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Awards: National Jewish Book Awards
1999 Winners and Finalists
Education/Leon Jolson Award Winner
Transmission and Transformation
A Jewish Perspective on Moral Education
by Carol K. Ingall
This slim volume is chock-full of excellent ideas and offers a variety of approaches to developing an integrated program of Jewish moral education. (Winner)
Finalist:
Becoming a Jewish Parent
How to Explore Spirituality and Tradition with Your Children
by Daniel Gordis
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History/Gerard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Award Winner
Berlin Metropolis
Jews and the New Culture 1890-1918
by Emily D. Bilski (ed.)
A companion catalogue to the eponymous exhibit held at the Jewish Museum in New York City, this impressive volume explores the relationship between Jews and modernism. It contains scholarly and insightful essays by leading historians and beautiful reproductions of representative art works and contemporary periodicals, reminding us that museums, no less than universities, make significant contributions to the study and dissemination of history.
(Winner)
Finalists:
The Last Survivor
The Search for Martin Zaidenstadt
by Timothy Ryback
The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste
Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture
by Lois C. Dubin
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Holocaust/Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award Winner
Israel and Zionism/Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award Winner
The Multiple Identities of the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis
Lewis, the renowned Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Priceton University, examines the various countries that make up the Middle East. Although the Middle East is indeed the birthplace of ancient civilizations, most of the modern states that occupy its territory are of recent origin. In THE MULTIPLE IDENTITIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST, Lewis elucidates -- through an examination of religion, race, and language -- the critical role of identity in the domestic, regional, and international tensions and conflicts characterizing the Middle East today. (Winner)
Finalist:
Righteous Victims
A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999
by Benny Morris
Waging Peace
Israelis and Arabs at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Itamar Rabinovich
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Jewish-Christian Relations/Charles H. Revson Foundation Award Winner
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
by Paula Fredricksen
JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS by Paula Fredriksen is the story of the modern quest for the historical Jesus -- or, as the author describes her topic, the historical Jesus and the Jewish origins of Christianity. The gains made in our knowledge of first-century Judaism, for example, through the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, have provided new sources for this reinterpretation of Jesus. The author, an acclaimed historian of Christianity, uses Jewish and Christian sources such as the Scrolls; early rabbinic writings; and Jewish authorities of the time, such as Philo, Paul, and
Josephus. She is a writer and a teacher whose text aims to educate and give readers a sense of living history.
(Winner)
Finalist:
Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue
Cultural Interaction During the Greco-Roman Period
by Steven Fine
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