Fiction in Translation award winners^[247]

Year	Title	Author	Translator	Ref.
2022	Love	Maayan Eitan	Maayan Eitan
2023	Operation Bethlehem	Yariv Inbar	Dalit Shmueli	[14]
2024	The Hebrew Teacher	Maya Arad	Jessica Cohen

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.^[248]

History award winners^[248]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2006	Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer"	David Cesarani	[249][250][251][252][253][254]
2007	Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft	Michael Makovsky
2008	1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War	Benny Morris	[255][256][257]
2009	Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America	Beryl Satter	[258][259]
2010	Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History	David B. Ruderman	[260][261]
2011	The Anatomy of Israel's Survival	Hirsh Goodman
2012	Israel: A History (The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies)	Anita Shapira	[262][263]
2013	My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel	Ari Shavit	[264][265][266][267]
2014	The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe	Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern	[268][269][270][271]
2015	Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama	Dennis Ross	[272]
2016	The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel	Uri Bar-Joseph	[273][274][275][276]
2017	The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew	Yair Mintzker
2018	Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations	Ronen Bergman	[277][278][279]
2019	The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America	Daniel Okrent	[280][281][282][283]
2020	The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects	Laura Arnold Leibman
2021	The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France	James McAuley
2022	An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland	Kenneth B. Moss
2023	Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance	Jeremy Eichler	[14]
2024	Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy	Jonathan Marc Gribetz

Holocaust

Holocaust award winners^[284]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1966	Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer, 1939-1945	Zosa Szajkowski
1968	And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight: The Eichmann Trial, Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Ahrendt's Narrorative	Jacob Robinson
1969	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
1970	Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre, (Fun Yiddishin Theater) YIDDISH ONLY Volume V Only	Zalme Zylberzweig
1972	The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration & the Holocaust 1938-1945	Henry L. Feingold
1975	Judenrat : the Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation	Isaiah Trunk
1976	Jerusalem of Lithuania: illustrated and documeted	Leyzer Ran
1978	The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps	Terrence Des Pres
1979	Deliverance Day: The Last Hours at Dachau	Michael Selzer
1980	Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation	Benjamin B. Ferencz
1981	The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary	Randolph L. Braham
1982	Vichy France and the Jews	Michael R. Marrus
1983	None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948	Irving M. Abella
1984	Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944	Emil Dorian
1985	The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945	David S. Wyman
1987	The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide	Robert Jay Lifton
1988	The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival	Susan Zuccotti
1989	Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War	Christopher Simpson
1990	A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto	Abraham Lewin
1991	The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945	Leni Yahil
1992	Women in the Holocaust	Dalia Ofer
1993	The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning	James E. Young
1994	Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland	Christopher R. Browning
1995	We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin	Paul R. Wilson (trans.)
1996	Auschwitz	Debórah Dwork
1997	The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1939	Saul Friedländer	[285]
1998	Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany	Marion A. Kaplan
1999	Reading the Holocaust	Inga Clendinnen
2000	Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945	Evan Burr Bukey
2002-2003	Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust	Nechama Tec
2004	The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942	Christopher R. Browning
2005	History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier	Deborah E. Lipstadt
2006	The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust	Jeffrey Herf
2007	Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State	Götz Aly
2008	The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews	Patrick Desbois
2009	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
2010	Remembering Survival. Inside a Nazi Slave-labor Camp	Christopher R. Browning
2011	Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice	Gerald Steinacher
2012	Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford Series on History and Archives)	Laura Jockusch
2013	The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary	Randolph L. Braham
2014	Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour	James A. Grymes	[286]
2015	The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne	Anna Bikont
2016	Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World	Michael Bazyler
2017	The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis	David E. Fishman	[287][288]
2018	Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz	Omer Bartov
2019	The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between	Michael Dobbs
2020	The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help	Faris Cassell
2021	The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed	Wendy Lower
2022	The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World	Jonathan Freedland
2023	Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance	Jeremy Eichler	[14]
2024	Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish	Hannah Pollin-Galay

Holocaust Memoir Award

Holocaust Memoir award winners^[289]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2022	One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World	Michael Frank	[290]
2023	The Ghost Tattoo	Tony Bernard	[14]
2024	Warsaw Testament	Samuel Kassow

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.^[291]

Illustrated Children's Book award winners^[291]

