Winners

 

Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award

 

SIX DAYS OF WAR
June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By Michael B. Oren
Oxford University Press

Review by Ziv Hellman

Interview with Michael Oren by Aviya Kushner

Anthology

 

CULTURES OF THE JEWS
A New History
Edited by David Biale
Schocken Books

 

 

Fiction

 

THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK
By Gary Shteyngart
Riverhead Books

 

 

Children and Young Adult Literature

 

JEWISH HOLIDAYS ALL YEAR ROUND
A Family Treasury
By Ilene Cooper
Illustrated by Elivia Savadier
Abrams Books in association with the Jewish Museum

 

 

Mimi Frank in Memory of Becky Levy Award: Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice

 

TO DO THE RIGHT AND THE GOOD
A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics
By Elliot N. Dorff
Jewish Publication Society

 

 

Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Award: History

 

IRVING HOWE
A Life of Passionate Dissent
By Gerald Sorin
NYU Press

 

 

Holocaust

 

RESILIENCE AND COURAGE
Women, Men, and the Holocaust
By Nehama Tec
Yale University Press

 

 

Scholarship

 

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JEWISH STUDIES
By Martin Goodman
Oxford University Press

 

 

Modern Jewish Thought and Experience

 

A JEW IN AMERICA
My Life and a People's Struggle for Identity
By Arthur Hertzberg

HarperCollins

 

 

Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's Studies

 

READING THE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE
By Tikvah Frymer-Kensky
Schocken

Review by India Edghill

First Time Author Award

 

IN THE IMAGE
By Dara Horn
W. W. Norton

Audio excerpt read by Dara Horn

Special Recognition Award

 

HANA'S SUITCASE
A True Story
By Karen Levine
Albert Whitman & Co.


Review by Kathy Bloomfield

 

 

Finalists

 

Fiction

A MEMORY OF WAR
By Frederick Busch
W. W. Norton

Mimi Frank in Memory of Becky Levy Award: Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice

CHANTING THE HEBREW BIBLE
By Joshua R. Jacobson
Jewish Publication Society

THE GOLDEN LAND
The Story of Jewish Immigration to America

Joseph Telushkin
Crown Publishing Group

Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Award: History

THE BUTCHER'S TALE
Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

By Helmut Walser Smith
W. W. Norton

BEYOND THE PALE
The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia
By Benajmin Nathans
University of California Press

THE PITY OF IT ALL
A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933
By Amos Elon
Metropolitan Books

Holocaust

HOLOCAUST
A History
By Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt
W.W. Norton

WHY DIDN'T THE PRESS SHOUT
American and International Journalism During the Holocaust

By Robert Moses Shapiro
KTAV Publishing House

Scholarship

GENTILE IMPURITIES AND JEWISH IDENTITIES
Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud
By Christine E. Hayes
Oxford University Press

THE JPS BIBLE COMMENTARY: HAFTAROT
By Michael Fishbane
Jewish Publication Society

Modern Jewish Thought and Experience

THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
Remember the Sabbath Day
By Francine Klagsbrun
Harmony Books

EHYEH
A Kabbalah for Tomorrow
By Arthur Green
Jewish Lights

Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's Studies

JPS GUIDE TO JEWISH WOMEN
600 B.C.E. – 1900 C.E.
By Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry and Cheryl Tallan
Jewish Publication Society

RESILIENCE AND COURAGE
Women, Men, and the Holocaust
By Nechama Tec
Yale University Press

THE WOMAN WHO DEFIED KINGS
The Life and Times of Doņa Gracia Nasi
By Andrée Aeilon Brooks
Paragon House