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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

National Jewish Book Awards

'The Last Dekrepitzer' by National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Langer. (Courtesy/ Barbara Jaffe)
April 2, 2025, 12:23 pm
Fiddling with writing, lawyer pens award-winning book about busking rabbi in NYC
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
By Cathryn J. Prince
The Moreno Family from Tangier dressed up to emulate the Andalusian past in an instance of ‘Reenactment Tourism.’ Photography Studio in the Alhambra compound, Spain 1953. (Courtesy of Daniel Moreno)
March 10, 2025, 8:28 am
Morocco’s Spanish-speaking Jewish minority illuminated in prizewinning book
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
By Rossella Tercatin
In '10/7,' journalist Lee Yaron profiles victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre from a wide range of communities. (Uri Bareket; St. Martin's Press via JTA)
January 23, 2025, 2:56 pm
Young journalist’s accounts of Oct. 7 assault named Jewish book of the year
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
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride. (Random House, Catapult, Knopf, Riverhead via JTA)
January 24, 2024, 9:31 pm
Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust named Jewish book of the year
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
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
'Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew' by Michael W. Twitty (Amistad)
January 19, 2023, 1:08 am
Michael W. Twitty’s food memoir ‘Koshersoul’ named Jewish book of the year
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’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Cover of 'The Lost Shtetl' by Max Gross. (courtesy)
May 21, 2021, 7:28 am
Podcast: Escape reality into ‘The Lost Shtetl,’ the town that Hitler missed
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
The late Jonathan Sacks was given the top award for "Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times." (National Jewish Book Awards)
January 27, 2021, 7:42 pm
Jonathan Sacks’ final book takes top place at 2020 National Jewish Book Awards
‘Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times’ joined by dozens of other varied works as winners named by Jewish Book Council
By JTA
Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visits with friends on a field trip to Bali, Indonesia, in 1957. (AP Photo)
February 21, 2020, 4:29 pm
How a 19th century progressive Jewish scientist’s ideas beat out racist eugenics
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
By Rich Tenorio
In this December 5, 2017, photo, French Nazi hunters Beate Klarsfeld (l) and her husband Serge look at at photos of young Jews deported from France at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
January 10, 2019, 10:03 am
Nazi hunter couple’s memoir wins top US Jewish book award
Book by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, who have pursued Nazi war criminals for over half a century, honored as ‘Jewish Book of the Year’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Prof. Steven P. Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania's Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and Religion (courtesy)
March 7, 2018, 11:54 pm
To dig up genesis of the Jewish people, a scholar goes back to the sources
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
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Golda Meir (photo credit: GPO)
January 11, 2018, 12:17 am
Golda Meir biography takes top honor in National Jewish Book Awards
Francine Klagsbrun’s 800-page work on the late Israeli prime minister named Book of the Year for 2017
By JTA
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