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Philip Roth’s ‘good-bye Columbus’ Wins Jewish Fiction Award

Philip Roth’s “Good-Bye Columbus” was voted the $250 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award for the best work of Jewish fiction in 1959 last night at the annual meeting of the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board. The award was one of five with total cash prizes of $800 for the […]

May 13, 1960
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Philip Roth’s “Good-Bye Columbus” was voted the $250 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award for the best work of Jewish fiction in 1959 last night at the annual meeting of the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board.

The award was one of five with total cash prizes of $800 for the best 1959 works of Jewish fiction, poetry and Juveniles. The Harry and Florence Kovner Memorial Awards of $100 each went to Dr. Eisig Silberschlag for a volume of Hebrew Poetry, “Arch of My Days,” published in Jerusalem; Ephraim Auberbach for his “Golden Sunset, ” a volume of Yiddish poetry, published in Buenos Aires; and Amy K. Blank for her book of English poetry, “The Spoken Choice. “

The Isaac Siegel Memorial Juvenile Award was given to Sylvia Rothschild for her “Keys to a Magic Door: Isaac Leib Peretz.”

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