Each year the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society presents the Dr. Allan P. and Leona Hurst Award to a person who has rendered outstanding service to the Society and to New Mexico Jewish History.

1998     Stanley M. Hordes, PhD
1999     Walter Kahn
2000    Henry Tobias, PhD
2001    Melanie LaBorwit
2002    Claire Grossman
2003    Taos Jewish Center
2004    Leah Kellogg
2005    Rabbi Leonard A. Helman
2006    Noel Pugach, PhD
2007    Abraham S. Chanin, PhD
2008    none
2009    Lance Bell and Dorothy Corner Amsden
2010    Naomi Sandweiss
2011    Sharon Niederman
2012    Lisa Kaplan Witt