National Jewish Book Award2022

Given by Jewish Book Council

Other Names: Goldberg Prize for Fiction, Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
62 Works 7,809 Books 377 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 22

WorkCategoryYear
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York by Nomi M. StolzenbergAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2022
Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood by Stephen MillsAutobiography and Memoir2022
Shayna, a Novel by Miriam Ruth BlackBook Club Award2022
The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda by Shoshana NambiChildren's Picture Book2022
On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya RuttenbergContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2022
Abomination by Ashley GoldbergDebut Fiction2022
My Second-Favorite Country: How American Jewish Children Think About Israel by ZakaiEducation and Jewish Identity2022
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. TwittyEverett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year2022
Signal Fires by Dani ShapiroFiction2022
Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy by Benedetta Jasmine GuettaFood Writing & Cookbooks2022
Love by Maayan EitanHebrew Fiction in Translation2022
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland by Kenneth B. MossHistory2022
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael FrankHolocaust Memoir & Mimi S. Frank Award2022
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan FreedlandHolocaust, Biography2022
The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy NockowitzMiddle Grade Literature2022
Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center by Sidra DeKoven EzrahiModern Jewish Thought and Experience2022
Today in the Taxi by Sean SingerPoetry2022
The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth by Jay MichaelsonScholarship2022
Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation by Liana FinckVisual Arts2022
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Elisheva BaumgartenWomen's Studies2022
A "Jewish Marshall Plan": The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France by Laura Hobson FaureWriting Based on Archival Material2022
It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II by Susan WiderYoung Adult Literature2022

Finalist 40

WorkCategoryYear
The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh LambertAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2022
Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army by Adam D. MendelsohnAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2022
The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator by Rich CohenAutobiography and Memoir2022
Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia by Yelena LemberskyAutobiography and Memoir2022
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn SchulzAutobiography and Memoir2022
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. MullerBiography2022
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Dr. Albert BourlaBook Club Award2022
Cover Me With My Izar by Nora Houri‐HaimBook Club Award2022
The Incandescent Threads by Richard ZimlerBook Club Award2022
Tía Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey by Ruth BeharChildren's Picture Book2022
Alone Together on Dan Street by Erica LyonsChildren's Picture Book2022
The Girl Who Counted Numbers: A Novel (New Jewish Fiction) by Roslyn BernsteinDebut Fiction2022
#antisemitism: Coming of Age during the Resurgence of Hate by Samantha A. Vinokor-MeinrathEducation and Jewish Identity2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinFiction, Book Club Award2022
Weltschatten by Nir BaramHebrew Fiction in Translation2022
Victorious by Yishai SaridHebrew Fiction in Translation2022
In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael BrennerHistory2022
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Matthias B. LehmannHistory2022
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah CadburyHolocaust2022
Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Story for All Generations by Lily EbertHolocaust Memoir Award2022
The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir by George Lucius SaltonHolocaust Memoir Award2022
Detour Ahead by Pamela EhrenbergMiddle Grade Literature2022
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan HoodMiddle Grade Literature2022
Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II by Karma Ben-JohananModern Jewish Thought and Experience2022
How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha SenderovichModern Jewish Thought and Experience2022
Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 by Irena KlepfiszPoetry2022
Refusenik by Lynn MelnickPoetry2022
Aunt Bird by Yerra SugarmanPoetry2022
Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) by Daniel J. LaskerScholarship2022
Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. StrassfeldScholarship2022
Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage by Hélène Jawhara PiñerSephardic Culture2022
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire by Joseph SassoonSephardic Culture2022
Malkah’s Notebook: A Journey into the Mystical Aleph-Bet by Mira Z. Amiras PhDVisual Arts2022
Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara BloeminkVisual Arts2022
The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist by Sarah ImhoffWomen's Studies2022
Beyond Zion: the Jewish Territorialist Movement by Laura AlmagorWriting Based on Archival Material2022
Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France by Nick UnderwoodWriting Based on Archival Material2022
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha LambYoung Adult Literature2022
Salt & honey : Jewish teens on feminism, creativity, & tradition by Eliz­a­beth Man­delYoung Adult Literature2022
The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R. M. RomeroYoung Adult Literature2022

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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