Prof. Chaim Tchernowitz, H.Leivick and Simcha Petrushka have been named the winners of the annual prize awarded by the Louis Lamed Foundation for the best books published in Hebrew and Yiddish during the year, it was announced today.
Prof. Tchernowitz was given the prize for his Hebrew volume, “The Wise Men of Odessa;” Leivick, for a book of Yiddish poems, “I Was Not in Tremblinka” and Petrushka for his translation from Hebrew into Yiddish of the Mishnayoth, a digest of Jewish ritual and jurisprudence. Each author will receive $400. The jury could not reach any agreement on the fourth prize which is usually awarded.
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