National Jewish Book Awards

2013

Category	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
American Jewish Studies	Celebrate 350 Award	Richard Breitman & Allan J. Lichtman FDR and the Jews Belknap Press of Harvard University Press	M. M. Silver Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography Syracuse University Press Andrea Most Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America NYU Press
Anthologies and Collections	Jewish Book Council Award	Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh, eds. 1929: Mapping the Jewish World NYU Press	Rabbi Menachem Genack, ed. Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership Sterling Ethos Alvin Rosenfeld Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives Indiana University Press Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds. Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives Indiana University Press
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir	The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg	Phyllis Chesler An American Bride In Kabul: A Memoir Palgrave Macmillan	Jeremy Dauber The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem Schocken Books Jonathan Kirsch The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris Liveright Seth Lipsky The Rise of Abraham Cahan Schocken Books/Nextbook Press
Children's and Young Adult Literature	Jewish Book Council Award	Aline Sax; Caryl Strzelecki, illus.; Laura Watkinson, trans. The War within These Walls Wm. Eerdmans Publishing Co.	Kathy Kacer Shanghai Escape Second Story Press Kathryn Lasky The Extra Candlewick Press
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice	Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award	Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas Kaddish: Women’s Voices Urim Publications	Joan S. Friedman Guidance, Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa Hebrew Union College Press William F.S. Miles Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic Odyssey Markus Wiener Publishers Tim Horel & Lisa Stander Horel Nosh on This: Gluten-Free Baking Classics from a Jewish American Kitchen The Experiment
Debut Fiction	Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize	Kenneth Bonert The Lion Seeker Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	A.J. Sidransky Forgiving Maximo Rothman Berwick Court Publishing J. L. Witterick My Mother’s Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story Putnam Adult
Education and Jewish Identity	In Memory of Dorothy Kripke	Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools Brandeis University Press	Alex Sinclair Loving the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal Zionism Ben Yehuda Press Dr. Ron Wolfson Relational Judaism: Using the Power of Relationships to Transform the Jewish Community Jewish Lights Publishing
Fiction	JJ Greenberg Memorial Award	Amos Oz; Sondra Silverston, trans. Between Friends Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Rebecca Miller Jacob’s Folly: A Novel Farrar, Straus and Giroux Helene Wecker The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel Harper Ruchama King Feuerman In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist New York Review of Books
History	Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award	Ari Shavit Winner of the 2014 Natan Book Award My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Spiegel & Grau	Jo Roberts Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe Dundum Reiner Stach; Shelley Frisch, trans. Kafka: The Years of Insight Princeton University Press
Holocaust	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
Illustrated Children's Book	Louis Posner Memorial Award	Eric A. Kimmel; Mike Wohnoutka, illus. Hanukkah Bear Holiday House	Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Joani Rothenberg, illus. Creation’s First Light IBJ Book Publishing Allegra Magrisso; Beth Shadur, illus. When Sarah Laughed Allegra Magrisso
Jewish Book of the Year	Everett Family Foundation Award	Yossi Klein Halevi Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation HarperCollins
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience	Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider	Jonathan Sacks The Koren Sacks Pesach Machzor The Toby Press/Koren Publisher Jerusalem	Maxim D. Shrayer Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story Syracuse University Press Erica T. Lehrer Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places Indiana University Press Elissa Bemporad Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk Indiana University Press
Poetry	Jewish Book Council Award	Peter Waldor Who Touches Everything Settlement House	Alan Shapiro Night of the Republic Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Geoffrey Hartman The Eighth Day: Poems Old and New Texas Tech University Press
Scholarship	Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award	Moshe Halbertal Maimonides: Life and Thought Princeton University Press	Ephraim Kanarfogel The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz Wayne State University Press
Sephardic Culture	Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy	Maureen Jackson Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song Stanford University Press
Visual Arts	Jewish Book Council Award	Alexander Gorlin Kabbalah in Art and Architecture Pointed Leaf Press	Joseph M. Siry Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture The University of Chicago Press Izzy Pludwinski Mastering Hebrew Calligraphy Koren Publishers Jerusalem Salo Aizenberg; Michael Berenbaum, fwd. Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards Jewish Publication Society
Women's Studies	Barbara Dobkin Award	Melissa R. Klapper Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890 – 1940 NYU Press	Elizabeth Shanks Alexander Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism Cambridge University Press Natalie Naimark-Goldberg Jewish Women in Enlightenment Berlin Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Writing Based on Archival Material	The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award	Elissa Bemporad Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk Indiana University Press	Nina S. Spiegel Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine Wayne State University Press