National Jewish Book AwardHolocaust

Given by Jewish Book Council

Other Names: Goldberg Prize for Fiction, Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers
93 Works / 94 Items 0 Books
"The National Jewish Book Awards have been presented annually since 1948 to authors of books of exceptional merit in a variety of Judaic subjects. The awards are designed to heighten awareness of show more outstanding books of Jewish interest published in the last year and • to encourage the reading of worthwhile books • to recognize authors of outstanding Jewish literature • to stimulate others to further literary creativity • to acknowledge original contributions to scholarship Th ese awards acknowledge the seminal importance of a particular work. In addition, there is a monetary award for each winning author, a public presentation to recognize the superior eff orts made by the author and publisher in preparing the winning piece of literature, and publicity for the event and the individual awardees." http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-award.html show less
Stages:
All, Winner (706), Finalist (784), Nominee (1), No Stage (14)
Categories:
All, American Jewish History (1), Amer­i­can Jew­ish Studies (51), Anthologies (1), Anthologies and Collections (37), Autobiography and Memoir (19), Autobiography/Memoir (24), Biography (20), Biography and Autobiography (2), Biography, Autobiography, Memoir (38), Book Club (6), Book Club Award (24), Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies (2), Children's Literature (72), Children's Picture Book (38), Children's and Young Adults' Literature (10), Children’s Literature & Jewish Family Literature (1), Children’s and Young Adult Literature (23), Contemporary Jewish Life (7), Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice (59), Contemporary Jewish Thought and Experience (1), Debut Fiction (22), Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize (5), Eastern European Studies (13), Education (3), Education and Jewish Identity (34), English Poetry (8), Everett Family Foundation (3), Everett Family Foundation Award (1), Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year (9), Fiction (124), Fiction JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award (1), Fiction, Book Club Award (2), Fiction, JJ Greenberg Memorial Award (4), Fic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award (6), First Time Author (1), Food Writing & Cookbooks (10), General Non Fiction (1), Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers (14), Hebrew Fiction in Translation (5), History (71), Holocaust (94), Holocaust Memoir & Mimi S. Frank Award (1), Holocaust Memoir Award (5), Holocaust Studies - in Memory of Ernest W. Michel (1), Holocaust, Biography (1), Holo­caust (2), Illustrated Children's Book (29), Israel (31), Jewish Book of the Year (5), Jewish Education (7), Jewish Family Literature (10), Jewish Folklore and Anthropology (2), Jewish History (30), Jewish Thought (42), Jewish-Christian Relations (12), Jew­ish Book of the Year Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Award (2), Middle Grade Literature (14), Modern Jewish Thought and Experience (54), Non-Fiction (11), Outstanding Debut Fiction (13), Poetry (38), Reference (13), Scholarship (75), Sephardic - Ashkenazic Culture (4), Sephardic Culture (35), Sephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award (4), Sephardic Studies (16), Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs (4), Sephardic-Ashkenazic Culture (1), Special Recognition (1), The JDC-Her­bert Katz­ki Award (1), Thought (2), Translation of English Poetry (1), Translation of a Jewish Classic (2), Visual Arts (48), Women Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award (1), Women's Studies (57), Writing Based on Archival Material (24), Yiddish Language and Culture (2), Yiddish Literature (1), Yiddish Poetry (2), Yiddish Studies (2), Young Adult (6), Young Adult Literature (20), No Category (6)
Years:
All, 2023 (3), 2022 (1), 2021 (4), 2020 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (4), 2016 (3), 2015 (2), 2014 (3), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (4), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (2), 2002 (4), 2000 (4), 1999 (3), 1998 (2), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1972 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (2), 1968 (1), 1966 (1)

