National Jewish Book Awards 2020

by Jewish Book Council

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21 books

Inaugurated in 1950, the National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind and is recognized as the most prestigious. The Awards are intended to recognize authors, and encourage reading, of outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest.

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Jewish Book of the Year

Morality

Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Jonathan Sacks, 2020

American Jewish Studies

The Art of the Jewish Family

A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects

Laura Arnold Leibman, 2020

Autobiography and Memoir

When Time Stopped

A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

Ariana Neumann, 2020

Biography

From Left to Right

Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Nancy Sinkoff, 2020

Book Club Award

The Lost Shtetl

Max Gross, 2020

Children's Picture Book

Welcoming Elijah

A Passover Tale with a Tail

Leslea Newman, 2020

Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice

Judaism for the World

Reflections on God, Life, and Love

Arthur Green, 2020

Debut Fiction

Florence Adler Swims Forever

Rachel Beanland, 2020

Education and Jewish Identity

Hebrew Infusion

Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps

Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan Krasner, Sharon Avni, 2020

Fiction

Apeirogon: A Novel

Colum McCann, 2020

Food Writing and Cookbooks

Now for Something Sweet

Monday Morning Cooking Club, 2020

History

The Art of the Jewish Family

A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects

Laura Arnold Leibman, 2020

Holocaust

The Unanswered Letter

One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

Faris Cassell, 2020

Middle Grade Literature

The Blackbird Girls

Anne Blankman, 2020

Modern Jewish Thought and Experiance

Morality

Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Jonathan Sacks, 2020

Poetry

Nautilus and Bone

Lisa Richter, 2020

Scholarship

Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, 2020

Sephardic Culture

Forging Ties, Forging Passports

Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora

Devi Mays, 2020

Women's Studies

The Art of the Jewish Family

A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects

Laura Arnold Leibman, 2020

Writing Based on Archival Material

Blood Libel

On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

Magda Teter, 2020

Yound Adult Literature

The Way Back

Gavriel Savit, 2020