2017 National Jewish Book Award Winners Announced

Jan 11, 2018

The Jewish Book Council has announced the winners for the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards, the 67th installment in North America’s longest-running awards program in the field of Jewish literature

Select winners include:

  • Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun (Schocken Books) - Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year Award
  • A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman and translated by Jessica Cohen (Alfred A. Knopf) - JJ Greenberg Memorial Award in Fiction
  • The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David Fishman (ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England) - The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel
  • The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - The Miller Family Book Club Award in Memory of Helen Dunn Weinstein and June Keit Miller
  • Waiting for the Light by Alicia Suskin Ostriker (University of Pittsburgh Press) - Berru Award for Poetry in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash
  • Gary Rosenblatt - Carolyn Starman Hessel Mentorship Award

Click here for the full list of winners.

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