Koret Jewish Book Awards Move to San Francisco.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- For the first time since its inception seven years ago, the Koret Jewish Book Awards ceremony will be held in San Francisco this year as the centerpiece of a literary arts "mosaic" scheduled April 9 to 12 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF JCCSF Jewish Community Center of San Francisco ). Awarding $10,000 prizes in fiction, biography, philosophy, history, and -- for the first time this year -- children's literature children's literature, writing whose primary audience is children. See also children's book illustration. The Beginnings of Children's Literature The earliest of what came to be regarded as children's literature was first meant for adults. , the annual program has been held in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of until now in order to build its reputation among publishers, agents, publicists and writers largely based on the East Coast. Now established as one of the country's most prestigious award programs for Jewish writing, the Koret Foundation is bringing the stellar winners' rosters -- which in past years have included Philip Roth Noun 1. Philip Roth - United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933) Philip Milton Roth, Roth , Cynthia Ozick <noinclude></noinclude> Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson. She earned her B.A. , Daniel Matt, and A.B. Yehoshua, among others -- to San Francisco, where they will make public appearances in addition to speaking at the invitation-only awards ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. on April 11 at JCCSF's Kanbar Theater. "Our goal is to share the talents of these winning writers with our own Bay Area community, and to encourage our Jewish community to engage with the best of Jewish books produced in the last year," said book awards director Prof. Steven J. Zipperstein, director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies Jewish studies also known as Judaic studies is a subject area of study available at many colleges and universities in North America. Traditionally, Jewish studies was part of the natural practice of Judaism by Jews. at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . The awards ceremony will also include a program -- "Faith, Politics, and the Jews: An Exchange Between Hillel Halkin and Anne Roiphe" -- presenting two leading intellectuals on one of the most contentious and perplexing per·plex tr.v. per·plexed, per·plex·ing, per·plex·es 1. To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt. See Synonyms at puzzle. 2. To make confusedly intricate; complicate. issues in contemporary culture. Halkin, an Israeli, is a distinguished translator and a frequent contributor to "Commentary" and "The New Republic." He is the author of "Letters to an American Jewish Friend," and "Across the Sabbath River." Roiphe, a well-known American novelist, wrote "Secrets of the City" and the widely discussed, fictional exploration of American Jewish Orthodoxy, "Lovingkindness." Book award categories and finalists are: Biography, Autobiography, and Literary Studies "Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Rhapsode rhap·so·dist n. 1. One who uses extravagantly enthusiastic or impassioned language. 2. also rhap·sode One who recited epic and other poetry, especially professionally, in ancient Greece. " by Robert S. Kawashima (Indiana University Press Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is a publishing house at Indiana University that engages in academic publishing, specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It was founded in 1950. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. ) "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz, translated from the Hebrew by Nicolas de Lange (Harcourt, Inc.) "Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning" by Michael Stanislawski (University of Washington Press) "Nine Suitcases" by Bela Zsolt, translated from the Hungarian by Ladislaus Lob (Schocken Books) Children's Literature "Cats in Krasinski Square" by Karen Hesse, illustrated by Wendy Watson (Scholastic Books) "Daniel in the Lions' Den" by Jean Marzollo (Little, Brown) "Baby Babka bab·ka n. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins. [Polish, diminutive of baba, old woman.] Noun 1. , the Gorgeous Genius" by Jane Breskin Zalben, illustrated by Victoria Chess (Clarion Books) Fiction "The Persistence of Memory" by Tony Eprile (W. W. Norton & Company) "Heir to the Glimmering World" by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin Company) "The First Desire" by Nancy Reisman, (Pantheon Books) "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin Company) History "Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe" by Elisheva Baumgarten (Princeton University Press) "A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain" by Mark D. Meyerson (Princeton University Press) "American Judaism" by Jonathan D. Sarna (Yale University Press) "Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires" by Sarah Abrevaya Stein (Indiana University Press) Philosophy and Thought "Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works" by Herbert A. Davidson (Oxford University Press) "Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition" by Rabbi Steven Greenberg, (University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (or UW Press), founded in 1936, is a university press that is part of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. It published under its own name and the imprint The Popular Press. ) "The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought" by Aaron W. Hughes (Indiana University Press) A special award for translation and commentary will be presented to Robert Alter for his book, "The Five Books of Moses," published by W.W. Norton & Company. Koret also presents an award to a Young Writer (under 40) on Jewish Themes, which includes a $25,000 cash prize and a three-month residency at Stanford University, to write, teach, and conduct research. Finalists for this prize are Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Tim Bradford, Melanie Challenger, Joshua Cohen, Nan Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , Lou Cove, Joshua Fagan, Aliza Fogelson, Victoria Haggblom-Arrias, and Adam Langer. JCCSF's Literary Arts Mosaic includes an intimate evening Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m. with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket Snicket can refer to:
On Sunday, April 10, JCCSF presents selected Koret Jewish Book Award winners in fields that include biography, fiction, philosophy, history, and children's literature, as well as an emerging young writer on Jewish themes. A brunch-and-learn study session and a special opportunity for young children and their parents are featured events in this day-long inaugural literary arts mosaic. Both of these events are free and open to the public, though tickets are required. On Tuesday, April 12, Koret Jewish Book Award winners will visit university Jewish Studies programs, Jewish day schools, Jewish Community Centers, and other venues to be determined. Since its inception in 1979, the Koret Foundation has awarded more than $282 million in grants focused on a range of areas including education reform and youth development, community and cultural development, and policy analysis that responds to socioeconomic challenges. In addition, Koret has launched a series of initiatives that are revitalizing and strengthening the Bay Area's educational, policymaking pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: , and cultural institutions, as well as the economy in Israel. Over its first quarter-century, Koret's funding philosophy has evolved from traditional grantmaking to innovative, entrepreneurial approaches to fundamental contemporary issues. Underlying the philosophy of the Koret Foundation has been the vision of founder Joseph Koret, whose unyielding commitment to democracy's freedoms enabled him to achieve the American dream. For more information, please visit the Koret Foundation website at www.koretfoundation.org. For information about the book awards ceremony, please e-mail your name and address to kjba@koretfoundation.org. For information on the JCCSF Literary Arts Mosaic, please visit www.jccsf.org or call (415) 292-1219. For complimentary tickets to the Saturday evening event, please contact the JCCSF box office at 415.292.1233. |
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