National Jewish Book Award1999

Given by Jewish Book Council

Other Names: Goldberg Prize for Fiction, Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
44 Works / 45 Items 7,212 Books 259 Reviews 4.1
"The National Jewish Book Awards have been presented annually since 1948 to authors of books of exceptional merit in a variety of Judaic subjects. The awards are designed to heighten awareness of show more outstanding books of Jewish interest published in the last year and • to encourage the reading of worthwhile books • to recognize authors of outstanding Jewish literature • to stimulate others to further literary creativity • to acknowledge original contributions to scholarship Th ese awards acknowledge the seminal importance of a particular work. In addition, there is a monetary award for each winning author, a public presentation to recognize the superior eff orts made by the author and publisher in preparing the winning piece of literature, and publicity for the event and the individual awardees." http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-award.html show less
Stages:
All, Winner (706), Finalist (784), Nominee (1), No Stage (14)
Categories:
All, American Jewish History (1), Amer­i­can Jew­ish Studies (51), Anthologies (1), Anthologies and Collections (37), Autobiography and Memoir (19), Autobiography/Memoir (24), Biography (20), Biography and Autobiography (2), Biography, Autobiography, Memoir (38), Book Club (6), Book Club Award (24), Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies (2), Children's Literature (72), Children's Picture Book (38), Children's and Young Adults' Literature (10), Children’s Literature & Jewish Family Literature (1), Children’s and Young Adult Literature (23), Contemporary Jewish Life (7), Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice (59), Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience (1), Debut Fiction (22), Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize (5), Eastern European Studies (13), Education (3), Education and Jewish Identity (34), English Poetry (8), Everett Family Foundation (3), Everett Family Foundation Award (1), Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year (9), Fiction (124), Fiction JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award (1), Fiction, Book Club Award (2), Fiction, JJ Greenberg Memorial Award (4), Fic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award (6), First Time Author (1), Food Writing & Cookbooks (10), General Non Fiction (1), Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers (14), Hebrew Fiction in Translation (5), History (71), Holocaust (94), Holocaust Memoir & Mimi S. Frank Award (1), Holocaust Memoir Award (5), Holocaust Studies - in Memory of Ernest W. Michel (1), Holocaust, Biography (1), Holo­caust (2), Illustrated Children's Book (29), Israel (31), Jewish Book of the Year (5), Jewish Education (7), Jewish Family Literature (10), Jewish Folklore and Anthropology (2), Jewish History (30), Jewish Thought (42), Jewish-Christian Relations (12), Jew­ish Book of the Year Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Award (2), Middle Grade Literature (14), Modern Jewish Thought and Experience (54), Non-Fiction (11), Outstanding Debut Fiction (13), Poetry (38), Reference (13), Scholarship (75), Sephardic - Ashkenazic Culture (4), Sephardic Culture (35), Sephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award (4), Sephardic Studies (16), Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs (4), Sephardic-Ashkenazic Culture (1), Special Recognition (1), The JDC-Her­bert Katz­ki Award (1), Thought (2), Translation of English Poetry (1), Translation of a Jewish Classic (2), Visual Arts (48), Women Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award (1), Women's Studies (57), Writing Based on Archival Material (24), Yiddish Language and Culture (2), Yiddish Literature (1), Yiddish Poetry (2), Yiddish Studies (2), Young Adult (6), Young Adult Literature (20), No Category (6)
Years:
All, 2023 (60), 2022 (62), 2021 (54), 2020 (60), 2019 (64), 2018 (50), 2017 (52), 2016 (41), 2015 (56), 2014 (33), 2013 (48), 2012 (48), 2011 (52), 2010 (50), 2009 (53), 2008 (46), 2007 (48), 2006 (50), 2005 (59), 2004 (36), 2003 (17), 2002 (54), 2001 (1), 2000 (49), 1999 (45), 1998 (28), 1997 (14), 1996 (12), 1995 (12), 1994 (13), 1993 (13), 1992 (11), 1991 (11), 1990 (11), 1989 (11), 1988 (10), 1987 (8), 1986 (9), 1985 (10), 1984 (9), 1983 (9), 1982 (7), 1981 (7), 1980 (8), 1979 (4), 1978 (6), 1977 (7), 1976 (7), 1975 (5), 1974 (6), 1973 (5), 1972 (4), 1971 (3), 1970 (4), 1969 (5), 1968 (3), 1967 (3), 1966 (5), 1965 (3), 1964 (3), 1963 (3), 1962 (3), 1961 (2), 1960 (3), 1959 (3), 1958 (2), 1957 (1), 1955 (1), 1954 (2), 1953 (2), 1952 (2), 1951 (2), 1950 (2), 1949 (2)
Announced:
January 24: Winner2023 Recent
January 24: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 15

