Last night was the ceremony honoring the winner’s of this year’s National Jewish Book Awards, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. The University of Nebraska Press is honored that one of our books was among the winning titles.

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union, by Yitzhak Arad, translated by Ora Cummings, and published by the University of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem, won in the writing based on archival materials category. To tell this story, Arad studied documents from a number of sources, many of which had been previously unavailable to scholars, and uncovered a world where Jews were treated even more harshly than in most other occupied territories during World War II.

The ceremony was held last night at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, and Arad, who lives in Israel, was able to make the journey for the award. Congratulations!