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Jewish Book Awards
The Koret Foundation Awards are given annually to the most outstanding books on aspects of Jewish life in four categories:
Awards Winners
Fiction | History | Biography/ Autobiography and Literary Studies | Philosophy and Thought
The Koret Jewish Book Awards are sponsored by the San Francisco based Koret Foundation in cooperation with the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. The Korets were established in 1998 and first awarded in 1999.
Award finalists are announced in February, and the Award winner in late March. Winners are honored at a ceremony in April each year. Winners in each category receive $15,000.
2002 Special Award for Literature: W. G. Sebald "In recognition of the elegance, the patient humanity, the probing quality of his work and, in particular, Austerlitz" | Hardcover | Paperback | e-book Microsoft | e-book Adobe
Koret Jewish Book Awards: Fiction
2002 The Complete Works of Isaac Babel | Hardcover
2001
Philip Roth for The Human Stain
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Roth also won the 2001
PEN/Faulkner, his second. 1998
Pulitzer Prize winner for American Pastoral
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He won the PEN/Faulkner in 1994 for Operation
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Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award 1960
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2000 A Journey to the End of the Millennium, A Novel of the Middle Ages by Andre Bernard, author; translated by A. B. Yehoshua | Paperback
1999 Inaugural Award: Katschen & the Book of Joseph by Yoel Hoffmann | Hardcover | Paperback and Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton | Paperback
Koret Jewish Book Awards: History
2002 Eli Lederhendler for his work, New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity | Hardcover
2001 Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought by David B. Ruderman | Hardcover
2000 Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women by Chava Weissler | Paperback
1999 Inaugural Award: Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam by Miriam Bodian | Paperback
Koret Jewish Book Awards: Biography/Autobiography
2002 How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories by Dorothy Gallagher | Hardcover | Paperback
2001 Quarrel & Quandary: Essays by Cynthia Ozick | Hardcover
2000 Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind by Steven Nadler | Hardcover
1999 Inaugural Year of the Koret No Award Given
Koret Jewish Book Awards: Philosophy and Thought
2002 When a Jew Dies: the Ethnography of a Bereaved Son by Samuel C. Heilman | Hardcover
2001 Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides by Kenneth Seeskin | Hardcover
2000 Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary by David Patterson | Hardcover | Paperback
1999 Inaugural Award: Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community by Arnold Eisen | Hardcover | Paperback
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