The word is out: Hebrew College-affiliated authors won big at the 54th annual National Jewish Book Awards, held December 1 at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
Leading the pack was Brandeis University Professor Jonathan Sarna
P'70, BHL'74, who received the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award for
American Judaism (Yale University Press, 2004). The publication this comprehensive history coincided with the 350th anniversary of the American Jewish community.
Top honors in the Scholarship category went to longtime Me'ah Bible studies teacher and Brandeis University professor Marc Brettler and Adele Berlin, who co-edited
The Jewish Study Bible (Oxford University Press, 2003). Inspired in part by Brettler's experience teaching Me'ah, the book presents accessible commentary by biblical scholars. Michael Fishbane,
P'60, BJEd'64, University of Chicago Nathan Cummings Professor, editor.
The winning book in the Modern Jewish Thought and Experience category, Daniel C. Matt's
The Zohar: Pritzker edition, Vol. 1 (Stanford University Press, 2003), includes an introduction penned by Dr. Arthur Green, dean of the Rabbinical School. Other Hebrew College-affiliated finalists were Ehud Luz, visiting professor of Jewish thought, for
Wrestling With an Angel: Power, Morality, and Jewish Identity (Yale University Press, 2003), and fiction writer Joan Leegant, instructor in the Jewish Women's Studies Initiative of the Adult Learning Collaborative of Hebrew College and CJP, for
An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003).
back to top
