Ribalow Prize

The Ribalow Prize is a literary prize awarded annually by Hadassah Magazine the best work of fiction in English on a Jewish theme.

The prize, formally the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, was endowed in memory of Harold U. Ribalow, an American writer, editor, and anthologist.[1]

The inaugural prize was given in 1983 to Chaim Grade for the short story collection Rabbis and Wives. The stories, first published in Yiddish, were translated into English and published by Knopf in 1982.[2]

Year Author Title Publisher Shortlist
1983 Chaim Grade Rabbis and Wives Knopf
1984 Francine Prose Hungry Hearts Pantheon Books
1985 Max Apple Free Agents HarperCollins
1986 Lore Segal Her First American Knopf
1987 Aharon Appelfeld To the Land of the Cattails Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1988 Anne Roiphe Lovingkindness Shambhala Publications
1989 Anita Desai Baumgartner's Bombay Knopf
1990 Lynne Sharon Schwartz Leaving Brooklyn Houghton Mifflin
1991 Sandra Schor The Great Letter E North Point Press
1991 Michelle Herman Missing Ohio State University Press
1992 Louis Begley Wartime Lies Knopf
1993 Merrill Joan Gerber The Kingdom of Brooklyn Longstreet Press
1994 Carol de Chellis Hill Henry James' Midnight Song W. W. Norton & Company
1994 Michael Blumenthal Weinstock Among the Dying Zoland Books
1995 Magda Bogin Natalya Gods Messenger Charles Scribner's Sons
1996 Benjamin Taylor Tales Out of School Turtle Point Press
1997 Robert Cohen The Here and Now Charles Scribner's Sons
1998 Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces McClelland & Stewart
1999 Richard Teleky The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin Steerforth Press
2000 Todd Gitlin Sacrifice Metropolitan Books
2001 Myla Goldberg Bee Season Bantam Books
2002 Elizabeth Rosner The Speed of Light Ballantine Books
2003 Jonathan Safran Foer Everything Is Illuminated Houghton Mifflin
2003 Aryeh Lev Stollman The Illuminated Soul Riverhead Books
2004 Joseph Epstein Fabulous Small Jews Houghton Mifflin
2005 Jenna Blum Those Who Save Us Houghton Mifflin
2006 Tamar Yellin The Genizah at the House of Shepher Toby Press
2007 Dara Horn The World to Come W. W. Norton & Company
2008 Nathan Englander The Ministry of Special Cases Knopf
2009 Peter Manseau Songs for the Butcher's Daughter[3] Free Press
2010 Sara Houghteling Pictures at an Exhibition Knopf
2011 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Bloomsbury
2012 Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories Lookout Books
2013 Francesca Segal The Innocents Hachette Books
2014 Helene Wecker The Golem and the Jinni HarperCollins
2015 Molly Antopol The UnAmericans W. W. Norton & Company The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer (Penguin/Random House) and The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (Back Bay Books/Little Brown)[4]
2016 Jim Shepard The Book of Aron[5] Knopf
2017 Rose Tremain The Gustav Sonata Chatto & Windus The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb and As Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner[6]
2018 Carol Zoref Barren Island New Issues Poetry & Prose
2019 Michael David Lukas The Last Watchman of Old Cairo[7] Random House
  1. ^ "Book award honors Ribalow". New York Jewish Week. 25 May 1983.
  2. ^ "Chaim Grade Awarded Prize for Jewish Fiction". New York Times. 20 July 1983. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  3. ^ Ribalow Prize Winners Retrieved 28/6/22.
  4. ^ "Molly Antopol Wins Hadassah Fiction Award". The Forward. JTA. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  5. ^ Hadassah Magazine Retrieved 28/6/22.
  6. ^ "Rose Tremain's 'Gustav Sonata' wins Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  7. ^ Ribalow Prize Presented to Author Michael David Lukas Retrieved 28/6/22.