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Dear Safranim.
This evening, on Wednesday, April 26, The Jewish
Book Council will announce and award the National
Jewish Book Awards at Manhattan;s Cebter for
Jewish History. Ari L. Goldman and Samuel G.
Freedman will serve as masters of ceremonies.
The top award will be presented to Amos Oz for A
Tale of Love and Darkness . Michael Chabon will
receive the Fiction Prize for The Final
Solution. The awards are administered by the Jewish Book Council
2005 National Jewish Book Award Winners
SPECIAL AWARD
Everett Family Foundation
Jewish Book of the Year Award
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz (Harcourt)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
WINNER
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate)
Runners up:
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin)
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE
Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of
Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
WINNER
After Emancipation by David Ellenson (HUC Press)
Runners up:
Autobiographical Jews by Michael Stanislawski (Univ. of Washington Press)
The Way into Tikkun Olam by Elliot Dorff (Jewish Lights)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
WINNER
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton
by Jerome Karabel (Houghton Mifflin)
Runners up:
Jews and the American Soul by Andrew R. Heinze (Princeton University Press)
Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800 by William Pencak
(University of Michigan Press)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN ANTHOLOGIES
WINNER
Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) A Jewish American Writer by
Derek Rubin, ed. (Schocken)
Runners up:
Classic Yiddish Stories of SY Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem and IL Peretz by
Ken Frieden, ed. (Syracuse University Press)
Old Demons, New Debates: Anti-Semitism and the
West by David I. Kertzer, ed.
(Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc.)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
WINNER
Ester and Ruzya by Masha Gessen (Bantam Dell Publishing Group)
Runners up:
A Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld (Schocken Books)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN CHILDRENâS LITERATURE
WINNER
Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass (Clarion Books)
Runners up:
Daniel Half-Human And The Good Nazi by David Chotiewitz (Simon and Schuster)
Double Crossing by Eve Tal (Cinco Puntos)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE AND PRACTICE
WINNER
The Book of Customs by Scott-Martin Kosofsky (HarperSan Francisco)
Runners up:
Love Letters: A Celebration of Jewish Love and Marriage in Words and Images
David Moss, Quotations selected and translated by
Michael Swirsky (Bet Alpha Divisions)
Dignity Beyond Death: The Jewish Preparation for Burial by Rochel U. Berman
(Urim)
Second Chances by Levi Meier (Urim)
How To Keep Kosher by Lise Stern (Wm. Morrow)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES
Ronald S. Lauder Award
WINNER
The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine (Princeton University Press)
Runners up:
Polin, Volume Seventeen: The Shtetyl: Myth and Reality by Antony Polonsky, ed.
(Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture, 1918-1930 by
David Shneer (Cambridge University Press)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY
Gerrard and Ella Berman Award
WINNER
Salonica, City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower (Knopf)
Runners up:
Jewish Renaissance in Spain by Mark Meyerson (Princeton University)
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt by
Mark R. Cohen (Princeton University)
Cruel World by Lynn H. Nicholas (Knopf)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HOLOCAUST STUDIES
WINNER
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah Lipstadt
(Ecco)
Runners up:
Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt (Random House)
Music in the Holocaust by Shirli Gilbert (Oxford University Press)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN ILLUSTRATED CHILDRENâS BOOK
Louis Posner Memorial Award
WINNER
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three
Continents in the Twelfth Century by Uri Shulevitz. (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
Runners up:
Sholomâs Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer by
Erica Silverman; Mordicai Gerstein, illus. (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
The Last Pair of Shoes by Sashi Fridman; Seva,
illus. (Merkos LâInyonei Chinuch, Inc.)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN JEWISH FAMILY LITERATURE
In Memory of Dorothy Kripke
winner
A Box of Candles by Laurie A. Jacobs. Shelly
Ephraim, illus. (Boyds Mills Press)
Runners up:
Wise and Not So Wise: Ten Tales from the Rabbis Selected and Retold by
Phillis Gershator. Alexa Gunzberg, illus. (Jewish Publication Society)
In Godâs Hands by Lawrence Kushner and Gary Schmidt. Matthew J. Baek, illus.
(Jewish Lights)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN POETRY
WINNER
Everything is Burning: Poems by Gerald Stern (WW Norton)
Runners up:
A Sail to Great Island by Alan Feldman (Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Collected Poems, 1954-2004 by Irving Feldman (Random House)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN REFERENCE
WINNER
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz (Oxford Univ. Press)
Runners up:
The Bible with Sources Revealed by Richard
Elliot Friedman (HarperSan Francisco)
Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy by Sallyann Amdur Sack, Gray Mokotoff, eds.
(Avotaynu)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN SCHOLARSHIP
WINNER
Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination by
Elliott R. Wolfson (Fordham University Press)
Runners up:
Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteiraâs
Sermons to a Congregation of âNew Jewsâ
by Marc Saperstein (Hebrew Union College Press)
Kabbalah and Eros by Moshe Idel (Yale University Press)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN SEPHARDIC CULTURE
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy
WINNER
The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature by Ilan Stavans, ed.
(Schocken)
Runners up
Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture by Mattias B. Lehmann
(Indiana University Press)
The Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain by Manuel Da Costa Fontes
(Purdue Univ. Press)
Jubana! The Awkwardly True and Dazzling
Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess by Gigi Anders (Rayo)
Pomegranate Seeds by Nadia Grosser Nagarajan (Univ. of New Mexico Press)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN VISUAL ARTS
WINNER
Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of
Conversation by Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun,
eds. (The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press)
Runners up:
Luminous Art: Hanukkah Menorahs of the Jewish
Museum by Susan L. Braunstein, ed. (New York: The
Jewish Museum and Yale University Press )
Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to
Schottenstein by Sharon Liberman Mintz and
Gabriel M. Goldstein, eds (Yeshiva University Museum)
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN WOMENâS STUDIES
Barbara Dobkin Award
WINNER
The Modern Jewish Girlâs Guide to Guilt by Ruth Andrew Ellenson, Ed.
(Dutton)
Runners up:
Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism by Tamar Ross
(Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England)
Princess or Prisoner: Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914 by Margalit Shilo
(Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England)
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe by
Elisheva Baumgarten (Princeton University Press)
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