Winners have been announced for the 74th National Jewish Book Awards and include:
10/7: 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron (St. Martin's), which won the Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year Award.
Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari (Random House) won the JJ Greenberg Memorial Award in Fiction.
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival by Daniel Khalastchi (University of Wisconsin Press) won Berru Award for Poetry in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash.
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader Press/S&S) won the Debut Fiction Goldberg Prize.
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby (Simon Element) won the Education and Jewish identity Award in Memory of Dorothy Kripke.
In addition, Aaron Lansky, founder of the Yiddish Book Center, won the Mentorship Award in Honor of Carolyn Starman Hessel.
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg won a Lifetime Achievement Award on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism (The Jewish Publication Society/University of Nebraska Press).
Other winners and finalists in several categories can be seen here. The winners will be honored on March 12 in New York City.