HONORING EXCELLENCE
NURTURING TALENT
CREATING A COMMUNITY FOR JEWISH LITERATURE
"Make your bookshelves
your companions"
-Judah Ibn Tibbon-
SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE
INAUGURATED IN 2007 BY THE ROHR FAMILY
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature honors the legacy of Sami Rohr z”l, who enjoyed a lifelong love of Jewish learning and great books.
As the premier award of its kind, the annual prize recognizes the unique role of contemporary writers in the examination and transmission of the Jewish experience. The $100,000 prize is presented to an emerging writer who demonstrates the potential for continued contribution to the world of Jewish literature.
Finalists and winners of monetary prizes become Fellows in the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute. Past winners have acknowledged the impact of the Prize on their careers and professional pursuits.
NEW AND NOTEWORTHY
HAIM WATZMAN
Fiction & War
Oct. 7 War Stories
Shelter
Staged reading of his play "The Chair"
Can liberal Judaism survive and thrive in the digital age?
in Jewish Review of Books
Review of "The US and the Holocaust" documentary series
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Keynote speaker at Bar Ilan Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Lecture on June 5
Bruno Schulz
New York Times Book Review
On Tour for The Red Balcony
Winner of NJBA Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award
Eight Thoughts on Israel’s Political Crisis
What does it mean to be ‘Jew-ish’?
In conversation with Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli at the Democracy 2023 Conference
GAL BECKERMAN
The Imani Perry Reading List
Being Jewish in the Arts
Short stories in Salmagundi and Threepenny Review
DANYA RUTTENBERG
On Repentance and Repair Longlisted, 2024
Wingate Prize
Finding Truth in Israeli Fiction
Forward review of her new book on Golda Meir
On Hubert Humphrey
Politico Magazine
Yom HaShoah Lecture, UAlbany
Impossible Takes Longer Book Review
Adaptation of The Flight Portfolio for Netflix
The Minyan: Holocaust Survivors
NJBA American Jewish Studies Finalist
What Would Yossi Say? Podcast
On Remembering & Our Greatest Strength webinar
"Wartime North Africa" UCLA
BENJAMIN BALINT
March 10
Bruno Schulz: Art, Murder & the Hijacking of History Jewish Book Week 2024
Writing When Words Fail Us Workshop
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Opinion piece in the NYT
Speaker at the Cambridge Interfaith Programme Conference
New Position at Johns Hopkins
‘I Speak English, but I Don’t Speak American’
Lecture on Jewish Culture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ritual, Even as an Atheist, Has Enormous Power
In discussion about Characters Who Hear and Mishear Each Other
Winner of NJBA Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History
The Joy of Watching “Wednesday” with Daughters
In conversation with David Makovsky on the ideology of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
Five Things That Can Change Your Life Starting Today
Antisemitism Symposium
New prayers for those held captive by Hamas
On the 50th anniversary of The Jewish Catalog
The New York Times
Opinion, Guest Essay
Celebrating the launch
of Tehran Children in Hebrew on May 22
Translating Hope: Israeli “Poet of the Working Class”
Interview for his new book on the history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’
Winner of NJBA Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award
The World According to Foreign Policy Podcasts
Interview by Brian Anderson
Unmasking Antisemitism panel discussion marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Guest speaker
American University's Jewish Studies Program's 'Acts of Remembrance: Shaping Holocaust Memory in the 21st Century'
CONTACT
Debra Goldberg, Director:
T. +1-516-548-3921 | M. +972-52-333-8095 | F. +972-9-744-1180 | debra@samirohrprize.org