Awards & Winners

2007 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 2007 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 2007 National Jewish Book Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies

Edward K. Kaplan

Honored for : Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
National Jewish Book Award for Visual Arts

Murray Zimiles

Honored for : Gilded lions and jeweled horses
National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice

Vanessa L Ochs

Honored for : Inventing Jewish Ritual
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Götz Aly

Honored for : Hitler's Beneficiaries
National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir

György Konrád

Honored for : A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

Lawrence A. Hoffman

Honored for : My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 1
National Jewish Book Award for Poetry

Peter Cole

Honored for : The Dream Of The Poem
National Jewish Book Award for Best Illustrated Children's Books

Richard Ungar

Honored for : Even Higher
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Meir Shalev

Honored for : A Pigeon and a Boy
National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Marv Wolfman

Honored for : Homeland
National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies

Tova Hartman

Honored for : Feminism encounters traditional Judaism
National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European Studies

Maxim D. Shrayer

Honored for : An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two-Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose And Poetry, Two-Volume Set
National Jewish Book Award for History

Michael Makovsky

Honored for : Churchill's promised land
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Family Literature

Rita Roth

Honored for : Power of Song: And Other Sephardic Tales
National Jewish Book Award for Anthologies and Collections

Michael Fineberg

Honored for : Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture

Poopa Dweck

Honored for : Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

Moshe Idel

Honored for : Ben
Jewish Book of the Year Award

James Kugel

Honored for : How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Jewish Book Council Lifetime Achievement Award