{"id":452,"date":"2013-10-06T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2016-01-21T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T22:34:22","slug":"2014-sami-rohr-prize-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2013\/10\/06\/2014-sami-rohr-prize-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Sami Rohr Prize finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five finalists for the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize have been announced, and I was thrilled to hear that\u00a0<em>The Aleppo Codex\u00a0<\/em>is one of them. The Rohr Prize is the biggest in the world of Jewish literature, and one of the biggest in general.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s other finalists are <em>Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition<\/em>, by Marni Davis; <em>Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine<\/em>, by Nina S. Spiegel; <em>Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism,\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Sarah Bunin Benor;\u00a0and\u00a0Eliyahu Stern&#8217;s <em>The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The prize goes to emerging authors of fiction and non-fiction in alternating years. Last year was a fiction year, and the winner was Francesca Segal for <em>The Innocents<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tablet Magazine&#8217;s piece on the announcement is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/147824\/2014-sami-rohr-prize-finalists-announced\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0And there&#8217;s more on the prize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishbookcouncil.org\/awards\/sami-rohr-prize-2014\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, at the Jewish Book Council&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five finalists for the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize have been announced, and I was thrilled to hear that\u00a0The Aleppo Codex\u00a0is one of them. The Rohr Prize is the biggest in the world of Jewish literature, and one of the biggest in general. This year&#8217;s other finalists are Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition, by Marni &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}