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While our dinner celebration has been postponed, we will continue our silent auction through August 15, 2020! We hope you will consider supporting Jewish Book Council by bidding on one of these very special items.
Important COVID-19 Update
It's with great sadness that we share that we will be postponing the March 17th National Jewish Book Award gathering and March 18th luncheon at Touro College. Due to updated reports, including the recent advisory from the CDC, we feel it's best to err on the side of caution when it comes to matters of health, and we hope you understand that this decision comes with a heavy heart and was not taken lightly.
We will miss seeing you at the celebratory dinner, but we hope that we can find another time to celebrate with you all in the near future. We will be working to reschedule the dinner and will send an update as soon as possible. In the meantime, we hope you will consider contributing to our silent auction above to help support Jewish Book Council's mission to educate and enrich the community throughout the year through Jewish literature.
Join us at our biggest literary event of the year, held annually since 1950, as we celebrate the finest Jewish literature of 2019 and toast our award-winning authors.
The host for the 2020 celebration dinner honoring our 2019 winners is Jeffrey Yoskowitz of The Gefilte Manifesto. The event will be located at the Bohemian National Hall in New York City.
The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running Jewish book awards program in North America and is recognized as the most prestigious. The awards, presented by category, are designed to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to further literary creativity, and to encourage the reading of worthwhile titles. Jewish books are critical to our survival as an educated Jewish people.
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JBC's inaugural silent auction is now live!
The auction will end on August 15, 2020. Please click "view items" or "items" above to bid.
We are pleased to announce that in celebration of our newest National Jewish Book Award, the Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award for Food Writing and Cookbook, we are highlighting Jewish cuisine in Jewish Book Council's inaugural silent auction.
Each experience and item showcases a Jewish individual or experience involved in the world of food and beverage, and funds will support Jewish Book Council's year-round efforts to educate and enrich the community through Jewish literature. Our work throughout the year makes it possible for us to present over 20 literary awards, facilitate over 1,300 literary events annually, provide discussion resources to nearly 2,000 book clubs, and connect half a million readers to Jewish literature and ideas each year.
2019 National Jewish Book Award Winners
View more details about the winners and finalists here.
Jewish Book of the Year - Everett Family Foundation Award
America's Jewish Women
Pamela S. Nadell
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Hebrew Bible
Robert Alter
Mentorship Award in Honor of Carolyn Starman Hessel
Dena W. Neusner
American Jewish Studies - Celebrate 350 Award
The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism
Kenneth D. Wald
Anthologies and Collections
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)
Naomi B. Sokoloff, Nancy E. Berg, eds.
Autobiography and Memoir - The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg
Inheritance
Dani Shapiro
Biography - In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone
Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination
David E. Lowe
Book Club - The Miller Family Award in Memory of Helen Dunn Weinstein and June Keit Miller
The World That We Knew
Alice Hoffman
Children's Literature
Gittel's Journey
Lesléa Newman; Amy June Bates, illus.
Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice - Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Bari Weiss
Debut Fiction - Goldberg Prize
Naamah
Sarah Blake
Education and Jewish Identity - In Memory of Dorothy Kripke
Antisemitism
Deborah Lipstadt
Fiction - JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
Fly Already: Stories
Etgar Keret
Food Writing & Cookbooks - Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award
Jewish Cuisine in Hungary
András Koerner
History - Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
The Guarded Gate
Daniel Okrent
Holocaust - In Memory of Ernest W. Michel
The Unwanted
Michael Dobbs
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience- Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson
Legacy of Blood
Elissa Bemporad
Poetry - Berru Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
Scholarship - Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award
Rashi's Commentary on the Torah
Eric Lawee
Sephardic Culture - Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky Levy
Lethal Provocation
Joshua Cole
Visual Arts
Edith Halpert, the Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art
Rebecca Shaykin
Women Studies - Barbara Dobkin Award
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement
Naomi Seidman
Writing Based on Archival Material - The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award
A Mortuary of Books
Elisabeth Gallas; Alex Skinner, trans.
Young Adult Literature
Someday We Will Fly
Rachel DeWoskin
Schedule of Events
6:00 PM
Private pre-dinner reception with award winners, JBC's Board of Directors, and JBC Patrons and Benefactors
6:30 PM
General reception with all guests
7:00 PM
Sit down dinner with award presentations and ceremony
Jewish Book Council's Website
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