Awards & Winners

National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

National Jewish Book Award

Check all the winners of National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship presented under National Jewish Book Award since 1983 .


Adam Shear

Honored for : The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900

Moshe Idel

Honored for : Ben

Jon D. Levenson

Honored for : Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel

Elliot Wolfson

Honored for : Language, Eros, Being

Marc Zvi Brettler, Adelle Berlin

Honored for : The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, Torah, Nevi'im, Kethuvim

Martin Goodman

Honored for : The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

Seth Schwartz

Honored for : Imperialism and Jewish Society

Ruth Wisse

Honored for : The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture

Jeremy Cohen

Honored for : Living Letters of the Law

Reuven Hammer

Honored for : Entering the High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to History, Prayers, and Themes

David Weiss Halivni

Honored for : Revelation Restored

Marc Saperstein

Honored for : Your Voice Like A Ram's Horn: Themes and Texts in Traditional Jewish Teaching

Elliot Wolfson

Honored for : Through a speculum that shines

Ephraim Kanarfogel

Honored for : Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages

Steven D. Fraade

Honored for : From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre Deuteronomy

Gavin I. Langmuir

Honored for : History, Religion, and Anti-Semitism

Jeremy Cohen

Honored for : Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It, The Ancient and Medeival Career of a Biblical Text

Moshe Idel

Honored for : Kabbalah

Daniel M. Friedenberg

Honored for : Medieval Jewish seals from Europe

Reuven Hammer

Honored for : Sifre

Michael Fishbane

Honored for : Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel

Seymour Feldman, Gersonides

Honored for : The wars of the Lord

Shelomo Dov Goitein

Honored for : A Mediterranean society

Jeremy Cohen

Honored for : The Friars and the Jews