Jewish book awards
Those of you, who came to services Friday night, had a chance to meet with Nathan Roller, my friend and roommate from college, who eventually became my best man. Amongst his many ventures he has been the librarian at the Santa Barbara Hillel. In the course of his work he noticed that there wasn’t a single source where one can find the list of winners of various Judaica book awards. Filling in this gap he created the list of lists and compiled the winning books, going back as far as he could. If you visit his Amazon page you will find the winners for the
- Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction
- Sophie Brody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature
- Harold U. Ribalow Prize
- Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
- Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction
- National Jewish Book Award Finalists for the last two years
This post is not just an unsolicited plug for his work and page, but also a suggestion to check those lists to find good Judaica books. If the library doesn’t have an item already you are interested in, ask for it and we might be able to purchase it.
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