Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Winner Announced

Michael David Lukas, author of The Last Watchman of Old Cairo (Spiegel & Grau, 2018), is the winner of the Jewish Book Council's 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. 

The prize, valued at $100,000, recognizes "emerging writers who explore the Jewish experience in a specific work of fiction and non-fiction in alternating years," according to the Jewish Book Council.  

Additionally, the Council's Choice Award went to Dalia Rosenfeld for The Worlds We Think We Know (Milkweed Editions, 2017) and is valued at $18,000, while the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize Fellows include Rachel Kadish (The Weight of Ink, HMH), Mark Sarvas (Memento Park, FSG), and Margot Singer (Underground Fugue, Melville House), each of whom received $5,000. 

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