| Year
|
Author
|
Title
|
Publisher
|
Result
|
| 2006
|
Avner Mandelman
|
Talking to the Enemy
|
Seven Stories Press
|
Winner
|
| Michael Wex
|
Born to Kvetch
|
St. Martin's Press
|
Honor
|
| Michael Lavigne
|
Not Me
|
Random House
|
| Tom Reiss
|
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
|
Random House
|
| 2007
|
Daniel Mendelsohn
|
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
|
HarperCollins
|
Winner
|
| Sandy Tolan
|
LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
|
Bloomsbury
|
Honor
|
| Markus Zusak
|
The Book Thief
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
| Dara Horn
|
The World to Come
|
W. W. Norton & Company
|
| 2008
|
Nathan Englander
|
The Ministry of Special Cases
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Winner
|
| Shalom Auslander
|
Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir
|
Riverhead Books
|
Honor
|
| Diane Ackerman
|
The Zookeeper's Wife
|
W. W. Norton & Company
|
| Joyce Antler
|
You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother
|
Oxford University Press
|
| 2009
|
Peter Manseau
|
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
|
Free Press
|
Winner
|
| Ron Leshem
|
Beaufort
|
Delacorte Press
|
Honor
|
| A.B. Yehoshua
|
Friendly Fire: A Duet
|
Mariner Books
|
| Arie Kaplan
|
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
|
Jewish Publication Society
|
| 2010
|
Jonathon Keats
|
The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six
|
Random House
|
Winner
|
| Thomas Buergenthal
|
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
|
Little Brown
|
Honor
|
| Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz
|
Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival
|
Ecco Press
|
| Melvin Konner
|
The Jewish Body
|
Schocken Books
|
| 2011
|
Judith Shulevitz
|
The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
|
Random House
|
Winner
|
| Eshkol Nevo
|
Homesick
|
Dalkey Archive Press
|
Honor
|
| 2012
|
Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
|
Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
|
Schocken Books
|
Winner
|
| Simon Sebag Montefiore
|
Jerusalem: the Biography
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Honor
|
| Art Spiegelman
|
MetaMaus
|
Pantheon Books
|
| Erika Dreifus
|
Quiet Americans: Stories
|
Last Light Studio Books
|
| 2013
|
Matti Friedman
|
The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
|
Algonquin Books
|
Winner
|
| Anouk Markovits
|
I Am Forbidden
|
Hogarth Press
|
Honor
|
| Herman Wouk
|
The Lawgiver
|
Simon & Schuster
|
| Nathan Englander
|
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
| 2014
|
Yossi Klein Halevi
|
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
|
HarperCollins
|
Winner
|
| Ari Shavit
|
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
|
Spiegel & Grau
|
Honor
|
| Jeremy Dauber
|
The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye
|
Schocken Books
|
| 2015
|
Boris Fishman
|
A Replacement Life
|
HarperCollins
|
Winner
|
| Ruchama King Feuerman
|
In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist
|
The New York Review of Books
|
Honor
|
| Stuart Rojstaczer
|
The Mathematician’s Shiva
|
Penguin
|
| 2016
|
Jim Shepard
|
The Book of Aron: A Novel
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Winner
|
| Michal Lemberger
|
After Abel and Other Stories
|
Prospect Park Books
|
Honor
|
| Dan Ephron
|
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
|
W. W. Norton & Company
|
| Primo Levi
|
The Complete Works of Primo Levi
|
Liveright
|
| Sasha Abramsky
|
The House of Twenty Thousand Books
|
The New York Review of Books
|
| 2017
|
Michael Chabon
|
Moonglow: A Novel
|
HarperCollins
|
Winner
|
| Ezra Glinter
|
Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward
|
W. W. Norton & Company
|
Honor
|
| Helen Maryles Shankman
|
In the Land of Armadillos
|
Charles Scribner's Sons
|
| Matti Friedman
|
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story
|
Algonquin Books
|
| Abraham Karpinowitz
|
Vilna My Vilna
|
Syracuse University Press
|
| 2018
|
Ilana Kurshan
|
If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
|
St. Martin’s Press
|
Winner
|
| Leonardo Padura
|
Heretics
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
Honor
|
| Bruce Henderson
|
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
|
William Morrow
|
| 2019
|
Michael Lukas
|
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
|
Spiegel & Grau
|
Winner
|
| Ronen Bergman
|
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
|
Random House
|
Honor
|
| Jeremy Dronfield
|
The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
|
Chicago Review Press
|
| 2020
|
Thomas Wolf
|
The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz
|
Pegasus Books
|
Winner
|
| Leah Hager Cohen
|
Strangers and Cousins
|
Riverhead Books
|
Honor
|
| Daniel Okrent
|
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America
|
Simon & Schuster
|
| Alice Hoffman
|
The World That We Knew
|
Simon & Schuster
|
| 2021
|
Yishai Sarid
|
The Memory Monster
|
Restless Books
|
Winner
|
| Hadley Freeman
|
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Honor
|
| Max Gross
|
The Lost Shtetl
|
HarperVia
|
| A.B Yehoshua
|
The Tunnel
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
| Ariana Neumann
|
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains
|
Scribner
|
| 2022
|
Jane Yolen
|
Kaddish Before the Holocaust and After: Poems
|
Holy Cow Press
|
Winner
|
| 2023
|
Michael Frank
|
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
|
Avid Reader Press
|
Winner
|
| 2024
|
James McBride
|
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
|
Riverhead
|
Winner
|