2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners Announced

The Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has announced the win­ners of the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners, which are now in their 69th year, for 2019. Select winners include Pamela S. Nadell, the recip­i­ent of the Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Book of the Year for America’s Jew­ish Women: A His­to­ry from Colo­nial Times to Today (W. W. Nor­ton & Com­pa­ny); Robert Alter, who has received a Life­time Achieve­ment Award for his decades-long project The Hebrew Bible: A Trans­la­tion with Com­men­tary (W. W. Nor­ton & Company); and András Koerner, who is the recipient of the inaugural Jane and Stu­art Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award for Food Writ­ing and Cook­books, for Jew­ish Cui­sine in Hun­gary: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry with 83 Authen­tic Recipes (Central European University Press).

Click here for a complete list of winners.

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