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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 41 (1976)

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Winners

4 people

A sweeping history of Nazi persecution of Jews from its ideological roots to mass murder. It is regarded as a classic of Holocaust studies.

A definitive study tracing how accumulated antisemitism became organized murder.

460 pages
HolocaustantisemitismNazismhistorical synthesis

A report-driven nonfiction study by an author who traveled widely across the Middle East. It brings together Arab history, politics, Islam, and the region's self-understanding while moving between travel writing and historical narrative.

More than a survey, it gives the Arab world depth through the texture of field reporting.

449 pages
Middle EastArab historyIslamfield reporting
Raphael Patai Winner

A co-written study that critically examines the idea of Jews as a single biological race from the perspectives of history, anthropology, and genetics. It forces readers to rethink the boundaries between ethnicity, religion, and identity.

A provocative and scholarly book that questions the very idea of a 'Jewish race.'

350 pages
race conceptsJewish historyanthropologygenetics

A large-scale history of the legal struggle that led to the Brown decision, moving from post-slavery segregation to the Supreme Court's deliberations. It is a standard reference for understanding the legal foundations of the civil rights movement.

An exhaustive work that tells not just the ruling, but the long struggle behind it.

823 pages
civil rightsconstitutional lawschool segregationthe Supreme Court