Koret Jewish Book Awards
Previous Winners
2004-2005
Fiction
The Persistence of Memory by Tony Eprile
W.W. Norton & Company
Biography, Autobiography, Literary Studies
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Harcourt
Philosophy & Thought
Wrestling with God and Men:
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
by Rabbi Steven Greenberg
University of Wisconsin Press
History
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
by Elisheva Baumgarten
Princeton University Press
Children’s Literature
The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
illustrated by Wendy Watson
Scholastic
Special Award for Translation
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
by Robert Alter
W.W. Norton & Co.
2003-2004
Fiction (tie)
A Love Made Out of Nothing and Zohara’s Journey
by Barbara Honigmann
David R. Godine
Foiglman by Aharon Megged
The Toby Press
Biography, Autobiography and Literary Studies
Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative
by Benjamin Harshav
Stanford University Press
Philosophy and Thought
The Zohar, Pritzker Edition, Volumes I and II by Daniel Matt
Stanford University Press
History
The Jewish Enlightenment by Shmuel Feiner
University of Pennsylvania Press
2002-2003
Fiction
Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories:
True Tales from the Holocaust and Life After
by Henryk Greenberg
Penguin Books
Biography, Autobiography and Literary Studies
Reading the Women of the Bible:
A New Interpretation of Their Stories
by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Schocken Books
Philosophy and Thought
Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation
by Moshe Idel
Yale University Press
History
Beyond the Pale:
The Jewish Encounter With Late Imperial Russia
by Benjamin Nathans
University of California Press
2001-2002
Fiction
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
translated with notes by Peter Constantine, Nathalie Babel (ed.)
W.W. Norton & Company
Biography, Autobiography and Literary Studies
How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories
by Dorothy Gallagher
Random House
Philosophy and Thought
When A Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son
by Samuel C. Heilman
University of California Press
History
New York Jews and The Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970
by Eli Lederhendler
Syracuse University Press
2000-2001
Fiction
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin Company
Biography and Autobiography
Quarrel & Quandary: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
Alfred A. Knopf
Philosophy and Thought
Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides
by Kenneth Seeskin
Oxford University Press
History
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key:
Anglo-Jewry’s Construction of Modern Jewish Thought
by David B. Ruderman
Princeton University Press
1999-2000
Fiction
A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A. B. Yehoshua
Doubleday; Harcourt/A Harvest Book
Biography and Autobiography
Spinoza: A Life by Steven Nadler
Cambridge University Press
Philosophy and Thought
Along the Edge of Annihilation:
The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary
by David Patterson
University of Washington Press
History
Voices of the Matriarchs:
Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women
by Chava Weissler
Beacon Press
1998-1999
Fiction
Katschen &The Book of Joseph by Yoel Hoffman
New Directions
History
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation:
Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
by Miriam Bodian
Indiana University Press
Philosophy and Thought
Rethinking Modern Judaism:
Ritual, Commandment, Community by Arnold M. Eisen
University of Chicago Press