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator	Ref.
2004	Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen	Michelle R. McCann and Luba Tryszynska-Frederick		[292][293]
2005	The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century	Uri Shulevitz		[294][295][296][297]
2006	The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac	Mordicai Gerstein		[298][299]
2007	Even Higher	Richard Ungar		[300]
2008	The Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story	Eric A. Kimmel	Katya Krenina	[301][302][303][304]
2009	JPS illustrated children's Bible	Ellen Frankel	Avi Katz
2010	The Rooster Prince of Beslov	Ann Redisch Stampler	Eugene Yelchin	[305][306]
2011	The Golem's Latkes	Eric A. Kimmel	Aaron Jasinski	[307][308][302][303]
2012	The Shema in the Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other	Sandy Eisenberg Sasso	Joani Keller Rothenberg	[309][310][311]
2013	Hanukkah Bear	Eric A. Kimmel	Mike Wohnoutka	[312][302][303]
2014	The Patchwork Torah (Sukkot & Simchat Torah)	Allison Ofanansky	Elsa Oriol	[313]

Israel

Israel award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1974	The Question of Palestine: British-Jewish-Arab Relations 1914-1918	Isaiah Friedman
1975	The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc, 1947-53	Arnold Krammer
1976	American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust	Melvin I. Urofsky
1977	A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time	Howard Sachar	[314]
1978	Letters to an American Jewish friend: A Zionist's polemic	Hillel Halkin
1979	Raquela: A Woman of Israel	Ruth Gruber
1980	The Habima, Israel's National Theater, 1917-1977: A Study of Cultural Nationalism	Emanuel Levy	[315]
1982	Egypt and Israel	Howard Sachar	[314]
1983	Among Lions: The Definitive Account of the 1967 Battle for Jerusalem	J. Robert Moskin
1984	Israel in the Mind of America	Peter Grose
1985	From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine	Joan Peters
1986	The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan	Steven L. Spiegel
1987	A Walker in Jerusalem	Samuel C. Heilman
1988	Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground, 1886-1948	Shabtai Teveth
1989	Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound	Haim Chertok
1990	A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the Plo	Harris Okun Schoenberg
1991	The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925	Sergio I. Minerbi
1992	The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations	Itamar Rabinovich
1993	Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948	Anita Shapira
1994	Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism	Steven J. Zipperstein
1995	Beyond The Promised Land: Jews And Arabs On The Hard Road To A New Israel	Glenn Frankel
1996	The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma	Geoffrey Wheatcroft
1997	Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel	Yaron Ezrahi
1998	Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective	Nissim Rejwan
1999	The Multiple Identities of the Middle East	Bernard Lewis
2000	One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate	Tom Segev

Jewish education

The awards in the Jewish Education category, the Leon Jolson Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject.^[316]

Jewish Education award winners^[316]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1994	Studies in Jewish Education, volume 5 Educational Issues and Classical Jewish Texts	Howard Deitcher and Abraham J. Tannenbaum
1997	Succeeding at Jewish Education: How One Synagogue Made It Work	Joseph B. Reimer	[317]
1998	First Fruit: A Whizin Anthology of Jewish Family Education	Ronald Wolfson
1999	Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education	Carol K. Ingall
2001	Reclaiming Goodness	Hanan Alexander
2004	Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice	Barry W. Holtz

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.^[318]

Jewish Family Literature award winners^[318]

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

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.^[319]

Jewish Folklore and Anthropology award winners^[319]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1993	Hasidic People: A Place in the New World	Jerome Mintz	[320]
1994	Folklore of the Sephardic Jews, volume III	Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman
1995	Chosen Tales: Stories Told by Jewish Storytellers	Peninnah Schram

