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Six-Day War tome wins book award

new york (jta) | A book about the 1967 Six-Day War was named the 2002-03 Jewish book of the year by the National Jewish Book Awards. "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East," by Michael Oren, won the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award in the 53rd annual competition.

"The Russian Debutante's Handbook," by Gary Shteyngart, triumphed in the fiction category.

Other winners were "Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent," by Gerald Sorin in the history category, and "Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust," by Nehama Tec, which won for books about the Holocaust. A complete list of winners is available at http://www.jbooks.com.