16 January 2020
69. National Jewish Book Awards
Award for publication from the Dubnow Institute
Jewish Book Council announced the winners of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, now in its sixty-ninth year. The winners include the English translation of Dr. Elisabeth Gallas' publication »Das Leichenhaus der Bücher« (Studies of the Simon Dubnow Institute, vol. 19). Inaugurated in 1950, the National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind and is recognized as the most prestigious. The Awards are intended to recognize authors, and encourage reading, of outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest.
Awards are presented in over eighteen categories; Elisabeth Gallas won the JDC-Herbert Katzki Award, which honors books written based on archival material. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), for which Herbert Katzki worked, also plays a role in Gallas' publication.
The winning authors are celebrated at an annual gala in New York on March 17, 2020. Past notable winners include Bernard Malamud, Yair Mintzker, Michael Oren, Philip Roth, Elie Wiesel, Deborah Dash Moore and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso.
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