Ten prizes for the best literary works of the year published in Yiddish were awarded here this week by the Congress for Jewish Culture. The awards ranging from $100 to $500 came from special funds set up for such prizes. They include the Adolf Neumann Fund in Geneva, the Hoffer-Leib Fund in Buenos Aires, the Boris Surovitch Fund, the Fishl Bimko Fund and the Rebecca Pat Fund, all of New York.
The winner of the $500 Hoffer-Leib prize was N. B. Minkoff for his three-volume Pioneers in Jewish Poetry in America.” The other winners were L. Chen-Shimoni, novelist; Dr. Shlomo Bickl, essayist; Kohos Kliger, poet; S. Berlinsky, novelist; Chaim Erenreich, for a book of travel impressions; Abraham Zack, novelist; Rachel Korn, short story writer; A. M. Fuchs, short story writer; C. S. Kazhdan, educator. Berlinsky, Chen-Shimoni and Fuchs live in Israel, Kliger and Zack reside in Argentina.
The Congress for Jewish Culture also presented Jacob Pat with a citation for his book “The Teacher, Esther” in which he immortalized the Jewish teachers annihilated by the Nazis in Eastern Europe. The citation, presented by Z. Yefroikin, educational director of the Workmen’s Circle, stressed the literary value of Mr, Pat’s book which evoked considerable praise in Jewish cultural circles in many countries.
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