National Jewish Book Awards
		The Award
		Winners and Finalists
		Previous Winners
	Categories
		Fiction
		Nonfiction
		Children's Literature
		Autobiography/Memoir
		Children's Picture Book (The Louis Posner Memorial Award)
		Eastern European Studies
		Education (The Leon Jolson Award)
		History (The Gerrard and Ella Berman Philanthropic Fund Award)
		Holocaust (Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award)
		Israel (Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Foundation Award)
		Jewish-Christian Relations (Charles H. Revson Foundation Award)
		Jewish Thought (Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson Award)
		Reference
		Scholarship Award
		Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture (Mimi Frank Award, in Memory of Becky Levy)
		Sephardic Studies (Maurice Amado Foundation Award)
		Women's Studies (The Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award, by Her Friends)
		Yiddish Language and Culture/The Forward Foundation Award

 
Jewish Thought/Dorot Foundation Award in Memory of Joy Ungerleider Mayerson Winner

The Religious Thought of Hasidism by Norman Lamm While much scholarship has focused on the spiritual background of the Hasidim, little attention has been paid to their intellectual history. This volume brilliantly fills that gap with a study that is encompassing, extensive, and accessible.  (Winner) Finalists: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966 by Mark Shapiro Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Louis Jacobs

 
Reference Award Winner

The Hebrew Folktale History, Genre, Meaning by Eli Yassif Yassif delineates the periods and trends of this genre in Hebrew literature, ranging from biblical times to the contemporary world, and he uses an extensive outlining system to focus on major themes in each period.  (Winner) Finalists: Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories by Miriam Weiner The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume Three: The Early Roman Period by Louis Finkelstein (ed.), W. D. Davies (ed.), John Sturdy (ed.)

  Scholarship Award Winner

Living Letters of the Law Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity by Jeremy Cohen Jeremy Cohen's LIVING LETTERS OF THE LAW is a careful and comprehensive study of major early and medieval Church leaders and their views of Judaism and Jews. (Winner) Finalists: The Beginnings of Jewishness Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties by Shaye J. D. Cohen Gentile Tales The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews by Miri Rubin Talmudic Stories Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein