The Ribalow Prize is a literary prize awarded annually by Hadassah Magazine the best work of fiction in English on a Jewish theme.
The prize, formally the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, was endowed in memory of Harold U. Ribalow, an American writer, editor, and anthologist.[1]
The inaugural prize was given in 1983 to Chaim Grade for the short story collection Rabbis and Wives. The stories, first published in Yiddish, were translated into English and published by Knopf in 1982.[2]
Year
Author
Title
Publisher
Shortlist
1983
Chaim Grade
Rabbis and Wives
Knopf
1984
Francine Prose
Hungry Hearts
Pantheon Books
1985
Max Apple
Free Agents
HarperCollins
1986
Lore Segal
Her First American
Knopf
1987
Aharon Appelfeld
To the Land of the Cattails
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1988
Anne Roiphe
Lovingkindness
Shambhala Publications
1989
Anita Desai
Baumgartner's Bombay
Knopf
1990
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Leaving Brooklyn
Houghton Mifflin
1991
Sandra Schor
The Great Letter E
North Point Press
1991
Michelle Herman
Missing
Ohio State University Press
1992
Louis Begley
Wartime Lies
Knopf
1993
Merrill Joan Gerber
The Kingdom of Brooklyn
Longstreet Press
1994
Carol de Chellis Hill
Henry James' Midnight Song
W. W. Norton & Company
1994
Michael Blumenthal
Weinstock Among the Dying
Zoland Books
1995
Magda Bogin
Natalya Gods Messenger
Charles Scribner's Sons
1996
Benjamin Taylor
Tales Out of School
Turtle Point Press
1997
Robert Cohen
The Here and Now
Charles Scribner's Sons
1998
Anne Michaels
Fugitive Pieces
McClelland & Stewart
1999
Richard Teleky
The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin
Steerforth Press
2000
Todd Gitlin
Sacrifice
Metropolitan Books
2001
Myla Goldberg
Bee Season
Bantam Books
2002
Elizabeth Rosner
The Speed of Light
Ballantine Books
2003
Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
Houghton Mifflin
2003
Aryeh Lev Stollman
The Illuminated Soul
Riverhead Books
2004
Joseph Epstein
Fabulous Small Jews
Houghton Mifflin
2005
Jenna Blum
Those Who Save Us
Houghton Mifflin
2006
Tamar Yellin
The Genizah at the House of Shepher
Toby Press
2007
Dara Horn
The World to Come
W. W. Norton & Company
2008
Nathan Englander
The Ministry of Special Cases
Knopf
2009
Peter Manseau
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter[3]
Free Press
2010
Sara Houghteling
Pictures at an Exhibition
Knopf
2011
Howard Jacobson
The Finkler Question
Bloomsbury
2012
Edith Pearlman
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Lookout Books
2013
Francesca Segal
The Innocents
Hachette Books
2014
Helene Wecker
The Golem and the Jinni
HarperCollins
2015
Molly Antopol
The UnAmericans
W. W. Norton & Company
The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer (Penguin/Random House) and The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (Back Bay Books/Little Brown)[4]
2016
Jim Shepard
The Book of Aron[5]
Knopf
2017
Rose Tremain
The Gustav Sonata
Chatto & Windus
The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb and As Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner[6]
2018
Carol Zoref
Barren Island
New Issues Poetry & Prose
2019
Michael David Lukas
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo[7]
Random House
^"Book award honors Ribalow". New York Jewish Week. 25 May 1983.
^"Chaim Grade Awarded Prize for Jewish Fiction". New York Times. 20 July 1983. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
^Ribalow Prize Winners Retrieved 28/6/22.
^"Molly Antopol Wins Hadassah Fiction Award". The Forward. JTA. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
^Hadassah Magazine Retrieved 28/6/22.
^"Rose Tremain's 'Gustav Sonata' wins Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
^Ribalow Prize Presented to Author Michael David Lukas Retrieved 28/6/22.
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