Yad Vashem International Book Prize For Holocaust Research
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The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research is an annual award by
Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
in recognition of high scholarly research and writing on the Holocaust or its antecedents and aftermath published two years preceding the year of the award. It was established in 2011 in memory of Abraham Meir Schwartzbaum, Holocaust survivor, and his family who was murdered in the Holocaust.Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research"
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2018

Awarded to Ion Popa for his book ''The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust'' (2017) and to
Daniel Reiser Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...
for ''Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira: Sermons from the Years of Rage''.


2014

''
Hunt for the Jews ''Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland'' is a 2013 book about the Holocaust in Poland by Jan Grabowski. The 2013 English edition followed a 2011 Polish-language edition (published as ''Judenjagd: polowanie na Żydów' ...
'' , by
Jan Grabowski Jan Grabowski (born 1962) is a Polish-Canadian professor of history at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Jewish–Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust in Poland."''Hunt for the Jews'' snags Yad Vashem book prize"
''Times of Israel'' (JTA), 8 December 2014.


2013

The 2013 call for prize is to consider the works published between January 2011 and December 2013.


2012

On December 10, 2012, the award was presented to Christoph Dieckmann, of
Keele University Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, Keele ...
(UK), for his 2-volume book ''Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944'' (''German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944'').


2011

The first award ceremony was at Yad Vashem on January 8, 2012."First International Yad Vashem Book Prize for Holocaust Research Awarded to Christopher Browning and Daniel Blatman"
a press release
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Christopher R. Browning Christopher Robert Browning (born May 22, 1944) is an American historian who is the professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). A specialist on the Holocaust, Browning is known for his work documenting ...
, for his book ''Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp'', 2010 *
Daniel Blatman Daniel Blatman is an Israeli historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust. Blatman is the head of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Blatman was a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studie ...
, for his book, ''The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide'', 2010, .


References

{{reflist Israeli literary awards Holocaust studies Yad Vashem Awards established in 2011 2011 establishments in Israel