{"id":1496,"date":"2019-04-30T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:17:20","slug":"historian-wins-national-jewish-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/departments\/historian-wins-national-jewish-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Historian Wins National Jewish Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1497\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/files\/2019\/04\/NQ_Erbelding-bw-9090.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" data-attachment-id=\"1497\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/departments\/historian-wins-national-jewish-book-award\/attachment\/nq_erbelding-bw-9090\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/files\/2019\/04\/NQ_Erbelding-bw-9090.jpg?fit=710%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"710,473\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Miriam Lomaskin&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"N&amp;#038;Q_Erbelding-bw-9090\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Rebecca Erbelding \u201903; Miriam-Lomaskin photo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/files\/2019\/04\/NQ_Erbelding-bw-9090.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/files\/2019\/04\/NQ_Erbelding-bw-9090.jpg?fit=710%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1497\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/magazine.umw.edu\/spring2019\/files\/2019\/04\/NQ_Erbelding-bw-9090.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Erbelding \u201903; Miriam-Lomaskin photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Erbelding \u201903<\/strong> won a 2018 National Jewish Book Award for her nonfiction work <em>Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America\u2019s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe<\/em>. The book, published by Penguin Random House \u2013 Doubleday, tells the story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s effort to save Jews from the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Erbelding won the JDC \u2013 Herbert Katzki Award for \u201cwriting based on archival material.\u201d Begun in 1950, the National Jewish Book Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious awards in Jewish literature.<\/p>\n<p>Erbelding, who majored in American studies and history at Mary Washington, is an archivist, curator, and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She has a Ph.D. in American history from George Mason University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Erbelding \u201903 won a 2018 National Jewish Book Award for her nonfiction work Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America\u2019s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe. 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