Four awards with prizes totalling $700 for the best works of Jewish interest in fiction, poetry and juveniles during 1956 were made today at the annual meeting of the Jewish Book Council of America, a project of the Jewish National Welfare Board.
The $250 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award went to Lion Feuchtwanger for his novel “Raquel: The Jewish of Toledo.” The Harry Kovner Memorial Awards of $100 each were presented to Jacob Glatstein for his book of Yiddish poetry, “Fun Mein Gantzer Mie,” and to Moshe Feinstein for his volume of Hebrew poetry, “Avraham Abulaffa.” The $250 Fanny and Hyman Rodman and Fanny and Abraham Bellsey Memorial Award was given to Elma Ehrlich Levinger for her cumulative contributions to Jewish juvenile literature.
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