Awards & Winners

1981 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1981 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 1981 National Jewish Book Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature

Leonard Everett Fisher

Honored for : A Russian farewell
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Johanna Kaplan

Honored for : O My America
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Randolph L. Braham

Honored for : The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary
National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish History

Mark Cohen

Honored for : Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

Isadore Twersky

Honored for : Introduction to the Code of Maimonides
National Jewish Book Award for Visual Arts

Yeshiva University Museum

Honored for : Purim: The Face and the Mask