The Koret Jewish Book Award is an annual award that recognizes "recently published books on any aspect of Jewish life in the categories of biography/autobiography and literary studies, fiction, history and philosophy/thought published in, or translated into, English." The award was established in 1998 by the Koret Foundation, in cooperation with the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, to increase awareness of the best new Jewish books and their authors.[1]
Professor Samuel Zipperstein of Stanford University oversaw the awards from their creation until 2005,[2] when the Koret Foundation decided to increase public interest in the awards by honoring books that were less academic and more accessible to readers. Jewish Family & Life!, a non-profit organization, was selected to manage the awards. Its CEO, Rabbi Yosef Abramowitz, stated that he hoped to transform the awards into something akin to Oprah's Book Club.[3] The History category and the Biography, Autobiography or Literary Study category were eliminated and replaced with a new category, Jewish Life & Living.
The Koret Jewish Book Award is one of the highest honors for authors of works on Jewish subjects.[4]
^Koret Jewish Book Award, National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Accessed February 19, 2008.
^"Anatomy of a Jewish Literary Prize". The Forward. October 28, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
^Siegel, Jennifer (3 March 2006). "Prestigious Book Prize Seeks More Popular Profile". The Forward. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
^Rappaport, Scott. "Jewish studies to host lecture by winner of 2005 Koret history book prize", UC Santa Cruz Currents, April 4, 2005. Accessed February 19, 2008. "The Koret Jewish Book Award is considered to be one of the highest honors for authors writing prose on Jewish themes."
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