Sami Rohr Prize
Sami Rohr Prize 2026 shortlist highlights family survival and Jewish history
The annual award — which alternates each year between works of fiction and nonfiction and which honors emerging Jewish writers — is considered one of the most prominent awards in Jewish literature.
Oren Kessler awarded Sami Rohr Prize for 'Palestine 1936,' receives $100,000
In a first, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author and translator
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature lauds nonfiction in virtual award ceremony
Menachem Kaiser named winner of Sami Rohr literature prize for 2022
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is given in association with the National Library of Israel.
‘Kafka’s Trial’ wins prestigious Sami Rohr book prize
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature recognizes the unique role of contemporary writers in the examination and transmission of the Jewish experience.
Author of memoir recalling family’s Egyptian-Jewish past dies at 63
Lucette Matalon Lagnado, a Wall Street Journal reporter whose 2007 memoir of her Egyptian-Jewish family won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, was 63.
