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Jewish Book Awards Announced

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he following titles have been
named winners of the 1999
National Jewish Book Awards. The
winners were chosen from more than
400 titles and announced recently by
the Jewish Book Council. "We are the
people of the book and we honor
that," said the council's director,
Carolyn Starman Hessel. Awards were
presented March 23 in New York at
the 50th annual Book Council Awards
ceremony; at which Herman Wouk
was honored for his literary achieve-
ment.

Scholarship: Living Letters of the Law:
Ideas of the Jew in'7Vfedieval Christianity
by Jeremy Cohen (University of
California Press)
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Culture:
A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and
Recipes ofSpains Secret Jews by David
Gitlitz and Linda Davidson (St.
Martin's Press)
Sephardic Studies: Heretics or
Daughters o fIsrael?: The Crypto-Jewish
Women of Cacti Ile by Renee I.,evine
Melarnmal (Oxford University Press)
'omens Studies: Heretics or Daughters
of Israel?: The Cgpto-Jewish Wamen of
Castilk by Renee Levine Melammed
(Oxford University Press)
Yiddish Language and Culture: Poyin
by Marek Web (Henry
Holt/Metropolitan Books)

Fiction: The Wedding Jester by Steve
Stern (Graywolf Press)
Nonfiction: YOsl Rakover Talks to God
by Zvi Kolitz (Pantheon Books)
Children's literature: With All My
Heart, Mth All ,,Vly Mind
edited by Sandy Asher
NQ SL RAKOVER
(Simon and Schuster)
TALKS to GOD
Autobiography/Memoir:
King David:s Karp edited
by Steven Sadow
niversity of New Mexico
Press)
Children's Picture Book
Joseph Had A Little Overro
by Simms Taback (Penguili,
Putnam Inc.)
Eastern European Studies: Polin edit-
wir
ed by Israel Bartal and. Antony
tag).
and P
Polonsky (Littman Library of Jewish
Frandse&bisa
Civilization)
cooperation with the National
Education: Transmission and
Foundation
for Jewish Culture in New
Tramfirmation: _11 Jewish Perspective on
York
,
presents
awards of $10,000 to
Moral Education by Carol K. Ingall
each
Koret
Jewish
Book Award winner.
(Me_iton/JTS)
Recipients of the second annual Koret
History: Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the Book Awards will be honored this
Neu) Culture 1890-1918 edited by
month at a reception, Where author
Emily D. Bilski (University of
Max Apple and social critic Morris
California)
Dickstein will speak. Winners include:
Holocaust: Reading the Holocaust by
Fiction: A Journty to the End of the
Inga Clendinrien (Cambridge
Millennium by A. B. Yehoshua, trans-
University Press)
lated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de
Israel/Zionism: The Multiple Identitia
Lange (Doubleday)
of the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
History: Voices ofAiatriarchs•
(Schocken Books)
Listening to the Prayers of Early
Jewish-Christian Relations: Jesus of
Modern Jewish Woinen by Chava
1Vazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish
Weissler (Beacon Press)
Life and the Emergence of Christianity
Biograplty/Autobigraphy: Spinoza.. A
by Paula Fredriksen (Alfred A. Knopf)
Lifi. by Steven Nadler (Cambridge
Jewish Thought: The Religious
University Press)
Thought fHasidim by Norman
Philospophy- and Thought Along the
rri (KTAV Publishing House)
Edge o f Annihilation: The Collapse and
Reference: The Hebrew .Folktale:
Recoveg 0,1,0' in the Holocaust Dia7
History, Genre, Meaning by Eli Yassif
by David Patterson (University of
UniversitY ofIndiana
Washington Press)
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