National Jewish Book Award Winners

Jan 09, 2019

The Jewish Book Council has announced the winners of the 68th 2018 National Jewish Book Awards.

Select winners include:

  • Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Jewish Book of the Year Award Everett Family Foundation Award
  • The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas (Spiegel & Grau) - J.J. Greenberg Memorial Award in Fiction
  • Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer Bartov (Simon & Schuster) - The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel
  • Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom by Ariel Burger (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Biography Award In Memory of Sara Berenson Stone
  • Holy Moly Carry Me by Erika Meitner (BOA Editions) - Berru Award for Poetry in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash
  • Never a Native by Alice Shalvi (Halban Publishers) - Women's Studies Barbara Dobkin Award
  • The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser (Text Publishing) - Debut Fiction Goldberg Prize
  • Susan Shapiro - Carolyn Starman Hessel Mentorship Award

Click here for the full list of winners and finalists.

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