National Jewish Book AwardChildren's Literature

Given by Jewish Book Council

Other Names: Goldberg Prize for Fiction, Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
72 Works 0 Books
"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, 2019 (3), 2018 (4), 2017 (2), 2016 (3), 2015 (4), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2002 (4), 2000 (4), 1999 (3), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1962 (1), 1961 (1), 1960 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1954 (1), 1953 (1), 1952 (1)
Announced:
January 24: Winner2023 Recent
January 24: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 50

WorkYear
Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story by Lesléa Newman2019
All Three Stooges by Erica S. Perl2018
The Language of Angels: A Story About the Reinvention of Hebrew by Richard Michelson2017
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy2016
Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Tanya Simon2015
Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury by Ilene Cooper2002
Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience by Norman H. Finkelstein2002
The Day the Rabbi Disappeared: Jewish Holiday Tales of Magic by Howard Schwartz2000
With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish by Sandy Asher1999
Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle by Norman H. Finkelstein1998
The Golem: A Version by Barbara Rogasky1997
Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories by Howard Schwartz1996
Under the Domim Tree by Gila Almagor1995
Golden Windows and Other Stories of Jerusalem by Adèle Geras1994
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse1993
The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev1992
Becoming Gershona by Nava Semel1991
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry1990
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen1989
The Return by Sonia Levitin1988
Monday in Odessa by Eileen Bluestone Sherman1987
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 by Linda Atkinson1986
Good If It Goes by Gary Provost1985
The Jewish kids catalog by Chaya M. Burstein1984
King of the Seventh Grade by Barbara Cohen1983
The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky1982
A Russian farewell by Leonard Everett Fisher1981
Dita Saxova by Arnošt Lustig1980
Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer1978
Rifka Grows Up by Chaya M. Burstein1977
Haym Salomon: Liberty's Son by Shirley Gorson Milgrim1976
The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance by Bea Stadtler1975
Uncle Misha's Partisans by Yuri Suhl1974
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss1973
The master of miracle; a new novel of the Golem by Sulamith Ish-Kishor1972
Journey to America by Sonia Levitin1971
Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time; The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist, by Charlie May Simon1970
The story of Israel by Meyer Levin1967
The Dreyfus affair by Betty Schechter1966
Worlds lost and found; discoveries in Biblical archeology by Azriel Louis Eisenberg1965
A Boy of Old Prague by Sulamith Ish-Kishor1964
Return to Freedom by Josephine Kamm1963
Ten and a kid by Sadie Rose Weilerstein1962
Discovering Israel by Regina Tor1961
Keys to a magic door: Isaac Leib Peretz by Sylvia Rothchild1960
Border hawk: August Bondi by Lloyd Alexander1959
The junior Jewish encyclopedia by Naomi Ben-Asher1958
The Jewish People: Book III by Deborah Pessin1954
Stories of King David by Lillian S. Freehof1953
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor1952

Finalist 22

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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