The Bela Kornitzer Award was established in 1992 by Alicia Karpati and her late husband, George Karpati, in honor of Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother. The Award recognizes the achievements in Hungary and in the United States of Hungarian-born journalist and author Bela Kornitzer (1910-1964). Recent non-fiction books published by Drew Faculty and Alumni are considered for the prize every two years. In 2003, the endowment was increased to provide for separate Faculty and Alumni awards. The award winners are traditionally announced at the biennial January Friends of the Library Gala.
Award Recipients
| 1995 Professor Karen McCarthy Brown Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn University of California Press, 1991
1997 2000
2002
2004 Dr. Brian Regal, GSGS Ph.D. ’01, MA ‘96 |
2006 Assistant Professor of History C. Wyatt Evans The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy University of Kansas Press, 2004 Dr. J. Storrs Hall, C’76 2008 Dr. Martin Foys, C’90 2010 Dr. Robert McParland, CSGS ‘05 |
Bela Kornitzer’s papers, books, and other archival materials are housed among the Drew University Library’s Special Collections. See https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/Bela+Kornitzer+Papers for an overview. To view a past exhibit of the author’s work, see https://uknow.drew.edu/confluence/display/Library/Bela+Kornitzer%27s+Great+American+Heritage.

