List of winners of the National Jewish Book Award

This is a list of the winners of the National Jewish Book Award by category. The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature. They are awarded by the Jewish Book Council, a New-York based non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Jewish literature since 1944.

American Jewish History

The awards in the American Jewish History category, Celebrate 350, are presented to authors or editors of non-fiction books about the Jewish experience in North America.

Year	Title	Author
2005
2006	Emma Lazarus
2007	Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
2008	Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture
2009	We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962
2010	'
2011	'
2012	Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life
2013	FDR and the Jews	and Allan J. Lichtman
2014	'
2015	Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
2016	Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food
2017	Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
2018	'
2019	'
2020	'
2021	'	and Michael Casper
2022	American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York	and David N. Myers
2023	Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York
2024	'

Anthologies and Collections

The awards in the Anthologies and Collections category are presented to editors of books of essays, biographies, short stories, or other collected works by one or more authors.
The National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections category was not awarded in 2014, 2017, 2018 and there was only one winner for the 2002-2003 period.

Autobiography and Memoir

The awards in the Autobiography and Memoir category, the Krauss Family Awards in Memory of Simon & Shulamith Goldberg, are presented to authors of a family history, autobiography, personal memoir either of a Jew or family of being significantly related to the Jewish experience.
There was no winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Autobiography and Memoir category for 1987, 1988, 2002 to 2006.

Biography

The awards in the Biography category, In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone, are presented to authors of a biography that is significantly related to the Jewish experience.
There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Biography category between 1986 and 2018.

Book Club Award

The awards in the Book Club Award category, the Miller Family Awards in Memory of Helen Dunn Weinstein and June Keit Miller, are presented to authors of an outstanding work of fiction or nonfiction that inspires meaningful conversation about Jewish life, identity, practice, or history.

Year	Title	Author
2016	And After the Fire
2017	'
2018	'
2019	'
2020	'
2021	'
2022	Shayna
2023	'
2024

Children's Literature

The awards in the Children's Literature category are presented to authors and illustrators of a Jewish-themed children book.
The name the awards were known by changed on several occasions over the years:

1952 - 1955: Issac Sigel Memorial Award
1958: Pioneer Women's Hayim Greenberg Memorial Award
1957 - 1967: Issac Sigel Memorial Award
1970 - 1980: Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Juvenile Award
1981 - 1986: William Frank Memorial Award Presented by Ellen and David Scheinfeld
1987 - 1991: Anita and Martin Shapolsky Award
1992: The Once Upon A Time Bookstore Award
1993 - 1994: The Barbara Cohen Memorial Award
1995 - 2019: No specific name for the award in the category

There was no National Jewish Book Award for the Children's Literature category in 1956, 1957, 1968, 1969 and for the years 2004 to 2014.
In 1970, there were two winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category and only one winner for the 2002-2003 period.

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator
1952	All-of-a-Kind Family
1953	Stories of King David
1954	'
1958	'	and Hayim Leaf
1959	Border Hawk: August Bondi
1960	Keys to a Magic Door: Isaac Leib Peretz
1961	Discovering Israel
1962	Ten and a Kid
1963	Return to Freedom
1964	'
1965	Worlds Lost and Found: Discoveries in Biblical Archeology	and Dov Peretz Elkins
1966	'
1967	'
1970	Martin Buber: Wisdom in Our Time; The Story of an Outstanding Jewish Thinker and Humanist
1970	'
1971	Journey to America
1972	'
1973	'
1974	Uncle Misha's Partisans
1975	'	and Morrison David Bial
1976	Haym Salomon Liberty's Son
1977	Rifka Grows Up
1978	Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
1980	Dita Saxova
1981	'
1982	'
1983	King of the Seventh Grade
1984	'
1985	Good If It Goes	and Gail Levine-Friedus
1986	In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944
1987	Monday in Odessa
1988	'
1989	'
1990	Number the Stars
1991	Becoming Gershona	and Seymour Simckes
1992	'	and Hillel Halkin,
1993	Letters from Rifka
1994	Golden Windows and Other Stories of Jerusalem
1995	Under the Domim Tree	and Hillel Schenker
1996	Next Year in Jerusalem: 3000 Years of Jewish Stories
1997	'
1998	Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle
1999	With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish
2000	'
2001	Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience
2002-2003	Jewish Holidays All Year Round: A Family Treasury
2015	Oskar and the Eight Blessings	and Richard Simon
2016	I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
2017	'
2018	All Three Stooges
2019	Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story

Children's picture book

The awards in the Children's Picture Book category are presented to authors and illustrators. The award was known as the Marcia and Louis Posner Awardfrom 1989 to 1993 and as Louis Posner Memorial Award from 1994 to 2001
There were no winners of the National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Picture Book category in 1984, 1995 and 1996.

