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Alter, the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative
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The award for philosophy and thought was granted to a courageous
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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
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In celebration of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Awards, the Jewish
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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.) won the award for biography. 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.

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