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Awards ceremony Monday, April 11, 7 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center
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KORET JEWISH BOOK AWARDS -- PROGRAM SCHEDULE
APRIL 11, 2005, 7 P.M.
KANBAR HALL, JCCSF
PROGRAM
Faith, Politics, and the Jews: An Exchange Between Hillel Halkin and
Anne Roiphe
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
Biography, Autobiography, and Literary Studies
A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz David Biale, jury chair
Translated from the Hebrew by Nicolas Emmanuel Ringelblum
de Lange (Harcourt, Inc.) Professor of Jewish History
University of California, Davis
Children's Literature
The Cats in Krasinski Square, Karen Hesse Roni Schotter, jury chair
Illustrated by Wendy Watson (Scholastic) Author, children's books
Fiction
The Persistence of Memory, Tony Eprile Daphne Merkin, judge
(W.W. Norton & Company) Novelist and essayist
History
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family
Life in Medieval Europe, Elisheva Carlebach, jury chair
Elisheva Baumgarten (Princeton Professor of History, Queens College
University Press) and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Philosophy and Thought
Wrestling with God and Men: Ellen M. Umansky, jury chair
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, Carl and Dorothy Bennett
Rabbi Steven Greenberg (University Professor of Judaic Studies,
of Wisconsin Press) Fairfield University
Translation
The Five Books of Moses, Robert Alter Steven J. Zipperstein,
(W.W. Norton & Company) advisory board chair
Daniel E. Koshland Professor of
Jewish Culture and History
Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish
Studies, Stanford University
Young Writer on Jewish Themes
Tim Bradford Alana Newhouse, jury chair
Arts & Culture Editor, Forward
CLOSING REMARKS
Tad Taube, President
Koret Foundation Funds
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