Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and the win­ners of the 74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards as we cel­e­brate their accomplishments! 

The cel­e­bra­tion will fea­ture remarks from a selec­tion of the 74th 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. 

We can’t wait to see you there! This cel­e­bra­tion will include a din­ner with an awards pre­sen­ta­tion and dessert reception.

For ques­tions, or to pay by check please email us at NJBA@​jewishbooks.​org

The win­ners of the 74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards will be hon­ored on Wednes­day, March 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM ET at an in-per­­son cer­e­mo­ny in Man­hat­tan. The host of the 74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards will be author Dani Shapiro, the author of eleven books, includ­ing two Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners, Sig­nal Fires and Inher­i­tance. 

For lead­er­ship and cor­po­rate spon­sor­ship infor­ma­tion for the 73rd Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award cel­e­bra­tion event, please con­tact evie@​jewishbooks.​org.

74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners:

• Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Jew­ish Book of the Year Award: 10/7: 100 Human Sto­ries by Lee Yaron (St. Mar­t­in’s Pub­lish­ing Group)
• Life­time Achieve­ment Award The Tri­umph of Life: A Nar­ra­tive The­ol­o­gy of Judaism by Rab­bi Irv­ing Green­berg (Uni­ver­si­ty of Nebras­ka Press)
• Men­tor­ship Award In Hon­or of Car­olyn Star­man Hes­sel: Aaron Lansky
• Amer­i­can Jew­ish Stud­ies Cel­e­brate 350 Award: A Cold War Exo­dus: How Amer­i­can Activists Mobi­lized to Free Sovi­et Jews by Shaul Kel­ner (NYU Press)
• Auto­bi­og­ra­phy & Mem­oir The Krauss Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Simon & Shu­lamith (Sofi) Gold­berg: The Gates of Gaza: A Sto­ry of Betray­al, Sur­vival, and Hope in Israel’s Bor­der­lands by Amir Tibon (Lit­tle, Brown & Company)
• Biog­ra­phy Award in Mem­o­ry of Sara Beren­son Stone: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Christophe Lebold (ECW Press)
• Book Club The Miller Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Helen Dunn Wein­stein and June Keit Miller: The Last Dekrepitzer Howard Langer (Cresheim Press)
• Children’s Pic­ture Book Tra­cy and Lar­ry Brown Fam­i­ly Award: Shar­ing Shalom by Danielle Sharkan, Seli­na Alko, trans. (Hol­i­day House)
• Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life & Prac­tice Myra H. Kraft Memo­r­i­al Award: The Mad­woman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Reread­ing the Women of the Tal­mud by Gila Fine (Koren Pub­lish­ers Jerusalem)
• Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize: The Safe­keep by Yael van der Wouden (Avid Read­er Press / Simon & Schuster)
• Edu­ca­tion & Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Award in Mem­o­ry of Dorothy Krip­ke: Uncom­fort­able Con­ver­sa­tions with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tish­by (Simon & Schus­ter / Simon Element)
• Fic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award: Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed by Ayelet Tsabari (Ran­dom House)
• Food Writ­ing & Cook­books Jane and Stu­art Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award: For­bid­den: A 3,000-Year His­to­ry of Jews and the Pig by Jor­dan D. Rosen­blum (NYU Press)
• Hebrew Fic­tion in Trans­la­tion Jane Weitz­man Award: The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad; Jes­si­ca Cohen, trans. (New Ves­sel Press)
• His­to­ry Ger­rard and Ella Berman Memo­r­i­al Award: Read­ing Her­zl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Ene­my by Jonathan Marc Gri­betz (Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Holo­caust Award in Mem­o­ry of Ernest W. Michel: Occu­pied Words: What the Holo­caust Did to Yid­dish by Han­nah Pollin-Galay (Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Press)
• Holo­caust Mem­oir Award in Mem­o­ry of Dr. Charles and Ethel Weitz­man: War­saw Tes­ta­ment by Rokhl Auer­bach; Samuel Kas­sow, trans. (White Goat Press)
• Mid­dle Grade Lit­er­a­ture Award: Finn and Ezra’s Bar Mitz­vah Time Loop by Joshua S. Levy (Harper­Collins)
• Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought & Expe­ri­ence Dorot Foun­da­tion Award in Mem­o­ry of Joy Unger­lei­der: Tablets Shat­tered: The End of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cen­tu­ry and the Future of Jew­ish Life by Joshua Leifer (Pen­guin Ran­dom House — Dutton)
• Poet­ry Berru Award in Mem­o­ry of Ruth and Bernie Wein­flash: The Sto­ry of Your Obsti­nate Sur­vival by Daniel Kha­lastchi (Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin Press)
• Schol­ar­ship Nahum M. Sar­na Memo­r­i­al Award: Baby­lon­ian Jews and Sasan­ian Impe­ri­al­ism in Late Antiq­ui­ty by Sim­cha Gross (Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Sephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award in Mem­o­ry of Becky Levy: Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Com­mu­ni­ty by Avi­ad Moreno (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Visu­al Arts 101 Trea­sures from the Nation­al Library of Israel by Raquel Uke­les, Hezi Ami­ur, Yoel Finkel­man, Ste­fan Litt, and Samuel Thrope (Scala Arts & Her­itage Publishers)
• Women’s Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award: Holy Rebel­lion: Reli­gious Fem­i­nism and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Judaism and Wom­en’s Rights in Israel by Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Wal­doks (Bran­deis Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Writ­ing Based on Archival Mate­r­i­al The JDC-Her­bert Katz­ki Award: The Busi­ness of Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish and Greek Mer­chants of Saloni­ca from Ottoman to Greek Rule by Paris Papami­chos Chron­akis (Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Press)
• Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture Award: Night Owls by A. R. Vish­ny (Harper­Collins)