Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

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Menachem Kaiser wins Sami Rohr Prize for nonfiction

May 19, 2022

The story recounts the author’s Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland.

Menachem Kaiser. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

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Sami Rohr Prize and National Library of Israel jump-start new literary endeavor

February 15, 2022

The $100,000 prize is given to an emerging writer who demonstrates the potential for continued contribution to Jewish literature.

A simulated image of the new National Library of Israel Reading Hall. Credit: ©Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect.

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