Year	Title	Author	Illustrator
1983	Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story
1985	Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks
1986	Brothers: A Hebrew Legend
1987	Poems for Jewish Holidays
1988	Exodus
1989	Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale
1990	Berchick
1991	Hanukkah!
1992	Chicken Man
1993	Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas
1994	'
1997	Marven of the Great North Woods
1998	You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks
1999	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
2000	Moishe's Miracle: A Hanukkah Story
2001	'
2023	Two New Years
2024	Sharing Shalom

Contemporary Jewish life and practices

The awards in the Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices category are presented to authors of a non-fiction book about current tools and resources for Jewish living. The award was known as the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levythe in 2002-2003 and as the Myra H. Kraft Memorial Awards since 2011.

Contemporary Jewish thought and experience

The awards in the Contemporary Jewish thought and experience category, the Maurice Amado Foundation Award, are presented to authors of books about the contemporary Jewish experience.

Debut fiction

The awards in the Debut Fiction category, the Goldberg Prizes, are presented to authors for their first published novel or short-story collection with Jewish content. The awards were known as the Foundation for Jewish Culture Goldberg Prize from 2011 to 2014. There were no prizes awarded from 2004 to 2009.

Eastern European studies

The awards in the Eastern European Studies category, the Ronald S. Lauder Awards, are presented to authors of books about Eastern Europe. There were no winners in this category in 2001, 2003, and 2004.

Education and Jewish identity

The awards in the Education and Jewish Identity category are presented to authors of nonfiction works, textbooks excluded, that focuses on the theory, history, or practice of Jewish education and identity. There were no winners in this category in 2007, 2009, and 2011. The award has been presented in memory of Dorothy Kripke since 2008.

English poetry

The awards in the English Poetry category are presented to the authors of Jewish poetry in English. There were no winners in this category from 1952 to 1958, in 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970 and from 1972 to 1976. At its inception, in 1951, the award was known as the Florence Dovner Memorial Poetry Award. From 1959 to 1977, it was known as the Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Poetry Award.

Year	Title	Author
1951	Jerusalem Has Many Faces
1959	Come Under the Wings: A Midrash on Ruth
1960	'
1962	Works and Days and other Poems.
1966	'
1969
1971	Traveler through time
1977	From the Backyard of the Diaspora.

Jewish Book of the Year

The award for Jewish Book of the Year, the Everett Family Foundation Award, is presented to authors and editors of Jewish books.

Fiction

The JJ Greenberg Memorial Award, named after a former President of the Jewish Book Council, is awarded to authors of a novel or short-story collection of exemplary literary merit, with Jewish content.

Food Writing and Cookbook

The awards in the Food Writing and Cookbook category, the Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award, are presented to authors of cookbooks or works of food writing that explores Jewish identity, history, and culture.

Year	Title	Author
2019	Jewish Cuisine in Hungary. A Cultural History with 83 Authentic Recipes
2020	Now for Something Sweet	Monday Morning Cooking Club
2021	Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews
2022	Cooking alla Giudia: A Celebration of the Jewish Food of Italy
2023	Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met At Dubrow's Cafeteria
2024	Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

History

The awards in the History category, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award, are presented to authors of non-fiction books concerning Jewish history.

Illustrated children's book

The awards in the Illustrated Children's Book category, the Louis Posner Memorial Awards, are presented jointly to authors and illustrators of Jewish illustrated children's book.

Jewish education

The awards in the Jewish Education category, the Leon Jolson Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject.

Jewish family literature

The awards in the Jewish Family Literature category, in memory of Dorothy Kripke, are presented to authors of books on the subject.

Jewish folklore and anthropology

The awards in the Jewish folklore and anthropology category, the Raphael Patai Award, are presented to authors and editors of books on the subject.

Jewish-Christian relations

The awards in the Jewish-Christian Relations category, the Charles H. Revson Foundation Awards, are presented to authors of books on the subject.

Mentorship Award

This award seeks to recognize individuals employed in traditional publishing or working independently as editors, agents, publicists, publishers, literary critics and have exhibited substantial engagement with Jewish authors.

Poetry

The awards in the Poetry category, the Berru Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash, are presented to authors of books of verse consisting primarily of poems of Jewish concern.

Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs

The awards in the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs from 1997 to 2000, the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy, and in 2001, the Maurice Amado Foundation Award are presented to authors of books on the subjects.

Sephardic Culture

The awards in the Sephardic Culture category, the Mimi Frank Award In Memory of Becky Levy, are presented to authors and editors of books that explore the traditions and practices unique to Sephardic Jews.

Sephardic Studies

The awards in the Sephardic Studies category, the Maurice Amado Foundation Awards, were presented to authors and translators of Sephardic studies books from 1992 to 2000. In 2001, the award's name changed to the Jewish Book Council Award.