A humorous novel about a college student’s search for his grandfather’s shtetl in Ukraine won the National Jewish Book Awards’ annual fiction prize. In addition to Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Everything is Illuminated,” David Lieber and Jules Harlow earned the nonfiction award for editing “Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary,” and Norman Finkelstein won the award for children’s literature for “Forged in Freedom: Shaping the Jewish-American Experience.”
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