Awards & Winners

1998 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1998 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 1998 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

Marcel Bénabou

Honored for : Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun, a family epic
National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature

Norman Finkelstein

Honored for : Heeding the call
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Aharon Appelfeld, Jeffrey M. Green

Honored for : The Iron Tracks
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Marion A Kaplan

Honored for : Between dignity and despair
National Jewish Book Award for Israel

Nissim Rejwan

Honored for : Israel's Place in the Middle East
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations

Susannah Heschel

Honored for : Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Education

Adrianne Bank, Ron Wolfson

Honored for : First Fruit: A Whizin Anthology of Jewish Family Education
National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish History

Miriam Bodian

Honored for : Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

Rachel Adler

Honored for : Engendering Judaism
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Leon Wieseltier

Honored for : Kaddish
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

Reuven Hammer

Honored for : Entering the High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to History, Prayers, and Themes
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture and Customs

Michele Klein

Honored for : A time to be born
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies

Robert Brody

Honored for : The Geonim of Babylonia
National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies

Paula Hyman, Deborah Dash Moore

Honored for : Jewish Women in America