Lisa Moses Leff Wins Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
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The Jewish Book Council named Lisa Moses Leff as the winner of the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her book Leff received a $100,000 prize.
The runner-up Choice Award went to Yehudah Mirksy, who wrote Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution and took home $25,000.
The other finalists were Dan Ephron, Aviya Kushner, and Adam D. Mendelsohn.
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