A prize of $2,500 for a novel in the English language on Jewish life in America was announced here today by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The award, named for Alexander Frieder, who is establishing it, will be made by a Jury of prominent literary figures. The contest is open from the present until April, 1949.
According to the announcement by the U.A.H.C. the objective of the Frieder Award is to “seek out talented American writers, regardless of national or religious origin, who will deem it rewarding to apply their creative gifts to fiction of inspirational character: a novel at once artistic, dramatic and entertaining.”
The Judges of the contest are: Fannie Hurst, internationally noted novelist, playwright and short-story writer; Lewis Browne, popular historian, biographer and novelist; William McFee, distinguished novelist and literary critic; Louis B. Rittenberg, well-known encyclopedist, linguist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Liberal Judaism, official organ of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
Similar awards have been established by Mr. Frieder in the fields of drama, poetry and biography. These contests will be conducted in successive years following completion of the fiction contest.
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