The Louis LaMed Foundation announced today the winners of its 17th annual award for the best Yiddish and Hebrew works produced in 1956 in countries in North and South America.
The winners in Yiddish were Jacob Glatstein for his book of collected poems, “All My Toil,” and Isaac Bashevis-Singer for his book of memoirs, “My Father’s Courthouse.” The Hebrew winners were Dr. Shimon Bernstein, for an anthology of medieval Hebrew poetry, “By the Rivers of Spain,” and Dr. Meyer Waxman, for his “In the Paths of Hebrew Literature and Essays.” Each honor carries a cash award of $500.
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