Jewish history

Jewish History award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1963	The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914, Revised edition	Moses Rischin
1973	A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900	Arthur J. Zuckerman
1974	The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800	Bernard D. Weinryb
1976	The Myth of the Jewish Race	Raphael Patai
1977	World of Our Fathers	Irving Howe
1978	On the Edge of Destruction : Jews of Poland between the Two World Wars	Celia Stopnicka Heller
1980	The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society	Todd M. Endelman
1981	Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, Ca. 1065–1126	Mark R. Cohen
1982	The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol	David B. Ruderman
1983	Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory	Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
1984	Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish society in Russia, 1825-1855	Michael Stanislawski
1985	Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914	Naomi Wiener Cohen
1986	Religious Conflict in Social Context: The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in Frankfurt am Main, 1838-1877	Robert Liberles
1987	Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History	David Biale
1988	European Jewry and the First Crusade	Robert Chazan
1989	Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism	Michael A. Meyer
1990	The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia	Eli Lederhendler
1991	The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies	Elisheva Carlebach Jofen
1992	The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany	Marion A. Kaplan
1993	Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality	Naomi W. Cohen
1994	Antisemitism in America	Leonard Dinnerstein
1995	The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950	Jenna Weissman Joselit
1996	Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov	Moshe Rosman
1997	German-Jewish History in Modern Times, volume 4: Renewal and Destruction, 1918–1945	Michael A. Meyer
1998	Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (The Modern Jewish Experience)	Miriam Bodian
1999	Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 [exhibition]	Emily D. Bilski
2002	Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History	James Carroll
2002-2003	Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent	Gerald Sorin
2004	And the Dead Shall Rise	Steve Oney
2005	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950	Mark Mazower

Jewish Thought

Jewish Thought award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1949	Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	Harry Austryn Wolfson
1950	The Jews in Medieval Germany: A Study of Their Legal and Social Status	Guido Kisch
1964	Judaism: Profile of a Faith	Ben-Zion Bokser
1965	Ancient Jewish Philosophy	Israel Efros
1966	The Higher Freedom: A New Turning Point in Jewish History	David Polish
1967	Understanding Genesis	Nahum M. Sarna
1968	The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824	Michael A. Meyer
1969	Quest for Past and Future: Essays in Jewish Theology	Emil L. Fackenheim
1970	Israel: An Echo of Eternity	Abraham Joshua Heschel
1971	The Religion of Ethical Nationhood: Judaism's Contribution to World Peace	Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
1972	Jewish Worship	Abraham E. Millgram
1973	Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters	Elie Wiesel
1973	Two Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible	Samuel Sandmel
1974	The Mask Jews Wear: The Self-Deceptions of American Jewry	Eugene B. Borowitz
1975	Major Themes in Modern Philosophies of Judaism	Eliezer Berkovits
1976	Contemporary Reform Responsa	Solomon Bennett Freehof
1977	Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest	David Hartman
1978	The Jewish Mind	Raphael Patai
1979	Love and Sex: A Modern Jewish Perspective	Robert Gordis
1980	Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History	David Biale
1981	Introduction to the Code of Maimonides	Isadore Twersky
1982	The Art of Biblical Narrative	Robert Alter
1983	Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: The Career and Controversies of Ramah	Bernard Septimus
1984	Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought	Steven T. Katz
1985	Halakhic Man	Joseph B. Soloveitchik
1986	A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism	David Hartman
1987	Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming	Arnold M. Eisen
1988	The Orphaned Adult: Confronting the Death of a Parent	Marc D. Angel
1989	Commandments and Concerns	Michael Rosenak
1990	Jewish Preaching, 1200-1800: An Anthology	Marc Saperstein
1991	Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew	Neil Gillman
1992	Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable	Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
1993	Women as Ritual Experts	Susan Starr Sered
1994	The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism	Michael Fishbane	[321]
1996	Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud`s Myth	Robert A. Paul
1997	Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters	Rodger Kamenetz
1998	Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics	Rachel Adler	[322]
1999	Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary	Norman Lamm
2000	A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion	Jonathan Sacks	[323][324]
2001	When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son	Samuel C. Heilman

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.^[325]

Jewish-Christian Relations award winners^[325]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1995	Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995	Pope John Paul II
1996	The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's Letter	Mark D. Nanos
1997	The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara	David I. Kertzer	[326]
1998	Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus	Susannah Heschel	[327][328]
1999	Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity	Paula Fredriksen	[329]
2000	Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy	Susan Zuccotti	[330][331][332]
2002	Jazz Age Jews	Michael Alexander	[333][334]

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.

