Bari Weiss, Deborah Lipstadt, and Etgar Keret receive honors; Tablet’s Newish Jewish Encyclopedia is a finalist.
Top awards go to Hunting the Truth by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas, and Alice Shalvi’s Never a Native
Francine Klagsbrun’s Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel takes the the top prize, and David Grossman’s much-heralded A Horse Walks Into a Bar wins the fiction category
‘Israel’ writer Daniel Gordis, novelist Michael Chabon, poet Stanley Moss, and children’s author Deborah Levy are among this year’s honorees
Shulem Deen, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, and Laura Amy Schlitz are among the winners
This year’s selections recognize diversity of Jewish Soviet emigré literature
Awards Yiddish Book Center nation’s highest honor for museums and libraries
Yossi Klein Halevi, Amos Oz, and Ari Shavit take home top 2013 honors
The National Jewish Book Awards, given out last night, host America’s most lucrative literary prize
A Tablet favorite Jewish Jocks is among the winners
2011 National Jewish Book Awards announced
The National Book Critics Circle and Jewish Book Council’s fêtes
What makes the guts of a novel Jewish?