Joanne Greenberg’s novel of Jews in 12th Century England, “The King’s Persons” today received from the National Jewish Welfare Board Jewish Book Council of America the $250 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as the outstanding English-language work of fiction of Jewish interest published in the United States during 1963.
The award was one of five carrying cash prizes totaling $950 for 1963’s best Jewish books in the fiction, Jewish thought, poetry and juvenile fields presented at the annual meeting of the Jewish Book Council. The Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award, a prize of $250 for the best book on Jewish thought went to Dr. Ben Zion Bokser, of the Forest Hills Jewish Center, for “Judaism: Profile of a Faith. “
Shulamith Ish-Kishor received the Isaac Siegel Memorial Juvenile Award of $250 for her book “A Boy of Old Prague. ” The Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Award of $100 each for Jewish poetry were presented to Dr. Arnold Band in Hebrew poetry for “Ha-Rei Boer Ba-Esh” and to A. Glanz-Leyeless in Yiddish poetry, for “Amerike un Ich.” Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman was re-elected chairman of the Jewish Book Council.
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