Awards & Winners

1997 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1997 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 1997 National Jewish Book Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Lifetime Literary Achievement Award
National Jewish Book Award for Autobiography/Memoir

Elizabeth Ehrlich

Honored for : Miriam's Kitchen
National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature

Barbara Rogasky

Honored for : The Golem
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Saul Bellow

Honored for : The Actual: A Novella
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Saul Friedländer

Honored for : Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
National Jewish Book Award for Israel

Yaron Ezrahi

Honored for : Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Israel
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations

David Kertzer

Honored for : The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Education

Joseph Reimer

Honored for : Succeeding at Jewish Education
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History

Michael Meyer

Honored for : German-Jewish History in Modern Times
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

Rodger Kamenetz

Honored for : Stalking Elijah
National Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction

Ruth Gay

Honored for : Unfinished People
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

David Weiss Halivni

Honored for : Revelation Restored
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs

Claudia Roden

Honored for : The book of Jewish food
National Jewish Book Award for Visual Arts

Grace Cohen Grossman, Richard E. Ahlborn

Honored for : JUDAICA AT SMITHSONIAN PB