Four authors, including Israeli journalist and October 7 survivor Amir Tibon, have been named as finalists for the 2026 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, in association with the National Library of Israel.

The ceremony, which will be the 20th year the Sami Rohr Prize has been awarded, is planned for July in Jerusalem.

One of the selected authors will receive a $100,000 prize, which is presented annually to an emerging writer with potential to continually contribute to the world of Jewish literature.

Laura Hobson Faure, the author of “Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America during the Holocaust” (Yale University Press). Hobson Faure, a professor of modern Jewish history at Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, wrote about the complex rescue efforts for Jewish children who fled Nazi-occupied territories to France and later to the United States.

American sociologist Shaul Kelner already won a National Book Award for his book “A Cold War Exodus: How American........

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