HONORING EXCELLENCE
NURTURING TALENT
CREATING A COMMUNITY FOR JEWISH LITERATURE
Sean Gasper Bye
TRANSLATION FINALIST
"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
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'
YAAKOV KATZ
Guest on Dan Senor's Call Me Back podcast "Israel's Next Government"
"Cafe Loup" in The New Yorker
In conversation with Rabbi Peter Rubinstein with Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Molly Shapiro "L'dor V'dor"
Republishing of "HomeComings" in Moment on the 50th anniversary of the Munich Massacre
Featured writer Jewish Heritage Month
First speaker in a 4-part series exploring antisemitism March 24
Guest speaker at Denison Hosted by Margot Singer
LISA MOSES LEFF AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN Looting, Loss and Recovery: Virtual Symposium The Jewish Museum's YouTube Channel
Master class on
Sentence writing
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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
Co-authored in the Washington Post ״How universities can right past wrongs״
Discussion moderator at the screening of "Back in Berlin"
Israel book launch for the Hebrew translation of America's Jewish Women:
A History from Colonial Times to Today
New book released by
Yale University Press
The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature
Understanding Henrietta Szold: New Insights
ADAM KIRSCH
New book
Out on May 31
New short story
"The Yiddish Lesson"
in Tablet Magazine
Newly appointed 2021-2022 Andrew H. Siegel Professor in American Middle Eastern Foreign Policy at Georgetown's Center for Jewish Civilization
In conversation with
Jonathan Greenblatt
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
Spending Rosh Hashanah With a Very Hungry Caterpillar
"Five Must-Read Books on Kabbalah"
Is the Jewish ‘Golden Age Over?” Debated Bret Stephenson on the issue of the Jewish future
JONATHAN SARNA
Hiddushim: Celebrating Hebrew College’s Centennial Edited with Michael Fishbane and Arthur Green
MATTI FRIEDMAN
New book
Out on March 29
Now available in paperback
Cover story for
Smithsonian Magazine
"Mourning & Evening"
February 28
Jewish Book Week
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
A portfolio of poetry
The annual Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg memorial lecture
In conversation with Doniel Hartman and Elana Stein Hain The role of truth in Israeli politics
"Incubating Ideas"
In conversation with
Raquel Ukeles of NLI
Video conference with Ukraine's President Zelensk
Videobook on philosophy
and so much more
AVIYA KUSHNER
Received an NEA grant for
translation of Yudit Shahar poetr
New book
CONTACT
Debra Goldberg, Director:
T. +1-516-548-3921 | M. +972-52-333-8095 | F. +972-9-744-1180 | debra@samirohrprize.org