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For more information about the award system, visit their webpage. Jewish book world was a quarterly magazine published by the jewish book council from 1982 to 2015. It was devoted to the promotion of books of jewish interest. The vine awards for canadian jewish literature is a major canadian literary award relaunched in 2016 and presented annually by torontos koffler centre of the arts. Congratulations to our friends at the jewish publication society who won four national jewish book awards last week inventing jewish ritual by vanessa ochs, which ive blogged about, was the winner in the category of contemporary jewish life and practice the power of song and other sephardic tales by rita roth was the winner in the category of jewish family literature. Sydney taylor and national jewish book awards announced.
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