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The Paris Review quarterly magazine is published by The Paris Review
Foundation, Inc. This year, nearly 500 publisher submissions were juried by
panels of prominent academics, novelists, and distinguished writers. The winning Young Writer
(under 40 ) on Jewish Themes receives a $25,000 award and the
opportunity to spend a quarter in residence at Stanford University,
teaching, researching, and writing.
For an invitation to the April 11 ceremony , please contact the
Koret Foundation at kjba@koretfoundation.

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Gourevitch , 43, is a well-known author and long-time staff writer of The
New Yorker."
Gourevitch said he began reading The Paris Review in the library
periodical room as a college freshman, and he said: "One of the many amazing
things about The Paris Review is that it has steadily defied the conventional
wisdom about literary magazines. And it has a great sense of humor."
Gourevitch holds an M. in fiction writing from Columbia University,
and has published a number of short stories in literary quarterlies.
The award for philosophy and thought was granted to a courageous
work of self-exploration , Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in
the Jewish Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press ) by Rabbi Steven
Greenberg, an Orthodox, homosexual rabbi and one of the leading
educators at CLAL -- The National Jewish Center for Learning and
Leadership, founded by the renowned Yitz Greenberg (no relation).

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His first book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We
Will Be Killed With Our Families: stories from Rwanda," was published by
Farrar Straus + Giroux (FSG) in 1998, and won numerous prizes , including a
National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a George
Polk Book Award, and in Britain, the Guardian First Book Award. The winner, The Cats in
Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse, illustrated by Wendy Watson
(Scholastic Books) is a quietly compelling, poetic rendering of a
young girl's resistance to the horror of life in the Warsaw Ghetto,
illuminating the darkness of the time in terms that are gentle and
accessible enough for young readers.
In the history category , Elisheva Baumgarten's Mothers and
Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton University
Press) is an original and fascinating portrait of the intimacy of
Jewish family, motherhood, and childhood in the context of life in
medieval Christian Europe.D. This marks the first year that the Koret Jewish Book
Awards ceremony will be held in San Francisco, home of the Koret
Foundation .

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worked as cultural editor of the Forward in the early nineties, before turning
to writing full time. Zipperstein,
chairman of the Koret Jewish Book Awards advisory board and director
of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University.

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Its interviews with the world's finest writers have become an essential
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His books have appeared in
translation in ten languages . Gourevitch, a long time board member of the
writers' organization PEN, has written extensively from Africa, Asia, and
Europe, and will be interested in publishing more writing from abroad. "And Philip is very
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SAN FRANCISCO----Robert Alter's
path-breaking translation and commentary on The Five Books of Moses
and Amos Oz's celebrated memoir of growing up in the fledgling State
of Israel have been selected as 2004-2005 Koret Jewish Book Award
winners, it was announced today.
Alter, the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative
Literature and Director of Jewish Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley, won a special award for translation and
commentary for The Five Books of Moses (W.jccsf.

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Tim Bradford won Koret 's Young Writer on Jewish Themes award.

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It is not a bit obscure, just excellent and
readable. His second
book, "A Cold Case," was published by FSG in 2001, and is being adapted for
the screen by Tom Hanks and Universal Pictures. Set in the
dizzying final days of the apartheid regime in his native South
Africa, Eprile's novel, written from his adopted home in Vermont,
explores the curse of a perfect memory in a nation plagued with
rose-colored recall.

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NEW YORK, The board of The Paris Review
Foundation today named Philip Gourevitch as the magazine's new editor. His appointment comes at a time of renewed enthusiasm and support
for sustaining The Paris Review following the death , in 2003, of George
Plimpton, who had presided over the magazine for its first half century.
Each book award carries a $10,000 prize.

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"The
translation is outstanding, and the culmination of a lifetime of the
highest level of scholarly achievement," said Steven J. The
book is a learned, accessible , and unflinchingly honest theological
work that resulted from the author's decade-long struggle to reconcile
his religious beliefs and his sexual orientation, and conveys his
evolution to resolution .

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Tony Eprile produced the fiction category winner with his debut
novel, The Persistence of Memory (W.

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"He is best known for his
brilliant reporting.
For the first time in the program's seven -year history, a prize
was awarded for children's literature.

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Philip Gourevitch Named Editor of The Paris Review

"Philip greatly impressed us," said Robert Silvers, co-editor of The New York
Review of Books, who led the Search Committee.

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Since their inception in 1998, the Koret Jewish Book Awards have
become the most prestigious awards in Jewish writing, giving
heightened attention to the best Jewish books in the categories of
biography, fiction, history, and philosophy, and now , children's
literature.

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In celebration of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Awards, the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco will present a "Literary Arts
Mosaic " on Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10, with a series of
free events showcasing the Award winners as well as other celebrated
local authors, including Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) and
Shalom Auslander in Conversation.

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It has never belonged to a particular literary school or movement, but
rather it has always embraced literature as a whole, in the largest possible
way.
"George believed that an editor should be strong and decisive and should
also be free to give a magazine its character according to his sensibility,"
Sarah Dudley Plimpton, widow of George Plimpton, said.W. A work
of uncommon insight, passion, and deep, searching intelligence, the
memoir is a story -- as seen through the uncannily persuasive eyes of
a child -- of Oz's parents, of Jerusalem in the late 1940s and early
'50s, and of a young, haunted Israeli state.
The Koret Jewish Book Awards will be presented on Monday, April
11, at an invitation-only ceremony at the Jewish Community Center of
San Francisco .

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candidate at Oklahoma State University, Bradford is currently
conducting research for a novella on the history of the Velodrome
d'Hiver, the 1942 roundup of French and stateless Jews who were held
in the winter cycling stadium in Paris before being shipped off to
Auschwitz. Koret judges cited Bradford's achievement in blending
fiction, poetry, photographs, and historical documents into a graceful
and significant story.

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Previous years' awards ceremonies have been held in New
York.

A detailed schedule of events is
available at www.

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His editorship promises to continue the tradition of
The Paris Review by surprising us with new writing.F.

UC Berkeley Prof's New Torah Translation Tops Koret Jewish Book Award Winners

Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness, translated from the Hebrew by
Nicolas de Lange (Harcourt, Inc.
In addition to children's literature and biography, Koret Jewish
Book Awards are conferred in the categories of history, fiction, and
philosophy and thought . W.