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
1987
| Category | Endowment | Winner | Finalists |
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| Children's Literature | Shapolsky's Great Judaica Books Award | Eileen Bluestone ShermanMonday in Odessa
Jewish Publication Society
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| Children's Picture Book | Myra C. Livingston; Lloyd Bloom, illus.Poems for Jewish Holidays
Holiday House
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| Holocaust | Leon Jolson Award | Robert J. LiftonNazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Basic Books
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| Israel | Morris J. Kaplun Award | Samuel HeilmanA Walker in Jerusalem
Summit Books
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| Jewish History | Bernard H. Marks Award | David BialePower and Powerless in Jewish History
Schocken
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| Jewish Thought | William (Zev) Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld | Arnold M. EisenGalut: Modern Jewish Reflections on Homelessness and Homecoming
Indiana University Press
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| Scholarship | Julius Kushner Award | Reuven HammerSifre: A Tannaitic Commentary on the Book of Deutoronomy
Yale University Press
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| Visual Arts | Leon L. Gildesgame Award | Joy Ungerleider-MayersonJewish Folk Art: From Biblical Days to Modern Times
Summit Books
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