New Jewish Book Award Winners in the Feinberg Library

Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore is the Jewish Book of the Year. It takes us from the Maccabees to the early twentieth century.

The fiction winner was Until the Dawn’s Light by celebrated Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld. It’s a story of a Jewish woman in early twentieth-century Austria.

Deborah Lipstadt’s The Eichmann Trial was a finalist in Holocaust literature; Vivian Gornick’s Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life, in biography. Rivka Miriam’s These Mountains, in the Israeli Culture collection, was a finalist in poetry. Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole was a history finalist.

Julie Chibbaro’s Deadly, about the search for the truth about Typhoid Mary, won in the children’s and young adult literature category. Kathy Kacer’s To Hope and Back: The Journey of the St. Louis was a finalist, as was Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin. You’ll find them in the Kurland young adult collection.

New Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners for Children and Teens

For teens:

• Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club (gold medal)
• Shirley Reva Vernick, The Blood Lie
• Amy Feller Dominy, OyMG

For older readers:

• Susan Goldman Rubin, Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein (gold medal)
• Trina Robbins, Lily Renee, Escape Artist
• Shelley Sommer, Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer
• Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap (the Triangle fire)
• Yona Zeldis McDonough, The Cats in the Doll Shop

For younger readers:

• Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Naamah and the Ark at Night
• Durga Yael Bernhard, Around the World in One Shabbat
• Jacqueline Jules, Picnic at Camp Shalom
• Eric A. Kimmel, Joseph and the Sabbath Fish
• Richard Michelson, Lipman Pike: America’s First Home Run King
• Barb Rosenstock, The Littlest Mountain
• Gloria Spielman, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime