National Jewish Book Award2017

Given by Jewish Book Council

Other Names: Goldberg Prize for Fiction, Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
51 Works / 52 Items 11,571 Books 460 Reviews 4.0
"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 16

WorkCategoryYear
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (North American Religions) by Shari RabinAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2017
The Choice by Edith EgerBiography, Autobiography, Memoir2017
The Weight of Ink by Rachel KadishBook Club Award2017
The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew by Richard MichelsonChildren's Literature2017
The Torah of Music by Joey WeisenbergContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2017
Barren Island by Carol ZorefDebut Fiction2017
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age by Steven WeitzmanEducation and Jewish Identity2017
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David GrossmanFiction2017
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair MintzkerHistory2017
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. FishmanHolocaust2017
Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine KlagsbrunJewish Book of the Year2017
Waiting for the Light (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia OstrikerPoetry2017
Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) by Dov WeissScholarship2017
Across legal lines : jews and muslims in modern morocco by Jessica M. MarglinSephardic Culture2017
Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art by Irvin UngarVisual Arts2017
Refugee by Alan GratzYoung Adult Literature2017

Finalist 36

WorkCategoryYear
Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America by Samuel C. HeilmanAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2017
Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History) by Laura B. RosenzweigAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2017
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by David G. DalinBiography, Autobiography, Memoir2017
Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew (Jewish Lives) by Avner HoltzmanBiography, Autobiography, Memoir2017
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel by Shimon PeresBiography, Autobiography, Memoir2017
On the Sickle's Edge by Neville D FrankelBook Club Award2017
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia HunterBook Club Award2017
City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement by Sara Yael HirschhornCelebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies2017
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth BeharChildren's Literature2017
The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty by Estelle FrankelContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2017
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail PogrebinContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2017
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory by Elizabeth RosnerContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2017
What To Do About The Solomons by Bethany BallDebut Fiction2017
Viva, Rose! by Susan KrawitzDebut Fiction2017
Learning to Read Talmud: What It Looks Like and How It Happens by Jane L. KanarekEducation and Jewish Identity2017
4 3 2 1 by Paul AusterFiction2017
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-GoshenFiction2017
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy DauberHistory2017
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. FishmanHistory2017
The Story of Hebrew by Lewis GlinertHistory2017
Theresienstadt 1941 - 1945. Das Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft by H. G. AdlerHolocaust2017
Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne NelsonHolocaust2017
Saving one's own : Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust by Mordecai PaldielHolocaust2017
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by Chad Alan GoldbergModern Jewish Thought and Experience2017
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging by Naomi LeiteModern Jewish Thought and Experience2017
Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Red Ochre) by Allison Pitinii DavisPoetry2017
Maimonides and the merchants : Jewish law and society in the medieval Islamic world by Mark R. CohenScholarship2017
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Joshua SchreierSephardic Culture2017
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist by Jens HoffmannVisual Arts2017
Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design by Esther da Costa MeyerVisual Arts2017
The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) by Bracha YanivVisual Arts2017
Before All Memory Is Lost: Women's Voices from the Holocaust (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs) by Myrna GoldenbergWomen's Studies2017
Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination (Jewish Cultural Studies) by Jane L. KanarekWomen's Studies2017
If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir by Ilana KurshanWomen's Studies2017
Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) by Gilad Ben-NunWriting Based on Archival Material2017
Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo2017

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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