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