Jewish Book Award Winners
The following are the winners of the 2006 National Jewish Book Awards, announced last week by the Jewish Book Council:
JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
“A Code of Jewish Ethics, Vol. 1: You Shall Be Holy”
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
(Crown Publishing Group)
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AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES
“Emma Lazarus”
Esther Schor
(Schocken/Nextbook)
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ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS
“Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron”
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, ed.
(Yale University Press/The Jewish Museum)
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BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million”
Daniel Mendelsohn
(HarperCollins)
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CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
“The Book Thief”
Markus Zusak
(Random House Children’s Books)
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CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE AND PRACTICE
“Fragmented Families: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation”
Ellen B. Sucov
(Southern Hills Press)
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EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES
“Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968”
Marci Shore
(Yale University Press)
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EDUCATION AND JEWISH IDENTITY
“Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience”
Faydra Shapiro
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)
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FICTION
“The World To Come”
Dara Horn
(W. W. Norton)
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HISTORY
“Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a ‘Desk Murderer’”
David Cesarani
(Da Capo Press)
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HOLOCAUST
“The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust”
Jeffrey Herf
(Harvard University Press)
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ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOKS
“The White Ram: A Story of Abraham and Isaac”
Mordicai Gerstein
(Holiday House)
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JEWISH FAMILY LITERATURE
“Lilith’s Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women”
Deborah Bodin Cohen
(Jewish Publication Society)
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MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE
“The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life”
Shuly Rubin Schwartz
(New York University Press)
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SCHOLARSHIP
“Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life”
Jon D. Levenson
(Yale University Press)
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SEPHARDIC CULTURE
“Folktales of the Jews, Vol. 1: Tales From the Sephardic Dispersion”
Dan Ben-Amos (ed.)
(Jewish Publication Society)
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WOMEN’S STUDIES
“Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism”
Shaye J.D. Cohen
(University of California Press)