Awards & Winners

2008 National Jewish Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 2008 National Jewish Book Award. Check awards winners of 2008 National Jewish Book Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies

Julian Levinson

Honored for : Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture
National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir

Carole Kessner

Honored for : Marie Syrkin:Values Beyond the Self
National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Kathy Kacer

Honored for : The Diary of Laura's Twin
National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice

Harold M. Schulweis

Honored for : Conscience
National Jewish Book Award for Education and Jewish Identity

Roberta Louis Goodman

Honored for : What We Now Know About Jewish Education
Jewish Book of the Year Award

Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Honored for : The Torah: A Women's Commentary
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

Peter Manseau

Honored for : Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
National Jewish Book Award for History

Benny Morris

Honored for : 1948
National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Patrick Desbois

Honored for : The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
National Jewish Book Award for Best Illustrated Children's Books

Eric Kimmel

Honored for : The Mysterious Guests: A Sukkot Story
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Family Literature

Esther Takac

Honored for : Genesis-the Book with Seventy Faces: A guide for the Family
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

David Patterson

Honored for : Emil J. Fackenheim
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

Adam Shear

Honored for : The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900
National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture

K.E Fleming

Honored for : Greece--a Jewish History
National Jewish Book Award for Women's Studies

Aliza Lavie

Honored for : A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book
National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based On Archival Material

Martin Dean

Honored for : Robbing the Jews
National Jewish Book Award for Reference

Steven T. Katz

Honored for : The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 4