Taube Center Alumna Wins National Jewish Book Award

The National Jewish Book Award winners have just been announced. Both the winner and the finalist in the following category are Taube Center alumnae:

Writing Based on Archival Material

The JDC-Herbert Katzki Award

Winner:

Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk
Elissa Bemporad
Indiana University Press

Finalists:

Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Nina S. Spiegel
Wayne State University Press