myJewishBooks.com ============= I just put up a webpage listing the finalists and winners of the 53rd ANNUAL NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS (Ceremony on December 11, 2003, at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, 7:30 PM)
Located at <www.MyJewishBooks.com/awards03.htm>www.MyJewishBooks.com/awards03.html Top honor - Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year: Michael Oren's Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oxford University Press). Winner, Anthology Cultures of the Jews: A New History by David Biale, ed. (Schocken Books) Winner, Fiction The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart (Riverhead Books) Finalists A Memory of War by Frederick Busch (Norton) Winner, Children and Young Adult Literature Jewish Holidays All Year Round by Irene Cooper (Abrams Books) Winner, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice To Do the Right and the Good by Elliot Dorff (Jewish Publication Society) Finalists Chanting the Hebrew Bible by Joshua Jacobson(Jewish Publication Society) The Golden Land by Joseph Telushkin(Crown) Winner, Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Award, History Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent by George Sorin (NYU Press) Finalists The Butcher's Tale by Helmut Walser Smith (W.W. Norton) Beyond the Pale by Benjamin Nathans(University of California Press) The Pity of It All by Amos Elon(Metropolitan Books) Winner, Holocaust Resilience and Courage by Nehama Tec (Yale University Press) Finalists Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan Van Pelt (W.W. Norton) Why Didn't the Press Shout: American and International Journalism During the Holocaust by Robert Moses Shapiro (KTAV) Winner, Scholarship Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by Martin Goodman (Oxford University Press) Finalists Gentle Impurities and Jewish Identities by Christine E. Hayes (Oxford University Press) The JPS Bible Commentary (Haftarot) by Michael Fishbane (Jewish Publication Society) Winner, Modern Jewish Thought and Experience A Jew in America by Arthur Hertzberg(HarperCollins) Finalists The Fourth Commandment by Francine Klagsbrun (Harmony) Ehyeh by Arthur Green (Jewish Lights) Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award, Women's Studies Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikvah Frymer-Kensky (Schocken) Finalists JPS Guide to Jewish Women by Taitz, Henry & Tallen (Jewish Publication Society) Resilience and Courage by Nechama Tec (Yale University Press) The Woman Who Defied Kings by Andree Aeilon Brooks (Paragon House) Winner, First Time Author Award In the Image by Dara Horn (Norton) Winner, Special Recognition Award Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine (Whitman) ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
