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Sami Rohr Prize

 Oren Kessler

Oren Kessler awarded Sami Rohr Prize for 'Palestine 1936,' receives $100,000

 An architectural rendering of the new National Library of Israel building designed by the prestigious Swiss firm, Herzog & de Meuron. (© Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects, Executive Architect)

In a first, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew author and translator

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA , ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA