National Jewish Book Awards

Holocaust

Year	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
2023	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	Jeremy Eichler Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance Knopf	Wolf Gruner Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany Yale University Press Ari Joskowicz Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust Princeton University Press
2022	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	Jonathan Freedland The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World HarperCollins Publishers	Deborah Cadbury The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler PublicAffairs
2021	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	Wendy Lower The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed Mariner Books	Rebecca Frankel Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love St. Martin’s Press Pinchas Eliyahu Blitt A Promise of Sweet Tea: Memoirs of a Survivor The Azrieli Foundation Abraham Sutzkever, Justin D. Cammy (Editor, Translator) From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony McGill-Queen’s University Press
2020	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	Faris Cassell The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help Regnery Publishing
2019	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	Michael Dobbs The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between Alfred A. Knopf	Dan Porat Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Mark L. Smith The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust Wayne State University Press
2018	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	Omer Bartov Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz Simon & Schuster
2017	In Memory of Ernest W. Michel	David E. Fishman The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis ForeEdge	H.G. Adler; Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss, ed; Belinda Cooper, trans. Theresienstadt 1941 – 1945: The Face of a Coerced Community Cambridge University Press Anne Nelson Suzanne’s Children Simon & Schuster Mordecai Paldiel Saving One’s Own The Jewish Publication Society
2016	Jewish Book Council Award	Michael Bazyler Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World Oxford University Press	Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein The Holocaust in Croatia University of Pittsburgh Press Ivan Jablonka; Jane Kuntz, trans. A History of the Grandparents I Never Had Stanford University Press Michael R. Marrus Lessons of the Holocaust University of Toronto Press Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” Alfred A. Knopf
2015	Jewish Book Council Award	Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, trans. The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Nikolaus Wachsmann KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Farrar, Straus and Giroux Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder, eds. Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust Wayne State University Press
2014	Jewish Book Council Award	James A. Grymes Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust — Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour Harper Perennial	Bettina Stangneth; Ruth Martin, trans. Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer Knopf David Silberklang Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District Yad Vashem Robert Rozett Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War Yad Vashem
2013	Jewish Book Council Award	Randolph L. Braham, ed. The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Northwestern University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	Dori Katz Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood University of Chicago Press Wendy Lower Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012	Jewish Book Council Award	Laura Jockusch Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe Oxford University Press	David Koker; Robert Jan von Pelt, ed.; Horn and Irons, trans. At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943 – 1944 Northwestern University Press Matthew Brzezinski Isaac’s Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland Random House
2011		Gerald Steinacher Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice Oxford University Press	Deborah E. Lipstadt The Eichmann Trial Schocken Books/Nextbook Press David Shneer Through Soviet-Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust Rutgers University Press
2010	Jewish Book Council Award	Christopher R. Browning Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp W.W. Norton & Company	Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans. The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Guy Miren, ed. The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos During the Holocaust Yad Vashem
2009	Jewish Book Council Award	Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 – 1945, Volume 1 Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2008		Father Patrick Desbois The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews Palgrave Macmillan
2007		Gštz Aly Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State Henry Holt and Company
2006	Jewish Book Council Award	Jeffrey Herf The Jewish Enemy Harvard University Press
2005	Jewish Book Council Award	Deborah E. Lipstadt Denial: Holocaust History on Trial Ecco
2004	Jewish Book Council Award	Christopher R. Browning The Origins of the Final Solution: Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 University of Nebraska Press
2002-2003	Nelco Foundation Award	Nechama Tec Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust Yale University Press
2001	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Alexandra Zapruder, ed. Salvaged Pages: Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust, Second Edition Yale University Press
2000	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Evan Bukey Hitler's Austria University of North Carolina Press
1999	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Inga Clendinnen Reading the Holocaust Cambrige University Press
1998	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Marion A. Kaplan Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany Oxford University Press
1997	Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award	Saul Friedlander Nazi Germany and the Jews HarperCollins
1996	Leon Jolson Award	Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present W.W. Norton
1995	Leon Jolson Award	We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine of the Boys of Terezin Jewish Publication Society
1994	Leon Jolson Award	Christopher R. Browning Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland HarperCollins
1993	Leon Jolson Award	James E. Young The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning Yale University Press
1992	Leon Jolson Award	Dalia Ofer Escaping the Holocaust: Illefal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939-1944 Oxford University Press
1991	Leon Jolson Award	Leni Yahlil; Ina Friedman and Haya Galai, trans. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry 1932-1945 Oxford University Press
1990	Leon Jolson Award	Lewin Abraham and Antony Polansky, ed. A Cup of Tears: Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Basil Blackwell
1989	Leon Jolson Award	Christopher Simpson Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1988	Leon Jolson Award	Susan Zuccotti The Italians and the Holocaust Basic Books
1987	Leon Jolson Award	Robert J. Lifton Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide Basic Books
1986	Leon Jolson Award	Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews: Revised and Definitive Edition Holmes and Meier
1985	Leon Jolson Award	David S. Wyman The Abandonment of Jews: America and the Holocaust Pantheon Books
1984	Leon Jolson Award	Margueritte Dorian The Quality of Witness: A Rumanian Diary 1937-44 Jewish Publication Society
1983	Leon Jolson Award	Irving Abella and Harold Troper None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers/ Random
1982	Leon Jolson Award	Michael Marrus and Robert O. Paxton Vichy France and the Jews Basic Books
1981	Leon Jolson Award	Randolph L. Braham The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, 2 Vols. Columbia University Press
1980	Leon Jolson Award	Benjamin B. Ferencz Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation Harvard University Press
1979	Leon Jolson Award	Michael Selzer Deliverance Day: The Last Hours at Dachau J.B. Lippincott
1978	Leon Jolson Award	Terrence Des Pres The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life In the Death Camp Oxford University Press
1977	Leon Jolson Award	Ephraim Oshry Sefer Sheelot u-Teshuvot Mi-Maamakim Part 4
1976	Leon Jolson Award	Leyzer Ran Yerushalayim de Lite: Jerusalem of Lithuania Vilner Album Komitet
1975	Leon Jolson Award	Isaiah Trunk Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation Macmillan
1973	Leon Jolson Award	Aaron Zeitlin Veiterdike Lider fun Hurban un Lider fun Gloiben un Yanish Korshaks Letzte Gange (More Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith and Yanush Korshak's Last Walk) Bergen Belson Memorial Press
1972	Leon Jolson Award	Henry L. Feingold The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945 Rutgers University Press/ Holocaust Library
1971	Leon Jolson Award	Ephraim Oshry Sheelot u-Teshuvot Mi-Maamakim
1970	Leon Jolson Award	Zalman Zylbercweig Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater: Martyrs Volume Hebrew Actors Union of America
1969	Leon Jolson Award	Nora Levin The Holocaust of European Jewry Thomas Y. Cromwell/Shocken
1969	Leon Jolson Award	Jodah Pilch The Jewish Catastrophe in Europe American Association for Jewish Education
1968	Leon Jolson Award	Jacob Robinson And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight: The Eichmann Trial, Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Ahrendt's Narrorative Macmillan
1967	Leon Jolson Award	Abraham Kin, Mordecai Dosover and Isiah Trunk, eds. Algemeyne Entsiklopedye: Yidn VII General Encycolpedia: Jews VII Dobnow Fund and Encyclopedia Committee
1966	Leon Jolson Award	Zosa Szajkowksi Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer 1939-1945

Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards

By Year

By Category

Holo­caust

Jere­my Eichler

Wolf Gruner

Ari Joskow­icz

Jonathan Freed­land

Deb­o­rah Cadbury

Wendy Lower

Rebec­ca Frankel

Pinchas Eliyahu Blitt

Abraham Sutzkever, Justin D. Cammy (Editor, Translator)

Faris Cas­sell

Michael Dobbs

Dan Porat

Mark L. Smith

Omer Bar­tov

David E. Fishman

H.G. Adler; Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss, ed; Belinda Cooper, trans.

Anne Nel­son

Mordecai Paldiel

Michael Bazyler

Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein

Ivan Jablonka; Jane Kuntz, trans.

Michael R. Marrus

Philippe Sands

Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, trans.

Nikolaus Wachsmann

Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder, eds.

James A. Grymes

Bettina Stangneth; Ruth Martin, trans.

David Silberklang

Robert Rozett

Randolph L. Braham, ed.

Dori Katz

Wendy Lower

Laura Jockusch

David Koker; Robert Jan von Pelt, ed.; Horn and Irons, trans.

Matthew Brzezinski

Gerald Steinacher

Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt

David Shneer

Christopher R. Browning

Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans.

Guy Miren, ed.

Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed.

Father Patrick Desbois

Gštz Aly

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

Jeffrey Herf

The Jewish Enemy

Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt

Christopher R. Browning

The Origins of the Final Solution: Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942

Nechama Tec

Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust

Alexandra Zapruder, ed.

Evan Bukey

Hitler's Austria

Inga Clendinnen

Reading the Holocaust

Marion A. Kaplan

Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany

Saul Friedlander

Nazi Germany and the Jews

Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt

Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present

We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine of the Boys of Terezin

Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

James E. Young

The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning

Dalia Ofer

Escaping the Holocaust: Illefal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939-1944

Leni Yahlil; Ina Friedman and Haya Galai, trans.

The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry 1932-1945

Lewin Abraham and Antony Polansky, ed.

A Cup of Tears: Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto

Christopher Simpson

National Jewish Book Awards

Holocaust

Jeremy Eichler

Ari Joskowicz

Jonathan Freedland

Deborah Cadbury

Rebecca Frankel

Faris Cassell

Omer Bartov

Anne Nelson

Deborah E. Lipstadt

Deborah E. Lipstadt