Jewish Book Council hails book, which details US chef's career of fusing Jewish and African-American cooking, for its 'deep dives into theology, identity, and, of course, food'

Author Max Gross lifts up the veil on his mysterious book about a small Polish Jewish town that fell off the map for decades till it abruptly encountered modernity

'Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times' joined by dozens of other varied works as winners named by Jewish Book Council

National Jewish Book Award-winner Charles King's 'Gods of the Upper Air' tells how a cohort of women scholars helped Franz Boaz give birth to the field of anthropology