Awards & Winners

2006 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 2006 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 2006 National Jewish Book Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir
National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity

Faydra Shapiro

Honored for : Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture

Dan Ben-Amos

Honored for : Folktales of the Jews
National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice

Ellen B. Sucov

Honored for : Fragmented Families: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Jeffrey Herf

Honored for : The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European Studies

Marci Shore

Honored for : Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968
National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies

Esther Schor

Honored for : Emma Lazarus
National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies

Shaye J.D. Cohen

Honored for : Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?
National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Markus Zusak

Honored for : The Book Thief
National Jewish Book Award for History

David Cesarani

Honored for : Becoming Eichmann
National Jewish Book Award for Best Illustrated Children's Books

Mordicai Gerstein

Honored for : The white ram
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

Shuly Rabin Schwartz

Honored for : The Rabbi's Wife
National Jewish Book Award for Anthologies and Collections

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Honored for : Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Family Literature

Deborah Bodin Cohen

Honored for : Lilith's Ark
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Dara Horn

Honored for : The World to Come: A Novel
Jewish Book of the Year Award

Joseph Telushkin

Honored for : A code of Jewish ethics
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

Jon D. Levenson

Honored for : Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel