Reference Award
The AJL Judaica Reference Award, funded by Dr. Greta Silver of New York City, was established to encourage the publication of outstanding works of Judaica reference. Publishers wishing to submit books or inquire about the award should contact the Reference and Bibliography Awards Committee chair, Eitan Kensky elkensky@gmail.com.
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| Author/Editor | Title | Publisher | Publication Year | ISBN | Award | Award Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker, Zachary | Resources in Yiddish Studies | Geveb : a Journal of Yiddish Stories | 2017 | Reference (Honorable Mention) | 2018 | |
| Cohen, Julia, Stein, Sarah | Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 | Stanford University Press | 2014 | 9780804771658 | Reference (Honorable Mention) | 2015 |
| Babakniya, Ardashir | Hulukast | David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies | 2012 | 9780983076605 | Reference (Honorable Mention) | 2013 |
| Collins, John J., Harlow, Daniel C. | The Eerdmans dictionary of early Judaism | 2010 | 9780802825490 | Reference (Honorable Mention) | 2011 | |
| Bartrop, Paul R., Dickerman, Michael | Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection | ABC-CLIO | 2017 | 9781440840838 | Reference Award | 2018 |
| Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul, Lapin, Chava | Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary (based on the lexical research of Mordkhe Schaechter) | Indiana University Press | 2016 | 9780253022820 | Reference Award | 2016 |
| Feldman, Louis H., Kugel, James L., Schiffman, Lawrence H. | Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture | Jewish Publication Society | 2014 | 9780827609334 | Reference Award | 2015 |
| Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry | Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary | Indiana University Press | 2013 | 9780253009838 | Reference Award | 2014 |
| Stillman, Norman A. | Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world | Brill | 2010 | 9789004176782 | Reference Award | 2011 |
| Megargee, Geroffrey G. | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945 | Indiana University Press | 2009 | 9780253353283 | Reference Award | 2010 |
| Hundert, Gershon David | YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Yale University Press | 2008 | 9780300119039 | Reference Award | 2008 |
| Sherman, Joseph | Writers in Yiddish | Thomson Gale | 2007 | 9780787681517 | Reference Award | 2007 |
| Blau, Joshua | Milon le-t_ek_st_im _Arviyim-Yehudiyim mi-Yeme ha-Benayim | 2006 | 9789652081711 | Reference Award | 2006 | |
| Nigal, Gedalyah | Lek_sik_on ha-sipur ha-h_asidi | ha-Mekhon le-h_ek_er ha-sifrut ha-h_asidit | 2005 | Reference Award | 2005 | |
| Reisner, Rosalind | Jewish American Literature: A Guide to Reading Interests | Libraries Unlimited | 2004 | 9781563089848 | Reference Award | 2004 |
| Faiguenboim, Guilherme, Valadares, Paulo, Campagnano, Anna Rosa | Diciona_rio sefaradi de sobrenomes : inclusive crista_os novos, conversos, marranos, italianos, berberes e sua histo_ria na Espanha, Portugal e Ita_lia | Fraiha | 2003 | 9788585989200 | Reference Award | 2003 |
| Malka, Jeffrey S. | Sephardic Genealogy | Avotaynu | 2002 | 9781886223141 | Reference Award | 2002 |
| Spector, Shmuel, Wigoder, Geoffrey | The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust | Yad Vashem | 2001 | 9780814793565 | Reference Award | 2001 |
| Brisman, Shimeon | A history and guide to Judaic dictionaries and concordances | Ktav | 2000 | 9780881256581 | Reference Award | 2000 |
| Weiner, Miriam | Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova | Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation | 1999 | 9780965650816 | Reference Award | 1999 |
| Mohrer, Fruma, Web, Marek | Guide to the YIVO Archives | M.E. Sharpe | 1997 | 9780765601308 | Reference Award | 1998 |
| Hyman, E. Paula, Moore, Deborah Dash | Jewish women in America : an historical encyclopedia | Routledge | 1997 | 9780415919364 | Reference Award | 1997 |
| Beider, Alexander | A dictionary of Jewish surnames from the Kingdom of Poland | Avotaynu | 1996 | 9780962637391 | Reference Award | 1996 |
| Shapiro, Ann R. | Jewish American women writers : a bio-bibliographical and critical sourcebook | Greenwood Press | 1994 | 9780313284373 | Reference Award | 1995 |
| Marcus, Jacob Rader, Daniels, Judith M. | The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography | Carlson | 1994 | 9780926019744 | Reference Award | 1994 |
| Nulman, Macy | The encyclopedia of Jewish prayer : Ashkenazic and Sephardic rites | Jason Aronson | 1993 | 9780876683705 | Reference Award | 1993 |
| Cutter, Charles, Oppenheim, Micha Falk | Judaica reference sources : a selective, annotated bibliographic guide | Denali Press | 1993 | 9780938737315 | Reference Award | 1993 |
| Fischel, Jack, Pinsker, Sanford | Jewish-American History and Culture : An Encyclopedia | 1992 | 9780824066222 | Reference Award | 1992 | |
| Mokotoff, Gary, Sack, Sallyann Amdur | Where once we walked : a guide to the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust | Avotaynu | 1991 | 9780962637315 | Reference Award | 1991 |
| Encyclopedia of the Holocaust | Macmillan | 1990 | 9780028960906 | Reference Award | 1990 | |
| Steinsaltz, Adin | The Talmud : the Steinsaltz Edition | Random House | 1989 | 9780394576664 | Reference Award | 1989 |
| Bratkowsky, Joan Gloria | Yiddish linguistics : a multilingual bibliography | Garland | 1988 | 9780824098049 | Reference Award | 1988 |
| Brisman, Shimeon | A history and guide to Judaic encyclopedias and lexicons / _c Shimeon Brisman. | Hebrew Union College Press | 1987 | 9780878209095 | Reference Award | 1987 |
| Kagan, Berl | Lek_sik_on fun Yidish-shraybers : mit_ hesofes_ un tik_unim tsum Lek_sik_on fun der nayer Yidisher lit_erat_ur, un 5,800 psev_donimen | 1986 | Reference Award | 1986 | ||
| Feldman, Louis, H. | Josephus and modern scholarship, 1937-1980 | W. de Gruyter | 1984 | 9783110081381 | Reference Award | 1984 |
| Galron, Joseph (Yossi) | Body of Work | Special Body-of-Work Citation | 2009 | |||
| Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, Reif, Stefan | Body of Work | 2007 | Special Body-of-Work Citation | 2007 | ||
| Avotaynu, Inc. | Avotaynu | Special Body-of-Work Citation | 2003 | |||
| Kaganoff,Nathan M. | Body of Work: Judaica Americana | Carlson | 1995 | 9780926019751 | Special Body-of-Work Citation | 1995 |
| Eugene M. Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad, eds. | Pogroms: A Documentary History | Oxford University Press | 2021 | 978-0190060091 | Reference Award | 2022 |
| Miriam Udel | Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature | NYU Press | 2020 | 978-1479874132 | Reference Award | 2021 |
| Zvi Barsky | Ḥanut ṿe-taṿit: mokhre sefarim be-Erets Yiśraʼel, 1870-1948 (English title: Making a Mark: Booksellers in Palestine, 1870-1948 | Mi-neged hotsaʼah la-or | 2019 | 978-9659248964 | Rference Honorable Mention | 2021 |
| Noam Sienna | A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 | Print-O-Craft Press | 2019 | 978-0990515562 | Reference Award | 2020 |
| Marcin Wodziński | Historical Atlas of Hasidism | Princeton Press | 2018 | 978-0691174013 | Reference Award | 2019 |
| Malka Z. Simkovitch | Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism. | Jewish Publication Society | 2018 | Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism. | Reference Honorable Mention | 2019 |