Seven authors of books of Jewish interest published during 1972 have been declared winners of awards to be presented by the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) at its annual meeting to be held at the Park Avenue Synagogue on May 20. The announcement was made by Dr. Eugene B. Borowitz. editor of Sh’ma and president of JWB’s Jewish Book Council.
The literary awards are given for outstanding works in the fields of Jewish history, the Nazi holocaust, Jewish thought, fiction. Yiddish poetry and children’s books.
Elie Wiesel, author of Souls on Fire (Random House), and Dr. Samuel Sandmel, author of Two Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible (Wayne State University Press) will receive the Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Awards in the field of Jewish thought. The Bernard H. Marks Award for a book of Jewish history will be presented for the first time to Dr. Arthur J. Zuckerman, author of A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900 (Columbia University Press).
The Leon Joison Award for a book on the Nazi holocaust has been won by Dr. Aaron Zeitler, author of Veiterdike Lider Fun Hurban Un Lider Fun Gloiben Un Yanish Kortshaks Letzte Gang (More Poems of the Holocaust and Poems of Faith and Yanish Kortshak’s Last Walk), published by Gergen Belzen Memorial Press. Robert Kotlowitz. author of Somewhere Else (Charterhouse, publisher), has been named winner of the William and Jance Epstein Award in the field of Jewish fiction.
For her book The Upstairs Room (Thomas Y. Crowell Company), Mrs. Johanna Reiss will receive the Charles and Bertie G. Schwartz Award in the category of Jewish juveniles. In the field of Yiddish poetry, Meir Sticker, author of Yidishe Land-Shaft (Jewish Landscape), published by I.L. Peretz Publishing House, will receive the Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Award. Sticker is the city editor of the Yiddish daily. Forward. Each of the awards carries with it a $500 prize and a citation.
A Federal judge ruled in Brooklyn, N.Y. that Mrs, Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was not an American citizen and so could be expatriated to West Germany where she faces war crimes charges. The Judge, however, reserved decision on whether he would order her extradition. The court also dented once again her lawyer’s request for bail. Before deciding on extradition, the Judge said he would study documents of an Austrian court proceeding in 1949 on her war crimes.
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