National Jewish Book Awards 2024

by Jewish Book Council

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24 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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See the source list and commentary at www.jewishbookcouncil.org

Jewish Book Of The Year

10/7

100 Human Stories

Lee Yaron, 2024

American Jewish Studies

A Cold War Exodus

How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

Shaul Kelner, 2024

Autobiography & Memoir

The Gates of Gaza

A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands

Amir Tibon, 2024

Biography

Leonard Cohen

The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

Christophe Lebold, 2024

Book Club Award

The Last Dekrepitzer

Howard Langer, 2024

Children's Picture Book

Sharing Shalom

Danielle Sharkan, 2024

Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice

The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic

Rereading the Women of the Talmud

Gila Fine, 2024

Debut Fiction

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden, 2024

Education and Jewish Identity

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

Emmanuel Acho, Noa Tishby, 2024

Fiction

Songs for the Brokenhearted

Ayelet Tsabari, 2024

Food Writing and Cookbooks

Forbidden

A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

Jordan D. Rosenblum, 2024

Hebrew Fiction In Translation

The Hebrew Teacher

Maya Arad, 2024

History

Reading Herzl in Beirut

The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy

Jonathan Marc Gribetz, 2024

Holocaust

Occupied Words

What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay, 2024

Holocaust Memoir Award

Warsaw Testament

Rokhl Auerbach, 2024

Middle Grade Literature

Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop

Joshua S. Levy, 2024

Modern Jewish thought and experience

Tablets Shattered

The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life

Joshua Leifer, 2024

Poetry

The Story of Your Obstinate Survival

Daniel Khalastchi, 2024

Scholarship

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

Simcha Gross, 2024

Sephardic culture

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas

Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community

Aviad Moreno, 2024

Visual arts

101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel

Raquel Ukeles, Hezi Amiur, Yoel Finkelman, Stefan Litt, Samuel Thrope, 2023

Women's Studies

Holy Rebellion

Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel

Ronit Irshai, Tanya Zion-Waldoks, 2024

Writing Based on Archival Material

The Business of Transition

Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule

Paris Papamichos Chronakis, 2024

Young Adult Literature

Night Owls

A. R. Vishny, 2024