![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman’s “FDR and the Jews” won the American Jewish Studies Celebrate 350 Award. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship for “Maimonides: Life and Thought.” The award for fiction went to Israeli writer Amos Oz for “Between Friends.” Hebrew University professor Moshe Halbertal won the Nahum M. 15, included a notable number of foreign winners. Shavit, a journalist for Israel’s daily Haaretz, won in the history category for “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel,” a book of reflections on Israel’s complicated history.Īwarded annually by the Jewish Book Council, this year’s crop, announced Jan. ![]() ![]() Sacks, the former British chief rabbi, won in the category of modern Jewish thought and experience for The Koren Pesach Machzor. Halevi, a longtime Israeli journalist, took the top prize, the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award, for “Like Dreamers,” which tells the history of Israel through the personal experiences over decades of a handful of paratroopers who helped capture the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Authors Yossi Klein Halevi, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Ari Shavit were among the winners of the 2013 National Jewish Book Awards. ![]()
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