Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and the winners of the 74th National Jewish Book Awards as we cel­e­brate their accomplishments! 

The cel­e­bra­tion will fea­ture remarks from a selec­tion of the 74th win­ners in addi­tion to spe­cial guests of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. Each tick­et sup­ports Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s efforts to enrich, edu­cate, and strength­en the com­mu­ni­ty through lit­er­a­ture. 

For questions, or to pay by check please email us at NJBA@jewishbooks.org

To include an ad in the digital program book, please email Evie at evie@jewishbooks.org. They are $250.

We can’t wait to see you there! This cel­e­bra­tion will include a dinner with an awards pre­sen­ta­tion and dessert reception.

The win­ners of the 74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards will be hon­ored on Wednes­day, March 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM ET at an in-per­­son cer­e­mo­ny in Man­hat­tan. The host of the 74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards will be author Dani Shapiro, the author of eleven books, includ­ing two Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award winners, Signal Fires and Inheritance.

74th National Jewish Book Award Winners:

• Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Jew­ish Book of the Year Award: 10/7: 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron (St. Martin's Publishing Group)

• Lifetime Achievement Award The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism by Rabbi Irving Greenberg (University of Nebraska Press)

• Men­tor­ship Award In Hon­or of Car­olyn Star­man Hes­sel: Aaron Lansky

• Amer­i­can Jew­ish Stud­ies Cel­e­brate 350 Award: A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews by Shaul Kelner (NYU Press)

• Auto­bi­og­ra­phy & Mem­oir The Krauss Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Simon & Shu­lamith (Sofi) Gold­berg: The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands by Amir Tibon (Little, Brown & Company)

• Biog­ra­phy Award in Mem­o­ry of Sara Beren­son Stone: Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Christophe Lebold (ECW Press)

• Book Club The Miller Fam­i­ly Award in Mem­o­ry of Helen Dunn Wein­stein and June Keit Miller: The Last Dekrepitzer Howard Langer (Cresheim Press)

• Children’s Pic­ture Book Tracy and Larry Brown Family Award: Sharing Shalom by Danielle Sharkan, Selina Alko, trans. (Holiday House)

• Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life & Prac­tice Myra H. Kraft Memo­r­i­al Award: The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud by Gila Fine (Koren Publishers Jerusalem)

• Debut Fic­tion Gold­berg Prize: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster)

• Edu­ca­tion & Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Award in Mem­o­ry of Dorothy Krip­ke: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby (Simon & Schuster / Simon Element)

• Fic­tion JJ Green­berg Memo­r­i­al Award: Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari (Random House)

• Food Writ­ing & Cook­books Jane and Stu­art Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award: Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig by Jordan D. Rosenblum (NYU Press)

• Hebrew Fiction in Translation Jane Weitzman Award: The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad; Jessica Cohen, trans. (New Vessel Press)

• His­to­ry Ger­rard and Ella Berman Memo­r­i­al Award: Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy by Jonathan Marc Gribetz (Princeton University Press)

• Holo­caust Award in Mem­o­ry of Ernest W. Michel: Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish by Hannah Pollin-Galay (University of Pennsylvania Press)

• Holocaust Memoir Award in Memory of Dr. Charles and Ethel Weitzman: Warsaw Testament by Rokhl Auerbach; Samuel Kassow, trans. (White Goat Press)

• Mid­dle Grade Lit­er­a­ture Award: Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by Joshua S. Levy (HarperCollins)

• Mod­ern Jew­ish Thought & Expe­ri­ence Dorot Foun­da­tion Award in Mem­o­ry of Joy Unger­lei­der: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua Leifer (Penguin Random House - Dutton)

• Poet­ry Berru Award in Mem­o­ry of Ruth and Bernie Wein­flash: The Story of Your Obstinate Survival by Daniel Khalastchi (University of Wisconsin Press)

• Schol­ar­ship Nahum M. Sar­na Memo­r­i­al Award: Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity by Simcha Gross (Cambridge University Press)

• Sephardic Cul­ture Mimi S. Frank Award in Mem­o­ry of Becky Levy: Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community by Aviad Moreno (Indiana University Press)

• Visual Arts: 101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel by Raquel Ukeles, Hezi Amiur, Yoel Finkelman, Stefan Litt, and Samuel Thrope (Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers)

• Women’s Stud­ies Bar­bara Dobkin Award: Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel by Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks (Brandeis University Press)

• Writ­ing Based on Archival Mate­r­i­al The JDC-Her­bert Katz­ki Award: The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule by Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Stanford University Press)

• Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture Award: Night Owls by A. R. Vishny (HarperCollins)