Miriam Udel won a National Jewish Book Award in the category of "Modern Jewish Thought and Experience" for her book Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque, published by University of Michigan Press as part of the Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures series, edited by Jonathan Freedman, Scott Spector, Anita Norich and Deborah Dash Moore.

Find the entire series at the University of Michigan Press website

See all of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award winners