- 2012 – Hasia R. Diner, "Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration and the Peddlers Who Made It Possible"
- 2011 – Derek Penslar, ″Jews into Israelis: Zionism as a Revolutionary Project″
- 2010 – Natalie Zemon, ″Jerusalem Regained: The Learned Converso Nassy and Davis Jewish Colonization in the Seventeenth Century″
- 2009 – Susannah Heschel, ″The Jewish Fascination with Islam″
- 2008 – Amitav Ghosh ″The Making of In an Antique Land: India, Egypt, and the Cairo Geniza″
- 2007 – Sasson Somekh, ″Baghdad, Yesterday: A Memoir of a Secular Arab-Jew″
- 2006 – Mary Douglas, ″Numbering the People of Israel: Biblical and Secular Agendas″
- 2005 – Walter Laqueur, ″Jerusalem 1938 & After″
- 2004 – Michael Chabon, ″Golems and Charlotte Russes″
- 2003 – Bernard Lewis, ″The Judaeo- Islamic Tradition″
- 2002 – Tom Segev, ″Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel″
- 2001 – Deborah Lipstadt, ″Denying the Holocaust: Perspectives from a British Courtroom″
- 2000 – Nathan Glazer, ″The Jewish Urban Experience: An Age That is Past″
- 1999 – Monika Adamczyk, ″Is there a Place for Jewish Culture in Modern Garbowska Contemporary Poland?″
- 1998 – Saul Friedlander, ″Writing the History of the Shoah: Some Major Dilemmas″
- 1997 – Yaron Ezrahi, ″Power and Conscience in Modern Israel″
- 1996 – Itamar Rabinovich, ″The Arab-Israel Conflict: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Experience″
- 1995 – Leon Weiseltier, ″A Passion for Waiting: The Jews, The Messiah, and the Future″
- 1994 – Michael Walzer, ″Biblical Wisdom: The Value and Limits of Prudence in Politics″
- 1993 – Shulamit Aloni, ″Israel in the Changing World After 45 Years of Trial and Error″ (cancelled)
- 1992 – Arthur Hertzberg, ″American Jews in the Twenty-first Century : A Declining Elite?″
- 1991 – A.B. Yehoshua, ″Jews and Judaism in the Culture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy″
- 1990 – Ruth Wisse, ″Little Love in Big Manhattan : Two Yiddish Poets″
- 1989 – Shlomo Avineri, ″Jews in the Year 2000: Israel and the Diaspora″
- 1988 – Amos Oz, ″The Eyes of the Lord : Hebrew Literature, Letter and Spirit″
- 1987 – Moshe Greenberg, ″How Jews have Interpreted the Bible Through the Ages″
- 1986 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, ″The Jewish Political Tradition and Politics in the State of Israel″
- 1985 – Robert Alter, ″The Flaubertian Agnon″
- 1984 – Judah Goldin, ″The Freedom and Restraint of Haggadah″
- 1983 – Dan Miron, ″Modern Hebrew Literature : Theoretical Anticipations and the Historical Realities″
- 1982 – Yosef Hayim, ″Spinoza on the Survival of the Jews″ Yerushalmi
- 1981 – Salo W. Baron, ″Is America Prepared for Jewish Minority Rights?″
- 1980 – Arnold Band, ″The Structure of the Classic Hasidic Tale″
- 1979 – Gerson D. Cohen, ″The Biblical Debate on the Meaning of History″
