MEDIA ADVISORY: PRESS CREDENTIALS AVAILABLE FOR KORET JEWISH BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY

(Editors note: Credentialing information only. Not for publication)

(San Francisco, March 23, 2005) — Press credentials are now available for the Koret Jewish Book Awards ceremony Monday, April 11, 7 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, featuring a presentation by two leading intellectuals on one of the most contentious and perplexing issues in contemporary culture: Faith, Politics, and the Jews: An Exchange Between Hillel Halkin and Anne Roiphe.

Presentation of the awards will follow the program, with presenters and recipients offering brief remarks.

Halkin, an Israeli, is a distinguished translator and a frequent contributor to Commentary and The New Republic. He is the author of Letters to an American Jewish Friend, and Across the Sabbath River. Roiphe, a well-known American novelist, wrote Secrets of the City and the widely discussed, fictional exploration of American Jewish Orthodoxy, Lovingkindness.

For credentials, please contact Susan Wolfe, Director of Communications at Koret Foundation Funds, (415) 882-7740.

KORET JEWISH BOOK AWARDS -PROGRAM SCHEDULE APRIL 11, 2005, 7 P.M. KANBAR HALL, JCCSF

PROGRAM
Faith, Politics, and the Jews: An Exchange Between Hillel Halkin and Anne Roiphe

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
Biography, Autobiography, and Literary Studies
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
Translated from the Hebrew by Nicolas de Lange (Harcourt, Inc.)
David Biale, jury chair
Emmanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Davis

Children's Literature
The Cats in Krasinski Square, Karen Hesse
Illustrated by Wendy Watson (Scholastic)
Roni Schotter, jury chair
Author, children's books

Fiction
The Persistence of Memory, Tony Eprile
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Daphne Merkin, judge
Novelist and essayist

History
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe, Elisheva Baumgarten
(Princeton University Press)
Elisheva Carlebach, jury chair
Professor of History, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Philosophy and Thought
Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, Rabbi Steven Greenberg
(University of Wisconsin Press)
Ellen M. Umansky, jury chair
Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies, Fairfield University

Translation and Commentary
The Five Books of Moses, Robert Alter
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Steven J. Zipperstein, advisory board chair
Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University

Young Writer on Jewish Themes
Tim Bradford
Alana Newhouse, jury chair
Arts & Culture Editor, Forward

CLOSING REMARKS
Tad Taube, President
Koret Foundation Funds