Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

[kpjayan]

2022 winner : https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-706932

Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure, was named on Tuesday as the 2022 winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.



Past winners : https://www.samirohrprize.org/winners

I am not familiar with any of these names..

 

[Benny Profane]

Neither did I, @kpjayan.
I'm not familiar with those names too.

I thank you so much for sharing of this prize (I've never heard of it before).

I'm very interest in Sarah Abrevaya Stein's works. She studies the history of Sephardi Jews and the holocaust of ladinos and marranos (jews from Iberia - Spain and Portugal).
As I have sepharadi (or sephardi) heritage, I was very interested in her researches about it.

Thank you again, brother!

 

[tiganeasca]

I recognize the names of Nicole Krauss (fairly well-known active novelist whose most recent book was published last year) and Tamar Yellin (obscure and purely by chance I know her name; she appears to have written three books in three years, the most recent of which was published in 2008 and then never again). The others are all unknown to me which, sad to say, makes me wonder about the prize....

 

[kpjayan]

2023 winner

For 1st time, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author, translator

Award goes to Iddo Gefen's 'Jerusalem Beach'; organizers says including works translated into English, and honoring those who do the translating, adds new dimension to competition

www.timesofisrael.com