Dorothy Rosenberg Prize Most distinguished work on the history of the Jewish diaspora published in English (American Historical Association)
2020: Tamar Herzig, A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Harvard Univ. Press, 2019).
2019: James Loeffler, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale Univ. Press, 2018).
2018: Andrew Sloin, The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power (Indiana Univ. Press, 2017).
2017: Roger Horowitz, Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Columbia Univ. Press, 2016).
2016: Paul Lerner, The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015).
Ernst Fraenkel Prize Book-length academic manuscripts on the Holocaust, its context and implications, and twentieth century and post-Holocaust genocides (Wiener Holocaust Library)
2020, Co-winners:
Andrew Kornbluth, The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland (Harvard Univ. Press, 2021).
Joanna Sliwa, Jewish Childhood in Krakow: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2021).
2019: Jeffrey Koerber (Chapman University), Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2019).
2017: Alice Weinreb (Loyola University), Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth Century Germany (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017).
Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards Outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies - 4 categories:
Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity
2020: Lynn Kaye (Brandeis University), Time in the Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
2018: Mira Balberg (University of California), Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2017).
2016: Christine Hayes (Yale University), What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (Princeton University Press, 2015).
Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual
2020: Karen B. Stern (Brooklyn College), Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2018).
2018: David Stern (Harvard University), The Jewish Bible: A Material History (University of Washington Press, 2017).
2016: Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel
2020: Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook University), Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library (Yale University Press, 2019).
2018: Daniel Kupfert Heller (Monash University), Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism (Princeton University Press, 2017).
2016: Jay R. Berkovitz (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771–1789 (Brill, 2014).
Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore
2020: David S. Koffman (York University), The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America (Rutgers University Press, 2019).
2018: Michal Kravel-Tovi (Tel Aviv University), When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel (Columbia University Press, 2017).
2016: Kimberly A. Arkin (Boston University), Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France (Stanford University Press, 2014). (Association for Jewish Studies)
National Jewish Book Awards outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest (Jewish Book Council)
American Jewish Studies
2020: Laura Arnold Leibman, The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Bard Graduate Center, 2020).
2019: Kenneth D. Wald, The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
2018: Jack Wertheimer, The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today (Princeton University Press, 2018).
2017: Shari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press, 2017).
2016: Roger Horowitz, Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Columbia Univ. Press, 2016).
Book of the Year
2020: Jonathan Sacks, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Basic Books, 2020).
2019: Pamela S. Nadell, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019).
2018: Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld, and Sam Taylor (translator), Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018).
2017: Francine Klagsbrun, Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel (Schocken, 2017).
2016: Daniel Gordis, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn (Ecco, 2016).
Education and Jewish Identity
2020: Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan B. Krasner, and Sharon Avni, Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps (Rutgers University Press, 2020).
2019: Deborah E. Lipstadt, Antisemitism: Here and Now (Schocken, 2019).
2018: Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, The Talmud - A Biography: Banned, Censored and Burned, The Book They Couldn’t Suppress (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2014).
2017: Steven Weitzman, The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (Princeton University Press, 2017).
2016: Mike Uram, Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations (Jewish Lights, 2016).
History
2020: Laura Arnold Leibman, The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Bard Graduate Center, 2020).
2019: Daniel Okrent, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America (Scribner, 2019).
2018: Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations (Random House, 2018).
2017: Yair Mintzker, The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew (Princeton University Press, 2017).
2016: Uri Bar-Joseph, The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel (HarperCollins, 2016).
Holocaust
2020: Faris Cassell, The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help (Regnery History, 2020).
2019: Michael Dobbs, The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between (Knopf, 2019).
2018: Omer Bartov, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (Simon & Schuster, 2018).
2017: David E. Fishman, The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (ForeEdge, 2018).
2016: Michael Bazyler, Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Modern Jewish Thought and Identity
2020: Jonathan Sacks, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Basic Books, 2020).
2019: Elissa Bemporad, Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (Oxford University Press, 2019).
2018: Alan L. Mittleman, Does Judaism Condone Violence? Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition (Princeton University Press, 2018).
2017: Gideon Reuveni, Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
2016: Miriam Udel, Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
Scholarship
2020: Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2020).
2019: Eric Lawee, Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic (Oxford University Press, 2019).
2018: Marcin Wodziński, Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton University Press, 2018).
2017: Dov Weiss, Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
2016: Benjamin R. Gampel, Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response 1391 – 1392 (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Sephardic Culture
2020: Devi Mays, Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2020).
2019: Joshua Cole, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2019).
2018: Jonathan Decter, Dominion Built of Praise: Panegyric and Legitimacy Among Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
2017: Jessica M. Marglin, Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016).
2016: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Extraterritorial Dreams: Europe Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Women's Studies
2020: Laura Arnold Leibman, The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Bard Graduate Center, 2020).
2019: Naomi Seidman, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Liverpool University Press, 2019).
2018: Alice Shalvi, Never a Native (Halban Publishers, 2019).
2017: Eve Krakowski, Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture (Princeton University Press, 2017).
2016: Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr, Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds., The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate (CCAR Press, 2016).
Saul Viener Prize books that focus on the history of the Jews in America (American Jewish Historical Society)
2019: Kirsten Fermaglich, A Rosenberg By Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (NYU Press, 2018).
2017: Noam Pianko, Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation (Rutgers University Press, 2015).
Edward Lewis Wallant Award Jewish writer, preferably unrecognized, whose published creative work of fiction is deemed to have significance for the American Jew (Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies)
Jewish Fiction Award works of fiction with significant Jewish thematic content written in English by a single author (Association of Jewish Libraries)
National Jewish Book Award - Fiction outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest (Jewish Book Council)
2020: Colum McCann, Apeirogon (Random House, 2020: ).