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
Jewish History
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2005 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Mark MazowerSalonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950
Knopf
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2004 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Steve OneyAnd the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Pantheon Books
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2002-2003 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award |
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2002 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | James CarrollConstantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
Houghtin Mifflin
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2000 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | SegevOne Palestine, Complete
Metropolitan Books
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1999 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Emily D. Bilski, ed.Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture
University of California Press/ The Jewish Museum
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1998 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Miriam BodianHebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
Indiana University Press
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1997 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Michael MeyerGerman-Jewish History in Moderm Times, Vol. 2: Emancipation and Acculturation: 1780-1871
Columbia University Press
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1996 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Moshe RosmanFounder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov
University of California Press
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1995 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Jenna Weissman JoselitThe Wonders of America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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1994 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Leonard DinnersteinAnti-Semitism in America
Oxford University Press
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1993 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Naomi W. CohenJews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality
Oxford University Press
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1992 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Marion A. KaplanThe Making of the Jewish Middle Class. Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany
Oxford University Press
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1991 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Elisheva CarlebachThe Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbataian Controversies
Columbia University Press
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1990 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Eli LederhendlerThe Road to Modern Jewish Politics
Oxford University Press
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1989 | Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award | Michael A. MeyerResponse to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism
Oxford University Press
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1988 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Robert ChazanEuropean Jewry and the First Crusade
University of California Press
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1987 | Bernard H. Marks Award | David BialePower and Powerless in Jewish History
Schocken
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1986 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Robert LiberlesReligious Conflict in Social Context. The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism in Frankfurt am Main, 1838-1877
Leo Baeck Institute/Greenwood Press
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1985 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Naomi W. CohenEncounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914
Jewish Publication Society
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1984 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Michael StanislwaskiTsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia 1825-1855
Jewish Publication Society
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1983 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Yosef Hayim YerushalmiZakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory
University of Washington Press
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1982 | Bernard H. Marks Award | David RudermanThe World of a Renaissance Jew
Hebrew Union College
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1981 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Mark R. CohenJewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126
Princeton University Press
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1980 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Todd M. EndelmanThe Jews of Georgian England, 1774-1830
Jewish Publication Society
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1978 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Celia S. HellerOn the Edge of Destruction
Columbia University Press
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1977 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Irving HoweWorld Of Our Fathers
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Bantam
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1976 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Raphael Patai and Jennifer Patai WingThe Myth of the Jewish Race
Charles Scribner's Sons
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1974 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Bernard D. WeinrybThe Jews of Poland. A Social and Economic History, 1100 to 1800
Jewish Publication Society
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1973 | Bernard H. Marks Award | Arthur J. ZuckermanA Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900
Columbia University Press
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1963 | Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Non-Fiction Award | Moses RischinThe Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914
Harvard University Press
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