A San Francisco-based Jewish foundation announced Monday its first annual Jewish Book Awards. Winners of the Koret Foundation’s $10,000 prizes were Yoel Hoffmann, for “Katschen and the Book of Joseph,” and Brian Morton for “Starting Out in the Evening,” both for fiction; Miriam Bodian, “Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam,” for history; and Arnold Eisen, “Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community,” in the thought and philosophy category. The awards are being presented in cooperation with the New York-based National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
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