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Awards & Endorsements

“Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories” by Blume Lempel: Modern Language Association’s Leviant Prize for the best Yiddish translated published book form (2014-2019)

Theodore Bikel’s and Aimee Ginsburg Bikel’s “The City of Light”: Skipping Stones Magazine’s annual award for Honor Award for Children’s Multicultural literature in (2019)

Bob Mankoff, “Have I Got A Cartoon For You: The Moment Magazine’s Book of Jewish Cartoons”: Foreword Reviews Magazine’s, Silver Medal Awards for the best book published by an Independent Press in the category of Adult Nonfiction Humor and Nonfiction Children’s Literature (2019)

Edna Itturalde’s book “Green Was My Forest”: Skipping Stones, Honor Award for Children’s Multicultural literature in (2020)

“Immigration Reform: The Corpse That Will Not Die” by Charles Kamasaki:- (2020) Latino International Book Award for the best book on Current Events in English

Tara Masih’s “My Real Name is Hanna”:

  • Finalist, National Jewish Book Award, Young Adult Literature
  • Florida Book Award, Gold Medal
  • Julia Ward Howe Award
  • Foreword Reviews Gold Medal Winner for Historical Fiction
  • Skipping Stones Honor Award
  • A Goodreads’ Best Book of the Month in YA
  • Foreword Reviews Finalist Best Indie Book in Young Adult Fiction

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Foreword Indies Awards (2016): INDIES Winner Science Fiction for Pedro Cabiya’s “Wicked Weeds Mandel Vilar Press

MLA Book Awards (2017): Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies Winner for Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub for their translation of “Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories”, by Blume Lempel Mandel Vilar Press

Foreword Indies Awards (2018): INDIES Winner Historical Fiction for Tara Lynn Masih’s “My Real Name Is Hanna” Mandel Vilar Press

Florida Book Awards (2018): 1st Place Young Adult-Tara Lynn Masih, St. Augustine, “My Real Name Is Hanna” Mandel Vilar Press

Foreword Indies Awards (2019): INDIES Winner Humor for Bob Mankoff Roz Chast’s “Have I Got a Cartoon for You!” Mandel Vilar Press

Foreword Indies Awards (2019): INDIES Book of the Year Winner Juvenile Nonfiction for Theodore Bikel’s “The City of Light” By Aimee Ginsburg Bikel Illustrations by Noah Phillips Mandel Vilar Press

International Latino Book Awards (2020) “Best Book in Political Science and History” for Charles Kamasaki’s “The Corpe That Would Not Die” Mandel Vilar Press

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