Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and the win­ners of the 72nd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards as we cel­e­brate their accomplishments!

The cel­e­bra­tion will fea­ture remarks from a selec­tion of the 72nd win­ners in addi­tion to spe­cial guests of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Each tick­et sup­ports Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s efforts to enrich, edu­cate, and strength­en the com­mu­ni­ty through literature. 

The din­ner will be host­ed by Abi­gail Pogre­bin, the author of Stars of David: Promi­nent Jews Talk About Being Jew­ish which went into ten print­ings, and My Jew­ish Year: 18 Hol­i­days, One Won­der­ing Jew, which was a final­ist for a 2017 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. A for­mer Emmy-nom­i­nat­ed pro­duc­er for ​“60 Min­utes,” she has writ­ten for The Atlantic, Newsweek, Tablet and the For­ward and she was a cohost — with Ortho­dox Rab­bi Dov Linz­er — for the Tablet Mag­a­zine pod­cast, ​“Par­sha in Progress.” Abby mod­er­ates pub­lic con­ver­sa­tions for the Stre­ick­er Cen­ter, Shalom Hart­man Insti­tute, and the JCC in Man­hat­tan. She is a past pres­i­dent of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York.

Pur­chase an Ad for the 72nd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards Din­ner Dig­i­tal Pro­gram Book

If you would like to pur­chase an ad for the 72nd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards din­ner, please email Evie at evie@​jewishbooks.​org. Specs for the ads are: 6″ w x 8“h, 300 DPI, include 1/4″ bleed, full col­or, and are $200.00 each.

Each con­trib­u­tor lev­el includes one tick­et to attend the cer­e­mo­ny and all list­ed ben­e­fits. If you pur­chase mul­ti­ple tick­ets, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil will be in touch with you direct­ly for the names and con­tact infor­ma­tion of your guests.

• Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Jew­ish Book of the Year Award: Michael W. Twit­ty, Kosher­Soul: The Faith and Food Jour­ney of an African Amer­i­can Jew by Michael W. Twit­ty (HarperCollins/​Amistad Books)
• Men­tor­ship Award In Hon­or of Car­olyn Star­man Hes­sel: Ellen Frankel
• Amer­i­can Jew­ish Stud­ies Cel­e­brate 350 Award: Nomi M. Stolzen­berg and David N. Myers, Amer­i­can Shtetl: The Mak­ing of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Vil­lage in Upstate New York (Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Auto­bi­og­ra­phy & Mem­oir The Krauss Fam­i­ly Award In Mem­o­ry of Simon & Shu­lamith (Sofi) Gold­berg: Stephen Mills, Cho­sen: A Mem­oir of Stolen Boy­hood (Met­ro­pol­i­tan Books)
• Biog­ra­phy In Mem­o­ry of Sara Beren­son Stone: Jonathan Freed­land. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Harper­Collins Publishers)
• Book Club Award The Miller Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Helen Dunn Wein­stein and June Keit Miller: Miri­am Ruth Black, Shay­na (Kirk House)
• Children’s Pic­ture Book Tra­cy and Lar­ry Brown Fam­i­ly Award: Shoshana Nam­bi, Moran Yogev, illus. The Very Best Sukkah: A Sto­ry from Ugan­da (Kalan­iot Books)
• Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life & Prac­tice Myra H. Kraft Memo­r­i­al Award:  Danya Rut­ten­berg, On Repen­tance and Repair: Mak­ing Amends in an Unapolo­getic World (Bea­con Press)
• Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize: Ash­ley Gold­berg, Abom­i­na­tion (Pen­guin Ran­dom House Australia)
• Edu­ca­tion & Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty In Mem­o­ry of Dorothy Krip­ke: Sivan Zakai, My Sec­ond-Favorite Coun­try: How Amer­i­can Jew­ish Chil­dren Think About Israel (NYU Press)
• Fic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award: Dani Shapiro, Sig­nal Fires (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Food Writ­ing & Cook­books Jane and Stu­art Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award: Benedet­ta Jas­mine Guet­ta, Cook­ing alla Giu­dia (Arti­san Books)
• Hebrew Fic­tion in Trans­la­tion Jane Weitz­man Award Maayan Eitan, Love by (Pen­guin Press)
• His­to­ry Ger­rard and Ella Berman Memo­r­i­al Award: Ken­neth B. Moss, An Uncho­sen Peo­ple: Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Reck­on­ing in Inter­war Poland (Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Holo­caust In Mem­o­ry of Ernest W. Michel: Jonathan Freed­land. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Harper­Collins Publishers)
• Holo­caust Mem­oir Award: Michael Frank, One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World (Avid Read­er Press)
• Mid­dle Grade Lit­er­a­ture: Sta­cy Nock­owitz, The Prince of Steel Pier (Kar-Ben Pub­lish­ing)
• Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought & Expe­ri­ence Dorot Foun­da­tion Award In Mem­o­ry of Joy Unger­lei­der May­er­son: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Fig­ur­ing Jerusalem: Pol­i­tics and Poet­ics in the Sacred Cen­ter (The Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go Press)
• Poet­ry Berru Award in Mem­o­ry of Ruth and Bernie Wein­flash: Sean Singer, Today in the Taxi (Tupe­lo Press)
• Schol­ar­ship Nahum M. Sar­na Memo­r­i­al Award:Jay Michael­son, The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jew­ish Mes­sian­ism to Eso­teric Myth (Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Sephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award in Mem­o­ry of Becky Levy: Michael Frank, One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World (Avid Read­er Press)
• Visu­al Arts: Liana Finck, Let There Be Light The Real Sto­ry of Her Cre­ation (Ran­dom House)
• Women’s Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award: Eli­she­va Baum­garten, Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages (Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Press)
• Writ­ing Based on Archival Mate­r­i­al The JDC-Her­bert Katz­ki Award: Lau­ra Hob­son Fau­re, A ​“Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan” The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pres­ence in Post-Holo­caust France (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture: Susan Wider, It’s My Whole Life: Char­lotte Salomon: An Artist in Hid­ing Dur­ing World War II (Nor­ton Young Readers)

Inau­gu­rat­ed in 1950, the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards is the longest-run­n­ing North Amer­i­can awards pro­gram of its kind and is rec­og­nized as the most pres­ti­gious. The Awards are intend­ed to rec­og­nize authors, and encour­age read­ing, of out­stand­ing Eng­lish-lan­guage books of Jew­ish inter­est. Learn more about the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards here.

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is a non­prof­it ded­i­cat­ed to pro­mot­ing the read­ing, writ­ing, and pub­lish­ing of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture. Engag­ing and edu­cat­ing authors and read­ers across the globe, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s goal is to enrich the con­nec­tion to Jew­ish life and iden­ti­ty through lit­er­a­ture and to cre­ate con­ver­sa­tions with gen­er­a­tions of read­ers across our Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties. Read more about Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and its pro­grams and resources here.