Katz Center Fellows Shine in the National Jewish Book Awards

Four current and past Katz Center fellows won top honors:

• Coauthors Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers were awarded in the American Jewish Studies category for American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York.
• In the History category An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland by Kenneth B. Moss won first place.
• Eli­she­va Baumgarten won in the Women’s Studies category for Bib­li­cal Women and Jewish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages.

In addition, four Katz Center fellows and affiliated scholars were recognized as finalists:

• Adam D. Mendelsohn’s recent book Jew­ish Sol­diers in the Civ­il War: The Union Army stood out in the American Jewish Studies category.
• In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism, by Michael Brenner was a runner-up in the History category.
• Jessica Marglin was a finalist in the History category for The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean.
• Daniel J. Lasker was recognized in the Scholarship category for Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism.
• In the Sephardic Culture category Joseph Sassoon was honored for his The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.