WorkCategoryYear
King David's harp : autobiographical essays by Jewish Latin American writers by Stephen A. SadowAutobiography/Memoir1999
With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish by Sandy AsherChildren's Literature1999
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms TabackChildren's Picture Book1999
The Wedding Jester by Steve SternFiction1999
Reading the Holocaust by Inga ClendinnenHolocaust1999
Multiple Identities of the Middle East by Bernard LewisIsrael1999
Transmission and Transformation: A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education by Carol K. IngallJewish Education1999
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 [exhibition] by Emily D. BilskiJewish History1999
Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and Commentary (Sources and Studies in Kabbalah, Hasidism, and Jewish Thought, V. 4) by Norman LammJewish Thought1999
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity by Paula FredriksenJewish-Christian Relations1999
Yosl Rakover Talks to God by Zvi KolitzNon-Fiction1999
The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Folklore Studies in Translation) by Eli YassifReference1999
Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Stu by Jeremy CohenScholarship1999
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews by David M. GitlitzSephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs1999
Heretics or Daughters of Israel?: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile by Renee Levine MelammedSephardic Studies1999

Finalist 30

WorkCategoryYear
The Stone Pillow : The Life and Times of Jona Lerman by Arlene KurtisAutobiography/Memoir1999
Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town by David W. WeissAutobiography/Memoir1999
Journeys with Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet by Barbara Diamond GoldinChildren's Literature1999
When the Beginning Began: Stories about God, the Creatures, and Us by Julius LesterChildren's Literature1999
Streets of Gold by Rosemary WellsChildren's Picture Book1999
Exodus by Brian WildsmithChildren's Picture Book1999
Becoming a Jewish Parent: How to Explore Spirituality and Tradition with Your Children by Daniel GordisEducation1999
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories by Nathan EnglanderFiction1999
The County of Birches: Stories by Judith KalmanFiction1999
Second Hand Smoke: A Novel by Thane RosenbaumFiction1999
The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar (Jewish Latin America Series) by Moacyr ScliarFiction1999
The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) by Lois C. DubinHistory1999
The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau by Timothy W. RybackHistory1999
Theatrical performance during the Holocaust : texts, documents, memoirs by Rebecca RovitHolocaust1999
Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust Through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts by Robert Moses ShapiroHolocaust1999
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 by Benny MorrisIsrael1999
Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003 by Itamar RabinovichIsrael1999
Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Louis JacobsJewish Thought1999
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966 by Marc B. ShapiroJewish Thought1999
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue (Baltic Studies in the History of Judaism) by Steven FineJewish-Christian Relations1999
A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices Within Judaism by David HartmanNon-Fiction1999
The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation by Steven SpielbergNon-Fiction1999
The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 3: The Early Roman Period by William HorburyReference1999
Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (The Jewish Genealogy Series) by Miriam WeinerReference1999
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties by Shaye J. D. CohenScholarship1999
Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture by Jeffrey L. RubensteinScholarship1999
Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews by Miri RubinScholarship1999
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews by David M. GitlitzSephardic Studies1999
No Room of Their Own by Yael S. FeldmanWomen's Studies1999
Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law by Rahel WasserfallWomen's Studies1999

Descriptions

"The National Jewish Book Awards have been presented annually since 1948 to authors of books of exceptional merit in a variety of Judaic subjects. The awards are designed to heighten awareness of outstanding books of Jewish interest published in the last year and • to encourage the reading of worthwhile books • to recognize authors of outstanding Jewish literature • to stimulate others to further literary creativity • to acknowledge original contributions to scholarship Th ese awards acknowledge the seminal importance of a particular work. In addition, there is a monetary award for each winning author, a public presentation to recognize the superior eff orts made by the author and publisher in preparing the winning piece of literature, and publicity for the event and the individual awardees." http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-award.html (English, Member-written)
Established in 1999 and supported through a generous grant from the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers is among the very first of its kind to highlight new works by contemporary writers exploring Jewish themes. The prize spotlights promising new talent, and is awarded to an American fiction writer for a first or second full-length work that was published in the previous calendar year. http://www.jewishculture.org/?pid=literature (English, Member-written)

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