2015 National Jewish Book Award

Awards List

Children's Literature

Oskar and the Eight Blessings
(Winner)
Tanya Simon; Simon Richard

Farmer Kobi's Hanukkah Match
(Finalist)
Multiple Authors

Adam and Thomas
(Finalist)
Aharon Appelfeld

The Safest Lie
(Finalist)
Angela Cerrito

Debut Fiction

The Boatmaker
(Winner)
John Benditt

The Empire of the Senses
(Finalist)
Alexis Landau

After Abel and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Michal Lemberger

Fiction

The Last Flight of Poxl West
(Winner)
Daniel Torday

The Nightingale
(Finalist)
Kristin Hannah

A Reunion of Ghosts
(Finalist)
Judith Claire Mitchell

The Book of Aron
(Finalist)
Jim Shepard

The Ambassador
(Finalist)
Yehuda Avner; Matt Rees

Young Adult

The Hired Girl
(Winner)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Audacity
(Finalist)
Melanie Crowder

Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke
(Finalist)
Anne Blankman

Award Categories

Anthologies

Anthology/Collection

Children's Illustrated

Children's Literature

Children's Picture

Children/Young Adult

Debut Fiction

Education/Identity

Fiction

First-Time Author

Jewish Family Literature

Jewish Thought

Scholarship

Sephardic Culture

Sephardic Studies

Women's Studies

Yiddish

Young Adult

Award Years

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

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1996