The Koret International Jewish Book Awards, managed for the first time this year by Jewish Family & Life! in cooperation with the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, will present the awards on November 15, 2006 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. The awards ceremony, emceed by Broadway legend Theodore Bikel, is scheduled to coincide with International Jewish Book Month.

Finalists

 

Jewish Life & Living

 

THE JGIRLS’ GUIDE
By Penina Adelman, Ali Feldman,
and Shulamit Reinharz
Jewish Lights Publishing

 

HISTORY ON TRIAL
By Deborah Lipstadt
Ecco Press

 

DIGNITY BEYOND DEATH
By Rochel Berman
Urim Publications

 

SEX, GOD, CHRISTMAS & JEWS
By Gil Mann
Leo & Sons Publishing

 

Jewish Fiction

 

THE SEVENTH BEGGAR
By Pearl Abraham
Riverhead Books

 

HER BODY KNOWS
By David Grossman
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

 

A CHANGED MAN
By Francine Prose
Harper Perennial

 

Jewish Thought

 

BETRAYING SPINOZA
By Rebecca Goldstein
Nextbook/Schocken

 

PURITY, SACRIFICE, AND THE TEMPLE
By Jonathan Klawans
Oxford University Press

 

THE PERSONHOOD OF GOD
By Yochanan Muffs
Jewish Lights Publishing

 

CAVIAR AND ASHES
By Marci Shore
Yale University Press

 

BabagaNewz Childrens’ Literature

 

SHLEMIEL CROOKS
By Anna Olswanger
Illustrated by Paula Goodman Koz
NewSouth Books

 

BUTTERFLIES UNDER OUR HATS
By Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Illustrated by  Joani Keller Rothenberg
Paraclete Press

 

BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
By Howard Schwartz
Illustrated by Kristina Swarner
Roaring Brook Press

 

Also presented will be the winner of the JBooks.com People’s Choice Award which is open for voting from September 6th through October 16th.  Vote today for your favorite work of Jewish fiction from the past decade and you will be entered to win one of eight Amazon Shopping Spree Gift Cards ranging in value from $25-$250.