Awards & Winners

National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience

National Jewish Book Award

Check all the winners of National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience presented under National Jewish Book Award since 1949 .


David Patterson

Honored for : Emil J. Fackenheim

Lawrence A. Hoffman

Honored for : My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 1

Shuly Rabin Schwartz

Honored for : The Rabbi's Wife

David Ellenson

Honored for : After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity

Daniel C. Matt

Honored for : The Zohar

Arthur Hertzberg

Honored for : A Jew In America

Samuel Heilman

Honored for : When a Jew Dies

Jonathan Sacks

Honored for : A Letter in the Scroll

Norman Lamm

Honored for : Religious Thought of Hasidism

Rachel Adler

Honored for : Engendering Judaism

Rodger Kamenetz

Honored for : Stalking Elijah

Robert A Paul

Honored for : Moses and civilization

Michael Fishbane

Honored for : The Kiss of God: Spiritual and Mystical Death in Judaism

Susan Starr Sered

Honored for : Women As Ritual Experts

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Honored for : Freuds Moses. Endliches und unendliches Judentum

Neil Gillman

Honored for : Sacred fragments

Marc Saperstein

Honored for : Jewish Preaching, 1200-1800

Michael Rosenack

Honored for : Commandments and concerns

Marc D. Angel

Honored for : The orphaned adult

Arnold Eisen

Honored for : Galut

David Hartman

Honored for : A Living Convenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism

Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Lawrence Kaplan

Honored for : Halakhic man

Steven T. Katz

Honored for : Post-holocaust dialogues

Bernard Septimus

Honored for : Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: The Career and Controversies of Ramah

Robert Alter

Honored for : The art of Biblical narrative

Isadore Twersky

Honored for : Introduction to the Code of Maimonides

David Biale

Honored for : Gershom Scholem

Robert Gordis

Honored for : Love and Sex

Raphael Patai

Honored for : The Jewish Mind

David Hartman

Honored for : Maimonides

Solomon Freehof

Honored for : Contemporary Reform Response

Eliezer Berkovits

Honored for : Major themes in modern philosophies of Judaism

Eugene Borowitz

Honored for : The mask Jews wear

Samuel Sandmel

Honored for : Two living traditions

Elie Wiesel

Honored for : Souls on fire

Abraham Ezra Millgram

Honored for : Jewish worship

Mordecai Kaplan

Honored for : The Religion of Ethical Nationhood

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Honored for : Israel: an echo of eternity

Emil Fackenheim

Honored for : Quest for past and future

Michael A. Meyer

Honored for : The origins of the modern Jew

Nahum M. Sarna

Honored for : Understanding Genesis

Guido Kisch

Honored for : The Jews in Medieval Germany: A Study of Their Legal and Social Status

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Honored for : Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam