Five awards carrying cash prizes totalling $800 for 1958’s best works of Jewish interest in the fiction, poetry and juvenile fields were made at the annual meeting of the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board here today.
The $250 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award went to Leon Uris for his novel, “Exodus.” The Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Awards of $100 each went to: Moshe Ben Meir (given posthumously) for his volume of Hebrew poetry, “Sound and Shadow”; Benjamin Bialostotzky, for his Yiddish work, “Poem to Poem”; and Grace Goldin for her work of English Poetry, “Come Under the Wings: A Midrash on Ruth.” The Isaac Siegel Memorial Juvenile Award for 1958’s best juvenile in English was given to Lloyd Alexander for his “Border Hawk: August Bondi.”
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