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Jewish Book Awards

women in Jewish law, prayer, sexuality
and marriage, by Rachel Adler.
• Sephardic Studies: The Geonim of
Babylonia, an analysis of the critical
role of Middle Eastern Jewry in forging
rabbinic civilization, by Robert Brody.
• Sephardic and Ashkenazic
Culture: A Time to Be Born: Customs
and Folklore of Jewish Birth, by
Michele Klein.

Literary journeys took center stage
at the Jewish Book Council's 49th
annual National Jewish Book Awards.
The awards are given each year to
authors of Jewish books published in
the United States and Canada.
Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish, a chroni-
cle of his year of mourning for his late
father that explores the origins and
meaning of the Kaddish prayer, won
the Council's award for nonfiction.
The fiction award went to The
Iron Tracks by Aharon Appelfeld, an
Israeli author who weaves his vision
of Jewish assimilation through the
tale of a Holocaust survivor search-
ing along the railroads of Europe for
his father's killer.
In Jacob, Mehanem & Mimoun, the
winner for autobiography/memoir,
Marcel Benabou returns from Paris to
his birthplace in Morocco to find that
the world of his childhood has disap- -
peared.
Philip Roth, who was unable to
attend the March 11 ceremony in
New York due to illness, was hon-
ored for distinguished literary
achievement. Special awards were
presented to Blu Greenberg
(women's studies), Yosef Abramowitz
(children's literature), Mark Mirsky
(fiction) and Francine Klagsbrun
Literary Achievement Award Winner
(nonfiction).
Philip Roth: No complaints.
Following are more of this year's
winners and their categories:
• Women's Studies: Jewish Women
• Education: First Fruit: A Whizin
in America, 800 biographies and topi-
Anthology of Jewish Family Education,
cal essays compiled by editors Paula
edited by Adrienne Bank and Ron
Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore.
Wolfson.
• Jewish-Christian Relations:
• Jewish Scholarship: Entering the
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, a
High Holy Days: A Complete Guide to
study of the work and influence of the
History, Prayers and Themes, by Reuven
19-century Jewish scholar, by
•
Hammer.
Susannah Heschel.
• Israel: Israel's Place in the Middle
• Holocaust: Between Dignity and
East, by Nissim Rejwan.
Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany,
• History: Hebrews of the Portuguese:
an illustration of the Holocaust's
Conversos and Community in Early
beginnings as seen by women who
Modern Amsterdam, by Miriam
experienced its humiliations, by
Bodian.
Marion Kaplan.
— Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Children's Literature: Heeding the
Call, a look at Jewish activists' contri-
bution to the fight for civil rights, by
Norman Finkelstein.
Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld
• Children's Picture Book: You
had
only finished first grade when he
Never Know, a lesson in how to treat .
deported from his home in
was
others, by Francine Prose and illustrat-
Czernowicz,
to a concentration camp
ed by Mark Podwal.
where,
at
age
8, he witnessed the mur-
an
Engendering
Judaism,
Thought:
•
der
of
his
mother.
He escaped from
examination of the effects of including

Stranger Than Fiction