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2018 National Jewish Book Award Winners
The Jewish Book Council’s picks that celebrate Jewish history and culture.
Published on January 15, 2020
The Girl from Berlin: A Novel
Ronald H. BalsonTwo timelines — present-day Tuscany and World War II Germany — converge in this gem of a thriller, selected for the Book Club Award by the National Jewish Book Council. The Council writes on its official website, “Murder, deception, and greed are involved, but this compelling story also offers the beauty of music and love, and the possibility of redemption.”
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Omer BartovBy focusing on the atrocities that took place in one eastern European town during World War II, Omer Bartov gives a much deeper and more disturbing look at how mass genocides really occur. How do once-friendly neighbors turn into stone-cold murderers? This was designated the best Holocaust book of the year.
Holy Moly Carry Me
Erika MeitnerErika Meitner’s collection won for the best poetry book of the year. The National Jewish Book Council writes on its website that it’s “a slim volume that taps into national conversations on topics including motherhood, infertility, terrorism, Judaism, school shootings, the 2016 election, and race. The poems feel straightforward in a way that adds to their urgency.”