Mentorship award winners^[335]

Year	Winner
2017	Gary Rosenblatt
2018	Susan Shapiro
2019	Dena W. Neusner
2020	Deborah Harris
2021	Bonny V. Fetterman
2022	Ellen Frankel
2023	Altie Karper
2024	Aaron Lansky

Middle Grade Literature

Middle Grade Literature award winners^[336]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2020	The Blackbird Girls	Anne Blankman
2021	Linked	Gordon Korman
2022	The Prince of Steel Pier	Stacy Nockowitz
2023	The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman	Mari Lowe	[14]
2024	Finn and Ezra’s Bar Mitzvah Time Loop	Joshua S. Levy

Modern Jewish thought and experience

Modern Jewish Thought and Experience award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2004	The Zohar: Pritzker Edition volume 1	Daniel C. Matt
2006	The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life	Shuly Rubin Schwartz
2007	My People's Prayer Book Series	Lawrence A. Hoffman
2008	Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher's Response to the Holocaust (Philosophy)	David Patterson
2009	Genesis: The Book of Beginnings	Jonathan Sacks
2010	The Koren Mesorat Harav Kinot	Joseph B. Soloveitchik
2011	The Choice To Be: A Jewish Path to Self and Spirituality	Jeremy Kagan
2012	Koren Talmud Bavli, Vol. 1:Tractate Berakhot, Hebrew/English, Standard (Color) (English and Hebrew Edition)	Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
2013	The Koren Pesah Mahzor = [Mahzor Koren le-Fesah]	Jonathan Sacks	[337]
2005	After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses To Modernity	David Harry Ellenson
2014	Ani Tefilla Weekday Siddur: Ashkenaz (Hebrew/English Edition)	Jay Goldmintz
2015	Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence	Jonathan Sacks
2018	Does Judaism Condone Violence?: Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition	Alan L. Mittleman
2019	Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets	Elissa Bemporad
2020	Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times	Jonathan Sacks
2021	Torah in a Time of Plague: Historical and Contemporary Jewish Responses	Erin Leib Smokler (ed.)
2022	Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center	Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
2023	The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19	Jeremy Brown	[14]
2024	Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life	Joshua Leifer

 

Non-fiction

Nonfiction award winners^[338]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1995	The Beginning of Desire	Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg	[339]
1996	Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin	David Horovitz
1997	Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America	Ruth Gay	[340]
1998	Kaddish	Leon Wieseltier
1999	Yosl Rakover Talks to God	Zvi Kolitz
2000	Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry	Samuel G. Freedman	[341]
2001	Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary	David L. Lieber	[342]

 

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.^[343]

Poetry award winners^[343]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2005	Everything is Burning: Poems	Gerald Stern
2007	The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492	Peter Cole
2009	The Book of Seventy (Pitt Poetry Series)	Alicia Ostriker
2011	Wait: Poems	C. K. Williams
2013	Who Touches Everything	Peter Waldor
2015	Gabriel: A Poem	Edward Hirsch	[344]
2016	"Almost Complete Poems"	Stanley Moss
2017	Waiting for the Light (Pitt Poetry Series)	Alicia Ostriker	[345]
2018	Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum)	Erika Meitner
2019	Deaf Republic	Ilya Kaminsky
2020	Nautilus and Bone	Lisa Richter
2021	The Book of Anna	Joy Ladin	[346]
2022	Today in the Taxi	Sean Singer
2023	When There Was Light	Carlie Hoffman	[14]
2024	The Story of Your Obstinate Survival	Daniel Khalastchi

References

References award winners^[347]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1999	The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning	Eli Yassif	[348]
2000	Reader's Guide to Judaism	Michael Terry (ed.)
2002	The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust	Shmuel Spector (ed.-in-chief) and Geoffrey Wigoder (consulting ed.)	[349]
2005	Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism	Howard Schwartz
2007	The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period	Steven T. Katz

