THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 15, 1985
NEWS
JWB Names '85 Jewish
Book Award Nominees
New York — Nominees for the
1985 National Jewish Book
Awards have been announced by
the JWB Jewish Book Council.
Now in their 36th year, the
awards are given by the JWB to
North American authors of
Jewish books of scholarly and/or
literary excellence.
For the National Jewish Book
Award-Holocaust, the nominees
are: Lucjan Dobroszycki, editor,
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto
1941-1944, translated by Richard
Lourie, Joachim Neugroschel,
and others (Yale University
Press); Sarah Gordon, Hitler,
Germans, and the "Jewish Ques-
tion" (Princeton University
Press); David S. Wyman, The
Abandonment of the Jews:
America and the Holocaust 1941-
1945 (Pantheon).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Israel are:
Ze'ev Chafetz, Double Vision:
How the Press Distorts America's
View of the Middle East (William
Morrow); Samuel Heilman, The
Gate Behind the Wall: A Pligrim-
age to Jerusalem (Summit Books);
Joan Peters, From Time Im-
memorial: The Origins of the
Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Pales-
tine (Harper & Row).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Jewish
Thought are: Alan Mintz, Hur-
ban: Responses to Catastrophe in
Hebrew Literature (Columbia
University Press); David G. Ros-
kies, Against the Apocalypse: Re-
sponses to Catastrophe in Modern
Jewish Culture. (Harvard Uni-
versity Press); Joseph B. Sol-
oveitchik, Halachic Man, trans-
lated by Larry Kaplan (Jewish
Publication Society).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Fiction are:
Israel Agrees
To Transmitter
jJ
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel has
agreed to the Reagan Administra-
tion's request to build a powerful
Voice of America (VOA) radio
transmitter in the Jewish state to
relay broadcasts to the Soviet
Union and other Eastern block
countries, the newspaper Maariv
reported last week.
Defense Minister yitzhak
Rabin made a verbal commitment
to the Preident at their White
House meeting last month,
Maariv said. It was not put in
writing. Rabin reportedly acted
on a decision taken secretly by Is-
raeli leaders in recent weeks.
The American request raised
considerable controversy in Is-
rael. The United States wants the
transmitter in Israel to overcome
Soviet jamming of VOA broad-
casts relayed via Europe. But
many Israelis feared that to ac-
quiesce would involve Israel di-
rectly in the cold war between the
superpowers and would have a
detrimental effect on the situa-
tion of Soviet Jews, which has
seriously deteriorated during the
past year.
But President Reagan exerted
pressure, Maariv said, and Israel
was forced finally to agree.
Max Apple, Free Agents (Harper
& Row); Frederick Busch, Invisi-
ble Mending (David R. Godine);
Deirdre Levinson, Modus Vivendi
(Viking-Penguin).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Jewish His-
tory are: Naomi W. Cohen, The
German Jews in the United States,
1830-1914 (Jewish Publication
Society); Bernard Lewis, The
Jews of Islam (Princeton Univer-
sity Press); Marsha L. Rosenblitt,
The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914:
Assimilation and Identity (State
University of New York Press).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Scholarship
are: Baruch Bokser, The Origins
of the Seder: The Passover Rite
and Early Rabbinic Judaism
(University of California Press);
Louis H. Feldman, Josephus and
Modern Scholarship (1937-1980)
(Walter de Gruyter); Seymour
Feldman, translator, The Wars of
The Lord: Book One Immortality
of the Soul, by Levi Ben Gershom
(Gersonides) (Jewish Publication
Society).
Nominees for the National
Jewish book Award-Children's
Literature are: David Adler, Our
Golda: The Story opf Golda Meir,
illustrated by Donna Ruff
(Viking-Penguin); Malka
Drucker, Celebratng Life Jewish
Rites of Passage (Holiday House);
Gary Provost and Gail Levine-
Freidus, Good If it Goes (Bradbury
Press).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Visual Arts
are: Evelyn M. Cohen, The
Rothschild Mahzor: Florence,
1492
(The Library-Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America): Mark Podwal, A
Jewish Bestiary: A Book of Fabul-
ous Creatures Drawn from Heb-
raic Legend and Lore (Jewish
Publication society); Norman L.
Kleeblatt and Gerard Wertkin,
eds., The Jewish Heritage in
American Folk Art (Universe
Books).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Yiddish Lit-
erature are: Shloime Schwartz,
Harbstiker Fayer-Harvest Fire:
(I.L. Peretz Publishing); Wolf
Snyder, Literarishe Un Historishe
Eseyen-Literary and Historical
Essays (Education Department -
The Workmen's Circle); Shea
Tenenbaum, Fun Ash Un Fayer lz
Dayn Kroyn-From Ash and Fire Is
Your Crown (CYCO Publishing
House).
Nominees for the National
Jewish Book Award-Illustrated
Children's Books are: Barbara
Cohen and Beverly Brodsky, Here
Come the Purim Players! (Lot-
hrop, Lee & Shepard); Amy
Schwartz, Mrs. Moskowitz and the
Sabbath Candlesticks: (Jewish
Publication Society).
OBITUARIES
Rescuer of Jews
New York — Dr. Muriel Gar-
diner, a pyschoanalyst whose
memorials entitled, Code Name
Mary, detailed her exploits in
helping people escape from the
Nazis, died Feb. 6 at age 83.
Remember the
1 lth Commandment:
"And Thou
Shalt be
Informed"
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