(Jewish Group) Book tracing the history of Jewish women wins top National Jewish Book Awards honors
A book tracing the history of Jewish women in America won the Jewish Book Council’s top national award.
“America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today,” by Pamela Nadell, was recognized with the Jewish Book of the Year Award Everett Family Foundation Award. Her book breaks down the path of American Jewish women from colonial “Jewesses” to 19th-century domestic mothers, turn-of-the-century immigrants, mid-20th century semi-assimilationists and to today.
The council announced the winners of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, the 69th edition, on Wednesday.
Robert Alter received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long project “The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary.”
Two books on anti-Semitism received top honors. Deborah Lipstadt’s “Anti-Semitism: Here and Now” was recognized with the Jewish Education and Identity Award in Memory of Dorothy Kripke, and Bari Weiss’ “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” was named in the Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice in Memory of Myra H. Kraft category.
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I have read both Lipstadt's and Weiss' books.
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