Scholarship

Scholarship award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1983	The Friars and the Jews: Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism	Jeremy Cohen
1984	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
1985	The Wars of the Lord (Vol. 1)	Levi ben Gershom
1986	Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel	Michael Fishbane
1987	Sifre: A Tannaitic Commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy	Reuven Hammer
1988	Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe	Daniel M. Friedenberg
1989	Kabbalah: New Perspectives	Moshe Idel
1990	"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It": The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text	Jeremy Cohen
1991	History, Religion, and Antisemitism (Centennial Book)	Gavin I. Langmuir
1992	From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy	Steven D. Fraade
1993	Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages	Ephraim Kanarfogel
1994	Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles	Menachem Elon
1995	Through a Speculum That Shines	Elliot R. Wolfson
1996	Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn: Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Preaching	Marc Saperstein
1997	Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses	David Weiss Halivni
1998	Entering the High Holy Days: A Guide to Origins, Themes, and Prayers	Reuven Hammer
1999	Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity	Jeremy Cohen
2000	The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture	Ruth R. Wisse	[350][351]
2001	Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.	Seth Schwartz
2002-2003	The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies	Martin Goodman
2004	The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation	Adele Berlin
2005	Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination	Elliot R. Wolfson
2006	Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life	Jon D. Levenson
2007	Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism	Moshe Idel
2008	The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900	Adam Shear
2009	Subversive Sequels in the Bible	Judy Klitsner
2010	From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)	Dan Miron
2011	Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures	Talya Fishman
2012	The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492	Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
2013	Maimonides: Life and Thought	Moshe Halbertal
2014	Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture	Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel and Lawrence H. Schiffman
2015	What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives	Christine Hayes
2016	Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response 1391 – 1392	Benjamin R. Gampel
2017	Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)	Dov Weiss
2018	Historical Atlas of Hasidism	Marcin Wodziński
2019	Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic	Eric Lawee
2020	Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism	Sarit Kattan Gribetz
2021	Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel	Katell Berthelot
2022	The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth	Jay Michaelson
2023	Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture	Mira Balberg	[14]
2024	Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity	Simcha Gross

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.^[352]

Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs award winners^[352]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1997	The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York	Claudia Roden	[353][354]
1998	A Time to Be Born	Michele Klein
1999	A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews	David M. Gitlitz and Linda Kay Davidson	[355]
2000	Synagogues Without Jews	Rivka Dorfman	[356]
2001	The Jewish Cultural Tapestry	Steven M. Lowenstein

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.^[357]

Sephardic Culture award winners^[357]

date	Title	Author	Ref.
2005	The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature	Ilan Stavans (ed.)
2006	Folktales of the Jews, Vol. 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion	Dan Ben-Amos
2007	Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews	Poopa Dweck	[358][359][360][361]
2008	Greece: A Jewish History	Katherine Elizabeth Fleming
2009	We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands	Rachel Shabi
2010	Yehuda Halevi (Jewish Encounters Series)	Hillel Halkin
2011	Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine	Michelle Campos
2012	Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)	Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
2013	Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song	Maureen Jackson
2014	Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700 – 1950	Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.)
2015	Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492	David A. Wacks	[362]
2016	Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century	Sarah Abrevaya Stein	[363]
2017	Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco	Jessica M. Marglin
2018	Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean	Jonathan Decter	[364][365]
2019	Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria	Joshua Cole
2020	Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora	Devi Mays
2021	The Memory Work of Jewish Spain	Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa
2022	One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World	Michael Frank
2023	Kantika	Elizabeth Graver	[14]
2024	Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community	Aviad Moreno

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.^[366]

Sephardic Studies award winners^[366]

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1992	The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain	Ross Brann	[367]
1993	The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience	Jane S. Gerber
1994	North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria	Michael M. Laskier
1995	The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain	Benzion Netanyahu
1996	Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jews	David M. Gitlitz	[368]
1998	The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture	Robert Brody
1999	Heretics or Daughters of Israel?: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile	Renee Levine Melammed
2000	Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews Of Seventeenth-century Amsterdam	Daniel M. Swetschinski
2001	Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)	Judah Alharizi with David Simha Segal (trans.)

Visual Arts

Visual Arts award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1981	Purim: The Face and the Mask	Yeshiva University Museum
1982	Art of the Holocaust	Janet Blatter
1983	Israel in Antiquity: From David to Herod	Andrew S. Ackerman
1984	A Vanished World	Roman Vishniac
1985	The Rothschild Mahzor - Florence, 1492	Evelyn M. Cohen
1986	Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning	Carol Herselle Krinsky
1987	Jewish Folk Art: From Biblical Days to Modern Times	Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson
1988	The Jewish Image in American Film	Lester D. Friedman
1989	A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts	Leonard Singer Gold
1990	The Jews in America	David Cohen
1991	Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library	Shalom Sabar
1992	Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900-1945: A Tribute to the Educational Alliance Art School	Norman L. Kleeblatt
1993	The Jews: A Treasury of Art and Literature	Sharon R. Keller
1994	Jewish Papercuts: A History and Guide	Joseph Shadur
1995	Jewish Art	Grace Cohen Grossman
1996	And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World	Neil Folberg	[369]
1997	Judaica at the Smithsonian : Cultural Politics as Cultural Model	Grace Cohen Grossman
2004	Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set)	Frédéric Brenner
2005	Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation (Jewish Museum)	Emily D. Bilski
2007	Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions	Murray Zimiles
2009	Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976	Norman L. Kleeblatt
2011	Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention (Jewish Museum)	Mason Klein
2013	Kabbalah in Art and Architecture	Alexander Gorlin
2015	Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts	Marc Michael Epstein
2017	Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art	Irvin Ungar
2019	Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art	Rebecca Shaykin
2022	Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation	Liana Finck
2024	101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel	Raquel Ukeles, Hezi Amiur, Yoel Finkelman, Stefan Litt, and Samuel Thrope

Women's Studies

Women's Studies award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
1998	Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (2-volume set)	Paula E. Hyman
2000	Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel	Susan Martha Kahn
2002	Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories	Tikva Frymer-Kensky
2004	Gender and Israeli Society: Women's Time (Journal of Israeli History)	Hannah Naveh
2005	The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt	Ruth Andrew Ellenson
2006	Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism	Shaye J. D. Cohen
2007	Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation	Tova Hartman
2008	A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book	Aliza Lavie	[370]
2009	Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn	Ayala Fader
2010	Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One	Pauline Wengeroff and Shulamit S. Magnus	[371]
2011	The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth	Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky
2012	The Men's Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World	Elana Maryles Sztokman
2013	Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940	Melissa R. Klapper
2014	A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987	Kathryn Hellerstein
2015	Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule	Beverley Chalmers
2016	The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate	Rebecca Einstein Schorr
2018	Never a Native	Alice Shalvi
2019	Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement	Naomi Seidman
2020	The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects	Laura Arnold Leibman
2021	The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos	Judy Battalion
2022	Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages	Elisheva Baumgarten
2023	Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust	Robin Judd	[14]
2024	Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel	Ronit Irsahi and Tanya Zion-Waldoks

Writing Based on Archival Material

Award for Writing Based on Archival Material winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2008	Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945	Martin C. Dean
2009	The Holocaust in the Soviet Union	Yitzhak Arad
2010	The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict	Jonathan Schneer
2011	Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams	Charles King
2012	The History of the Holocaust in Romania	Jean Ancel
2013	Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk	Elissa Bemporad
2014	Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era	Julia Phillips Cohen
2015	The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France	Ethan B. Katz
2016	Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece	Devin E. Naar
2017	Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817 – 1906	Ellie R. Schainker
2018	Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe	Rebecca Erbelding
2019	A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust	Elisabeth Gallas with Alex Skinner (trans.)
2020	Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth	Magda Teter
2021	International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War	Jaclyn Granick
2022	A "Jewish Marshall Plan": The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France	Laura Hobson Faure
2023	Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust	Robin Judd	[14]
2024	The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule	Paris Papamichos Chronakis

Yiddish Language and Culture

Yiddish Language and Culture award winners

Year	Title	Author
1999	Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country	Marek Web and Alter Kacyzne
2000	The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage	Jeffrey Veidlinger
2001	Yiddish: A Nation of Words	Miriam Weinstein

Yiddish Literature

Yiddish Literature award winners

Year	Title	Author
1980	Tsṿishn shmeykhl un ṭrer	Peretz Miransky
1981	Pathways in Yiddish Literature	Hyman Bass
1982	Never Say Die: A Thousand Years of Yiddish in Jewish Life and Letters	Joshua A. Fisherman
1983	Kanader Tidisher Zamlbukh	Chaim Spilberg and Yaacov Zippe
1984	Tsu Di Himlen Arof	Chaim Leib Fox
1985	Fun Ash Un Fayer Iz Dayn Kroyn	Shea Tenebaum

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature award winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref.
2015	The Hired Girl	Laura Amy Schlitz
2016	On Blackberry Hill	Rachel Mann
2017	Refugee	Alan Gratz
2019	Someday We Will Fly	Rachel DeWoskin
2020	The Way Back	Gavriel Savit
2021	Rebel Daughter	Lori Banov Kaufmann
2022	It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II	Susan Wider
2023	The Blood Years	Elana K. Arnold	[14]
2024	Night Owls	A. R. Vishny

Uncategorized

Uncategorized winners

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

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