The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/national-jewish-book-awards/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:44:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png National Jewish Book Awards | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/national-jewish-book-awards/ 32 32 Former Hamas captive Eli Sharabi’s memoir ‘Hostage’ named Jewish book of the year https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-hamas-captive-eli-sharabis-memoir-hostage-named-jewish-book-of-the-year/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:43:28 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3756885 Sharabi, grateful for prestigious literature honor from North America's Jewish Book Council, says recognition meaningful for 'memory of all those we lost'

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]]> Fiddling with writing, lawyer pens award-winning book about busking rabbi in NYC https://www.timesofisrael.com/fiddling-with-writing-lawyer-pens-award-winning-book-about-busking-rabbi-in-nyc/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:23:31 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3501551 Winning the National Jewish Book Award for his debut novel 'The Last Dekrepitzer' at age 74, banjo-playing law prof Howard Langer says it's not always about writing what you know

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]]> Morocco’s Spanish-speaking Jewish minority illuminated in prizewinning book https://www.timesofisrael.com/moroccos-spanish-speaking-jewish-minority-illuminated-in-prizewinning-book/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:28:44 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3494509 National Jewish Book Award recipient Aviad Moreno’s work focuses on northern Morocco’s Hispanic Jews, whose yearning for a 'homeland' was often for Spain, not elusive Israel

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]]> Young journalist’s accounts of Oct. 7 assault named Jewish book of the year https://www.timesofisrael.com/young-journalists-accounts-of-oct-7-assault-named-jewish-book-of-the-year/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:56:57 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3466057 Jewish Book Council gives top honor to Lee Yaron for her '10/7: 100 Human Stories'; reporter Amir Tibon wins best autobiography for account of how parents rescued him from attack

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]]> Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust named Jewish book of the year https://www.timesofisrael.com/critics-account-of-classical-music-after-the-holocaust-named-jewish-book-of-the-year/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:31:12 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3208756 Jeremy Eichler’s 'Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance' is joined by many other notable titles at the 73rd annual Jewish Book Awards

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]]> Michael W. Twitty’s food memoir ‘Koshersoul’ named Jewish book of the year https://www.timesofisrael.com/michael-w-twittys-food-memoir-koshersoul-named-jewish-book-of-the-year/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 23:08:09 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2929514 Jewish Book Council hails book, which details US chef's career of fusing Jewish and African-American cooking, for its 'deep dives into theology, identity, and, of course, food'

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]]> Podcast: Escape reality into ‘The Lost Shtetl,’ the town that Hitler missed https://www.timesofisrael.com/podcast-escape-reality-into-the-lost-shtetl-the-town-that-hitler-missed/ Fri, 21 May 2021 04:28:15 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2549222 Author Max Gross lifts up the veil on his mysterious book about a small Polish Jewish town that fell off the map for decades till it abruptly encountered modernity

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]]> Jonathan Sacks’ final book takes top place at 2020 National Jewish Book Awards https://www.timesofisrael.com/jonathan-sacks-final-book-takes-top-place-at-2020-national-jewish-book-awards/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:42:56 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2477408 'Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times' joined by dozens of other varied works as winners named by Jewish Book Council

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]]> How a 19th century progressive Jewish scientist’s ideas beat out racist eugenics https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-19th-century-progressive-jewish-scientists-ideas-beat-out-racist-eugenics/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:29:12 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2242648 National Jewish Book Award-winner Charles King's 'Gods of the Upper Air' tells how a cohort of women scholars helped Franz Boaz give birth to the field of anthropology

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]]> Nazi hunter couple’s memoir wins top US Jewish book award https://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-hunter-couples-memoir-wins-top-us-jewish-book-award/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:03:59 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com?p=1995946&preview=true&preview_id=1995946 Book by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, who have pursued Nazi war criminals for over half a century, honored as 'Jewish Book of the Year'

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]]> To dig up genesis of the Jewish people, a scholar goes back to the sources https://www.timesofisrael.com/to-excavate-genesis-of-the-jewish-people-a-scholar-goes-back-to-the-source/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:54:09 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1797208 National Jewish Book Award winner Steven Weitzman's 'The Origin of the Jews' is an odyssey into a nation's most basic need: To understand where it comes from

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]]> Golda Meir biography takes top honor in National Jewish Book Awards https://www.timesofisrael.com/golda-meir-biography-takes-top-honor-in-national-jewish-book-awards/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:17:39 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1768792 Francine Klagsbrun's 800-page work on the late Israeli prime minister named Book of the Year for 2017

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