Twitty, Frank Win Jewish Book Awards

Jan 25, 2023

Winners of the 72nd National Jewish Book Awards were announced on January 18, recognizing over 20 works published in 2022. The top award, the Jewish Book of the Year, went to Kosher­Soul: The Faith and Food Jour­ney of an African Amer­i­can Jew by Michael W. Twitty (Amistad). Michael Frank won in both the Holocaust memoir category and Sephardic cul­ture the cat­e­go­ry with One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World (Avid Reader); Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood by Stephen Mills (Metropolitan) won in autobiography and memoir; and Sivan Zakai's My Sec­ond-Favorite Coun­try: How Amer­i­can Jew­ish Chil­dren Think About Israel (NYU) won in the education and Jewish identity category. For a full list of the winners, click here. 

The awards program honors "outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest" as part of the Jewish Book Council's mission to "enrich, educate, and strengthen the community through literature." An in-person ceremony honoring the winners is scheduled for March 1, 2023 in New York City. 

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