National Jewish Book Awards
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By Year
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By Category
- Jewish Book of the Year
- American Jewish Studies
- Anthologies and Collections
- Autobiography and Memoir
- Biography
- Book Club Award
- Children's Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice
- Debut Fiction
- Education and Jewish Identity
- Fiction
- Food Writing & Cookbooks
- Hebrew Fiction in Translation
- History
- Holocaust
- Holocaust Memoir Award
- Mentorship Award
- Middle Grade Literature
- Modern Jewish Thought and Experience
- Poetry
- Scholarship
- Sephardic Culture
- Visual Arts
- Women's Studies
- Writing Based on Archival Material
- Young Adult Literature
- American Jewish History
- Biography and Autobiography
- Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Children's Picture Book
- Contemporary Jewish Life
- Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience
- Cumulative Contribution to Children's Literature
- Cumulative Contribution to English Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Hebrew Poetry
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish Historic Research and Thought
- Cumulative Contribution to Jewish History
- Cumulative Contribution to Yiddish Poetry
- Eastern European Studies
- Editing and Translationg Yiddish Poetry
- English Poetry
- Hebrew Poetry
- Illustrated Children's Book
- Israel
- JBC Modern Literary Achievement
- Jewish Education
- Jewish Family Literature
- Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
- Jewish History
- Jewish Thought
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Lifetime Achievement
- Literary Achivement Award
- Nonfiction
- Reference
- Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs
- Sephardic Studies
- Special Recognition
- Translation of a Jewish Classic
- Translation of English Poetry
- Yiddish Language and Culture
- Yiddish Literature
- Yiddish Poetry
Fiction
JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
The Fiction Award is endowed by Jewish Book Council Board member and past president Blu Greenberg and her husband, Rabbi “Yitz” Greenberg, in loving memory of their son, JJ Greenberg. This is an eternal tribute to JJ’s love of reading, especially Jewish fiction.
About this award
A novel or short-story collection of exemplary literary merit, with Jewish content.
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| 2023 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2022 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2021 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2020 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2019 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2018 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2017 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2016 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2015 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2014 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2013 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2012 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2011 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2010 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2009 | JJ Greenberg Memorial Award |
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| 2006 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2005 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2004 | Jewish Book Council Award | Marjorie SandorPortrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime
Sarabande Books
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| 2002-2003 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2001 | Jewish Book Council Award |
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| 2000 | Jewish Book Council Award | Philip RothThe Human Stain
Houghtin Mifflin
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| 1999 | Jewish Book Council Award | Steve SternThe Wedding Jester
Graywolf Press
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| 1998 | Jewish Book Council Award | Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green, trans.The Iron Tracks
Schocken
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| 1997 | Jewish Book Council Award | Saul BellowThe Actual
Viking
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| 1996 | Jewish Book Council Award | Evan ZimrothGangsters
Crown Publishers
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| 1995 | Jewish Book Council Award | Rebecca GoldsteinMazel
Viking
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| 1994 | The Arete Foundation Award | Alan IslerThe Prince of West End Avenue
Bridge Works Publishing Co.
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| 1993 | The Arete Foundation Award | A.B. YehoshuaMr. Mani
Doubleday
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| 1992 | The Arete Foundation Award | Nathan Shaham; Dalya Bilu, trans.The Rosendorf Quartet |
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| 1991 | William and Janice Epstein Award | Chaim PotokThe Gift of Asher Lev
Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1990 | William and Janice Epstein Award | A.B. Yehoshua; Hillel Halkin, trans.Five Seasons
Doubleday
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| 1989 | William and Janice Epstein Award | Aharon AppelfeldThe Immortal Bartfuss
Weidenfeld
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| 1988 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Philip RothThe Counterlife
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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| 1986 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Arnost Lustig; Vera Kalina-Levine, trans.The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S.
Arbor House
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| 1985 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Frederick BuschInvisible Mending
David R. Godine
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| 1984 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Arthur A. CohenAn Admirable Woman
David Godine
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| 1983 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Robert GreenfieldTemple
Summit Books
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| 1982 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Mark HelprinEllis Island and Other Stories
Delacorte Press/ Dell
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| 1981 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Johanna KaplanO, My America
Harper & Row
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| 1980 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Daniel FuchsApathetic Bookie Joint
Methuen
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| 1979 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Gloria GoldreichLeah's Journey
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Berkeley Publishing
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| 1978 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Chaim GradeThe Yeshiva, Vol. I and II
Bobbs-Merrill/ Menorah Publishing
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| 1977 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Cynthia OzickBloodshed and Three Novellas
Alfred A. Knopf/Dutton
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| 1976 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Johanna KaplanOther People's Lives
Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1975 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Jean KarsavinaWhite Eagle, Dark Skies
Charles Scribner's Sons
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| 1974 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Francine ProseJudah the Pious
Atheneum
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| 1973 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Robert KotlowitzSomewhere Else
Charterhouse
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| 1972 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Cynthia OzickThe Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1970 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Leo LitwakWaiting for the News
Doubleday
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| 1969 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Charles AngoffMemory of Autumn
Thomas Yoseloff
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| 1967 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Chaim GradeThe Well
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1966 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Meyer LevinThe Stronghold
Simon & Schuster
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| 1965 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Elie WieselThe Town Beyond the Wall
Atheneum/Schocken
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| 1964 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Joanne GereenbergThe King's Persons
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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| 1963 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Issac-Bashevis SingerThe Slave
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy/Fawcett
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| 1962 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Samuel YellenWedding Band
Atheneum
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| 1961 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Edward L. WallantThe Human Season
Harcourt Brace
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| 1960 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Philip RothGoodbye Columbus
Houghtin Mifflin
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| 1959 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Leon UrisExodus
Doubleday/Bantam
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| 1958 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Bernard MalamudThe Assistant
Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
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| 1957 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Lion FeuchtwangerRaquel: The Jewess of Toledo
Messner
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| 1955 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Louis ZaraBlessed is the Land
Crown Publishers
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| 1954 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Charles AngoffIn the Morning Light
Beechurst Press
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| 1953 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Michael BlanktThe Juggler
Little, Brown
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| 1952 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Zelda PopkinQuiet Street
J.B. Lippincott
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| 1951 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Soma MorgensteinThe Testament of the Lost Son
Jewish Publication Society
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| 1950 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | John HerseyThe Wall
Alfred A. Knopf
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| 1949 | Harry and Ethel Daroff Award | Howard FastMy Glorious Brothers
Little, Brown
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