Two works by Brandeis faculty named as finalists for National Jewish Book Award
January 23, 2025
The Jewish Book Council has selected publications by husband and wife faculty members President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz, Phd’72, H’11, and Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Emerita Shulamit Reinharz, GSAS MA’69, PhD’77, as finalists for this year’s National Jewish Book Award.
Jehuda Reinharz coauthored “Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,” with Motti Golani. Brandeis University Press published the volume, which was recognized in the biography category, in 2024. Shula Reinharz was named a finalist in the category of Holocaust Memoir for her book “Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir.”
More than 120 judges considered more than 700 submissions.
Other Brandeis University Press books were winners or finalists, as well:
- Finalist, Sephardic Culture: “Mazeltob: A Novel”, by Frances Malino and Yaelle Azagury; Blanche Bendahan
- Finalist, Visual Arts: “Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection,” by Ann Brener
- Finalist, Visual Arts: “The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter: From Sacred Scrolls to Graffiti,” by Izzy Pludwinski
- Winner, Women’s Studies Barbara Dobkin Award: “Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women's Rights in Israel,” by Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks
