Awards & Winners

National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

National Jewish Book Award

Check all the winners of National Jewish Book Award for Fiction presented under National Jewish Book Award since 1949 .


Peter Manseau

Honored for : Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Meir Shalev

Honored for : A Pigeon and a Boy

Dara Horn

Honored for : The World to Come: A Novel

Michael Chabon

Honored for : The Final Solution

Marjorie Sandor

Honored for : Portrait of my Mother, who Posed Nude in Wartime

Gary Shteyngart

Honored for : The Russian Debutante's Handbook

Jonathan Safran Foer

Honored for : Everything is Illuminated

David Lieber, Jules Harlow

Honored for : Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary

Philip Roth

Honored for : The Human Stain

Samuel G. Freedman

Honored for : Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry

Steve Stern

Honored for : The Wedding Jester

Zvi Kolitz

Honored for : Yosl Rakover Talks to God

Aharon Appelfeld, Jeffrey M. Green

Honored for : The Iron Tracks

Leon Wieseltier

Honored for : Kaddish

Saul Bellow

Honored for : The Actual: A Novella

Evan Zimroth

Honored for : Gangsters

Rebecca Goldstein

Honored for : Mazel

Alan Isler

Honored for : The Prince of West End Avenue

A. B. Yehoshua

Honored for : Mr. Mani

Dalya Bilu, Nathan Shaham

Honored for : The Rosendorf Quartet

Chaim Potok

Honored for : The Gift of Asher Lev

A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin

Honored for : Five Seasons

Aharon Appelfeld

Honored for : The Immortal Bartfuss

Philip Roth

Honored for : The Counterlife

Arnošt Lustig, Vera Kalina-Levine

Honored for : The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S

Frederick Busch

Honored for : Invisible Mending

Arthur A. Cohen

Honored for : An Admirable Woman

Robert Greenfield

Honored for : Temple

Mark Helprin

Honored for : Ellis Island and Other Stories

Johanna Kaplan

Honored for : O My America

Daniel Fuchs

Honored for : Apathetic Bookie Joint

Gloria Goldreich

Honored for : Leah's Journey

Chaim Grade

Honored for : The Yeshiva

Cynthia Ozick

Honored for : Bloodshed and Three Novellas

Johanna Kaplan

Honored for : Other People's Lives

Jean Karsavina

Honored for : White Eagle, Dark Skies

Francine Prose

Honored for : Judah the Pious

Robert Kotlowitz

Honored for : Somewhere Else

Cynthia Ozick

Honored for : The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

Leo Litwak

Honored for : Waiting for the News

Charles Angoff

Honored for : Memory of Autumn

Chaim Grade

Honored for : The Well

Meyer Levin

Honored for : The Stronghold

Leon Uris

Honored for : Exodus

Bernard Malamud

Honored for : The Assistant

Lion Feuchtwanger

Honored for : Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo

Louis Zara

Honored for : Blessed is the Land

Charles Angoff

Honored for : In the Morning Light

Michael Blankt

Honored for : The Juggler

Zelda Popkin

Honored for : Quiet street

Soma Morgenstern

Honored for : The Testament of the Lost Son

John Hersey

Honored for : The Wall

Howard Fast

Honored for : My Glorious Brothers