2015 National Jewish Book Award Winners Announced

The Jewish Book Council's winners of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards include Daniel Torday for his novel The Last Flight of Poxl West (St. Martin's Press), Laura Amy Schlitz, the first winner of the Young Adult Literature award for The Hired Girl (Candlewick Press), and Tanya and Richard Simon, winners of the Children's Literature prize for their book Oskar and the Eight Blessings (Roaring Brook).

Other winners of North America’s longest-running awards program in the field of Jewish literature, now in its 65th year, include Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Marking his fifth win in the category, Sacks won the National Jewish Book Award in the Modern Jewish Thought for his book Not in God's Name (Schocken Books). Debut author Shulem Deen received the Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice award for his memoir All Who Go Do Not Return (Graywolf Press), and The Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award went to Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917 – 1947 (Knopf) author Bruce Hoffman.

For a complete list of 2015 National Jewish Book Award winners, visit here.

The winners of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards will be honored on March 9 at a gala awards celebration to be held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.