Congratulations to National Jewish Book Award Winners

YIVO congratulates the winners of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, especially our colleagues:

Hasia Diner & Gennady Estraikh, editors of 1929: Mapping the Jewish World

Gennady Estraikh is teaching a course on Jewish Literary Life in the Soviet Union for the YIVO-Bard Winter Program on Ashkenazi Civilization.

Elissa Bemporad, author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award

Elissa Bemporad gave a book talk at YIVO in June 2013 and was recently interviewed by Yedies.

Jeremy Dauber author of The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye
Finalist, The Krauss Family Award in Memory of Simon & Shulamith (Sofi) Goldberg

Jeremy Dauber spoke about his book at YIVO in October 2013.