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.[1]
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.[2]
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Shortlist | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Rabbis and Wives | ||||
| 1984 | Hungry Hearts | ||||
| 1985 | Free Agents | ||||
| 1986 | Her First American | Knopf | |||
| 1987 | To the Land of the Cattails | ||||
| 1988 | Lovingkindness | ||||
| 1989 | Baumgartner's Bombay | Knopf | |||
| 1990 | Leaving Brooklyn | ||||
| 1991 | The Great Letter E | ||||
| 1991 | Missing | ||||
| 1992 | Wartime Lies | Knopf | |||
| 1993 | The Kingdom of Brooklyn | ||||
| 1994 | Henry James' Midnight Song | ||||
| 1994 | Weinstock Among the Dying | Zoland Books | |||
| 1995 | Natalya Gods Messenger | ||||
| 1996 | Tales Out of School | ||||
| 1997 | The Here and Now | ||||
| 1998 | Fugitive Pieces | ||||
| 1999 | The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin | Steerforth Press | |||
| 2000 | Sacrifice | ||||
| 2001 | Bee Season | ||||
| 2002 | The Speed of Light | ||||
| 2003 | Everything Is Illuminated | Houghton Mifflin | |||
| 2003 | The Illuminated Soul | ||||
| 2004 | Fabulous Small Jews | Houghton Mifflin | |||
| 2005 | Those Who Save Us | Houghton Mifflin | |||
| 2006 | The Genizah at the House of Shepher | ||||
| 2007 | The World to Come | ||||
| 2008 | The Ministry of Special Cases | Knopf | |||
| 2009 | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter[3] | Free Press | |||
| 2010 | Pictures at an Exhibition | Knopf | |||
| 2011 | The Finkler Question | ||||
| 2012 | Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories | ||||
| 2013 | The Innocents | ||||
| 2014 | The Golem and the Jinni | HarperCollins | |||
| 2015 | The UnAmericans | The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer (Penguin/Random House) and The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (Back Bay Books/Little Brown)[4] | |||
| 2016 | The Book of Aron[5] | Knopf | |||
| 2017 | The Gustav Sonata | The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb and As Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner[6] | |||
| 2018 | Barren Island | ||||
| 2019 | The Last Watchman of Old Cairo[7] |