National Jewish Book Award2019

Given by Jewish Book Council

Other Names: Goldberg Prize for Fiction, Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
62 Works / 64 Items 9,331 Books 453 Reviews ½ 3.9
"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 17

WorkCategoryYear
The foundations of American Jewish liberalism by Kenneth D. WaldAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2019
What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) by Naomi B. SokoloffAnthologies and Collections2019
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani ShapiroAutobiography and Memoir2019
Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination by David E. LoweBiography2019
The World That We Knew by Alice HoffmanBook Club2019
Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story by Lesléa NewmanChildren's Literature2019
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari WeissContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2019
Naamah by Sarah BlakeDebut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize2019
Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. LipstadtEducation and Jewish Identity2019
Fly Already: Stories by Etgar KeretFiction JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award2019
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel OkrentHistory2019
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between by Michael DobbsHolo­caust2019
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela S. NadellJew­ish Book of the Year Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Award2019
Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya KaminskyPoetry2019
Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria by Joshua ColeSephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award2019
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition by Naomi SeidmanWomen Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award2019
Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskinYoung Adult Literature2019

Finalist 47

WorkCategoryYear
American JewBu by Emily SigalowAmer­i­can Jew­ish Studies2019
Colonialism and the Jews by Ethan KatzAnthologies and Collections2019
Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader (Suny Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture) by Eric J. SundquistAnthologies and Collections2019
The Zionist ideas: visions for the Jewish homeland―then, now, tomorrow by Gil TroyAnthologies and Collections2019
Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope, My True Story by Irene Hasenberg ButterAutobiography and Memoir2019
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet century by Alexandra PopoffBiography2019
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom SegevBiography2019
The Guest Book by Sarah BlakeBook Club2019
The Third Daughter: A Novel by Talia CarnerBook Club2019
The Last Train to London by Meg Waite ClaytonBook Club2019
The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew GoodmanBook Club2019
Once upon an Apple Cake by Elana RubinsteinChildren's Literature2019
Survivors of the Holocaust by Kath ShackletonChildren's Literature2019
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between by Stephanie ButnickContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2019
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There) by Sarah HurwitzContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2019
Getting Good at Getting Older by Richard SiegelContemporary Jewish Life and Practice2019
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-AknerDebut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize2019
Nick Bones Underground by Phil M CohenDebut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize2019
Willa & Hesper by Amy FeltmanDebut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize2019
Love Is a Rebellious Bird: A Novel by Elayne KlassonDebut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize2019
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition by Naomi SeidmanEducation and Jewish Identity2019
Immigrant City by David BezmozgisFic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award2019
The Tenth Muse by Catherine ChungFic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award2019
Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking by Einat AdmonyFood Writing & Cookbooks2019
Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table: A Memoir with Recipes by Boris FishmanFood Writing & Cookbooks2019
Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen: A Cookbook by Adeena SussmanFood Writing & Cookbooks2019
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti FriedmanHistory2019
Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power by Yaakov KatzHistory2019
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi MagnessHistory2019
The world of Aufbau : Hitler's refugees in America by Peter SchragHistory2019
Bitter reckoning : Israel tries Holocaust survivors as Nazi collaborators by Dan PoratHolocaust Studies - in Memory of Ernest W. Michel2019
The yiddish historians and the struggle for a jewish history of the holocaust by Mark L. SmithHolo­caust2019
Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah E. LipstadtModern Jewish Thought and Experience2019
Frayed Light by Yonatan BergPoetry2019
The Many Names for Mother (Wick First Book) by Julia Kolchinsky DasbachPoetry2019
SoundMachine by Rachel ZuckerPoetry2019
Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library by Joshua TeplitskyScholarship2019
Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas by Yaacob DweckSephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award2019
Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico by David M. GitlitzSephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award2019
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya SteinSephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award2019
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora KrugVisual Arts2019
Chagall, El Lissitzky, Malevitch: The Russian Avant-garde in Vitebsk (1918-1922) by Angela LampeVisual Arts2019
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal DekelWriting Based on Archival Material2019
Color Me In by Natasha DiazYoung Adult Literature2019
My Real Name Is Hanna by Tara Lynn MasihYoung Adult Literature2019
What Makes Us by Rafi MittlefehldtYoung Adult Literature2019
What the Night Sings by Vesper StamperYoung Adult Literature2019

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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