Winner 49

WorkYear
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler2023
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower2021
The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell2020
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer Bartov2018
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman2017
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont2015
Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour by James A. Grymes2014
The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham2013
Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford Series on History and Archives) by Laura Jockusch2012
Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice by Gerald Steinacher2011
Remembering survival. Inside a nazi slave-labor camp by Christopher R. Browning2010
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA) (A & B) by Geoffrey P. Megargee2009
The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Father Patrick Desbois2008
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Götz Aly2007
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf2006
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah E. Lipstadt2005
The Origins of the Final Solution. The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning2004
Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust by Nechama Tec2002
Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder2002
Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945 by Evan Burr Bukey2000
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen1999
Between Dignity and Despair : Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan1998
Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer1998
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer1997
Auschwitz by Deborah Dwork1996
We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin by Marie Rút Křížková1995
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning1994
The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning by James E. Young1993
The Holocaust : the fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 by Leni Yahil1991
A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto by Abraham Lewin1990
Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War by Christopher Simpson1989
The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival by Susan Zuccotti1988
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton1987
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman1985
Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944 by Emil Dorian1984
None is too many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 by Irving M. Abella1983
Vichy France and the Jews by Michael R. Marrus1982
The Politics of Genocide : The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham1981
Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation by Benjamin B. Ferencz1980
Deliverance day: The last hours at Dachau by Michael Selzer1979
The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps by Terrence Des Pres1978
Jerusalem of Lithuania (3 volume set) by Layzer Ran1976
Judenrat : the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation by Isaiah Trunk1975
The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945 by Henry L. Feingold1972
Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre, (Fun Yiddishin Theater) YIDDISH ONLY Volume V Only by Zalme Zylberzweig1970
The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945 by Nora Levin1969
The Story of the Jewish Catastrophe in Europe. Experimental Edition 1967. by ed. Judah Pilch1969
And the crooked shall be made straight by Jacob Robinson1968
Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer, 1939-1945 by Zosa Szajkowski1966

Finalist 45

WorkYear
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany by Wolf Gruner2023
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust by Ari Joskowicz2023
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury2022
A Promise of Sweet Tea (Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs) by Pinchas Blitt2021
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca Frankel2021
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony by Abraham Sutzkever2021
Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community by H. G. Adler2017
Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne Nelson2017
Saving one's own : Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust by Mordecai Paldiel2017
The Holocaust in Croatia (Russian and East European Studies) by Ivo Goldstein2016
A History of the Grandparents I Never Had (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Ivan Jablonka2016
Lessons of the Holocaust (UTP Insights) by Michael R. Marrus2016
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann2015
Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During Thesecond World War by Robert Rozett2014
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth2014
Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood by Dori Katz2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower2013
Isaac's Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Matthew Brzezinski2012
At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944 by David Koker2012
A Hole in the Heart of the World: Being Jewish in Eastern Europe by Jonathan Kaufman2011
The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt2011
Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (Jewish Cultures of the World) by David Shneer2011
The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide by Daniel Blatman2010
The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust, 2 Volume set by Guy MIRON2010
The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City by Barbara Engelking2009
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses by Stephen H. Norwood2009
Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City by Gordon J. Horwitz2008
Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945 by Marion A. Kaplan2008
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer2007
Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive by Samuel D. Kassow2007
Numbered Days: Diaries and the Holocaust by Alexandra Garbarini2006
Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany by Alan E. Steinweis2006
Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps by Shirli Gilbert2005
Nine Suitcases: A Memoir by Bela Zsolt2005
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman2004
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp by Rochelle G. Saidel2004
Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork2003
Why Didn't the Press Shout?: American & International Journalism During the Holocaust by Robert Moses Shapiro2003
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer2002
Generation Exodus : The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany by Walter Laqueur2002
The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices by Elazar Barkan2000
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 by Michael Phayer2000
Troubled Memory by Lawrence N. Powell2000
Theatrical performance during the Holocaust : texts, documents, memoirs by Rebecca Rovit1999
Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust Through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts by Robert Moses Shapiro1999

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"The National Jewish Book Awards have been presented annually since 1948 to authors of books of exceptional merit in a variety of Judaic subjects. The awards are designed to heighten awareness of outstanding books of Jewish interest published in the last year and • to encourage the reading of worthwhile books • to recognize authors of outstanding Jewish literature • to stimulate others to further literary creativity • to acknowledge original contributions to scholarship Th ese awards acknowledge the seminal importance of a particular work. In addition, there is a monetary award for each winning author, a public presentation to recognize the superior eff orts made by the author and publisher in preparing the winning piece of literature, and publicity for the event and the individual awardees." http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-award.html (English, Member-written)
Established in 1999 and supported through a generous grant from the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers is among the very first of its kind to highlight new works by contemporary writers exploring Jewish themes. The prize spotlights promising new talent, and is awarded to an American fiction writer for a first or second full-length work that was published in the previous calendar year. http://www.jewishculture.org/?pid=literature (English, Member-written)

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