Four awards carrying cash prizes totalling $700 for 1955’s best works of Jewish interest in the fiction, poetry and juvenile fields were made at the annual meeting of the National Jewish Welfare Board-sponsored Jewish Book Council of America today. The Council also presented a certificate of honor to Louis M. Rabinowitz, prominent philanthropist, “in recognition of his generous and discriminating devotion to Jewish literature.”
The $250 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award went to Miss Jo Sinclair. Novelty, Ohio, for her novel “The Changelings.” This award, presented by Joseph Daroff, of Philadelphia, in behalf of himself and his brother, Samuel A. Daroff, was given for the best work of fiction of Jewish interest written and published in the U.S. in 1955. The $250 award for her cumulative contribution to Jewish juvenile literature was given to Mrs. Sadie Rose Weilerstein. Atlantic City, N.J.
The Harry Kovner Memorial Awards of $100 each went to: Professor Hillel Eivli, New York, for his book of Hebrew poetry, “Aderet Hashanim” (Mantle of Years, Jerusalem, Mosad Bialik), and Naphtali Gross, Yiddish poet, given, posthumously, for “cumulative contributions to Yiddish poetry.” The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Eisig Silberschlag dean of the Hebrew Teachers College, Boston. Distinguished educator and noted poet. Dr. Silberschlag spoke on Hebrew Literature at Midcentury.
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