Jewish Book Awards Announced

by Daisy Maryles, Religion BookLine -- Publishers Weekly, 1/17/2007

The winners of the 56th Annual National Jewish Book Awards have been announced, with formal presentations to be made on March 6 at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. Awards will be presented in 17 categories.

Top winners includeA Code of Jewish Ethics: You Shall be Holy, Volume 1 by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, for Jewish Book of the Year (Crown); The World to Come by Dara Horn, for Fiction (Norton); The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn, for Biography and Autobiography (HarperCollins); Becoming Eichmann by David Cesarani, for History (Da Capo Press); The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf, for Holocaust (Harvard University Press); Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life by Jon Levinson, for Scholarship (Yale University Press).

Children’s and YA winners include The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, for Literature (Random House); The White Ram by Mordicai Gerstein, for Best Illustrated (Holiday House); and Lilith’s Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women by Deborah Bodin Cohen, for Family Literature (Jewish Publication Society).