Winners announced for 2012 National Jewish Book Awards
Published January 16, 2013
The Jewish Book Council released the winners of the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards. Some of the highlights include:
Lifetime Achievement Award – Nobel Prize winning neuropsychiatrist Eric R. Kandel, author of “In Search of Memory”
The Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award – “City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden,” edited by Deborah Dash Moore
National Jewish Book Award in fiction – “The Innocents” by Francesca Segal
Modern Jewish Thought and Experience award for nonfiction – Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, for “Koren Talmud Bavli”
For a full list of winners and details on the award reception on March 14 in New York, click here.