2014 | National Jewish Book Award

| Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Writing Based on Archival Material Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture Honorable Mention, Salo W. Baron Prize of the American Academy for Jewish Research Honourable Mention, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern St