Sami Rohr Prize

Oren Kessler awarded Sami Rohr Prize for 'Palestine 1936,' receives $100,000

Oren Kessler was praised for his analysis of the Middle East conflict. George Rohr highlights authors' contributions to Jewish literature. Debra Goldberg extends congratulations.

 Oren Kessler
 An architectural rendering of the new National Library of Israel building designed by the prestigious Swiss firm, Herzog & de Meuron. (© Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect)

In a first, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author and translator

 Menachem Kaiser documents his journey in “Plunder."

Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature lauds nonfiction in virtual award ceremony

 Menachem Kaiser documents his journey in “Plunder."

Menachem Kaiser named winner of Sami Rohr literature prize for 2022


‘Kafka’s Trial’ wins prestigious Sami Rohr book prize

The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature recognizes the unique role of contemporary writers in the examination and transmission of the Jewish experience.

Kafka's Last Trial by Benjamin Balint

Author of memoir recalling family’s Egyptian-Jewish past dies at 63

Lucette Matalon Lagnado, a Wall Street Journal reporter whose 2007 memoir of her Egyptian-Jewish family won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Literature, was 63.

CAIRO IN the late 19th century