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Cynthia Ozick and Gal Beckerman are among the winners of the 2010 National Jewish Book Awards. The awards, which were announced Tuesday, are given out annually by the Jewish Book Council to honor the best in American Jewish writing. Ozick, a novelist and essayist, won a Lifetime Achievement Award for her many works of fiction and criticism. Beckerman, a journalist, was honored with the Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award for “When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: the Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” his account of efforts to obtain freedom for Jews in the former Soviet Union.