Awards & Winners

2005 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 2005 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 2005 National Jewish Book Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Jewish Book of the Year Award

Amos Oz

Honored for : A Tale of Love and Darkness
National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish History

Jerome Karabel

Honored for : The Chosen
National Jewish Book Award for Anthologies and Collections

Derek Rubin

Honored for : Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer
National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir

Masha Gessen

Honored for : Ester and Ruzya
National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Pinna Moed Kass

Honored for : Real Time
National Jewish Book Award for Best Illustrated Children's Books

Uri Shulevitz

Honored for : The travels of Benjamin of Tudela
National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice

Scott-Martin Kosofsky

Honored for : The book of customs
National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European Studies

Yuri Slezkine

Honored for : The Jewish Century
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Michael Chabon

Honored for : The Final Solution
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Deborah Lipstadt

Honored for : History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Family Literature

Laurie A. Jacobs

Honored for : A Box of Candles
National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish History

Mark Mazower

Honored for : Salonica, city of ghosts
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

David Ellenson

Honored for : After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity
National Jewish Book Award for Poetry

Gerald Stern

Honored for : Everything is Burning: Poems
National Jewish Book Award for Reference

Howard Schwartz

Honored for : Tree of Souls
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

Elliot Wolfson

Honored for : Language, Eros, Being
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture

Ilan Stavans

Honored for : The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature
National Jewish Book Award for Visual Arts

Emily D. Bilski

Honored for : Jewish Women and Their Salons
National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies

Ruth Andrew Ellenson

Honored for : The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt