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{{Short description|Annual award of the American Library Association}}
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The '''Sophie Brody Award''' is an annual award of the [[American Library Association]], administered by the Reference and User Services Association [[Reference and User Services Association|RUSA]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/brody|title=The Sophie Brody Award|publisher=ALA.org|accessdate=21 May 2019}}</ref> It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US.
The '''Sophie Brody Award''' (Sophie Brody Meda) is an annual award of the [[American Library Association]], administered by the Reference and User Services Association [[Reference and User Services Association|RUSA]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/brody|title=The Sophie Brody Award|publisher=ALA.org|accessdate=21 May 2019}}</ref> It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US. <ref>Gladstein C. "Sophie’s Choice: The Best of Jewish Literature. ''Library Journal''. 2010;135(12):118.</ref> It was established in 2006.
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The award is named after [[Sophie Brody]] and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the [[Brodart]] Foundation.

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The award is named after [[Sophie Brody]] and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.


==Honorees==
==Honorees==
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Revision as of 19:56, 25 January 2024

The Sophie Brody Award (Sophie Brody Meda) is an annual award of the American Library Association, administered by the Reference and User Services Association RUSA.[1] It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US. [2] It was established in 2006. The award is named after Sophie Brody and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.

Honorees

Year Author Title Publisher Result
2006 Avner Mandelman Talking to the Enemy Seven Stories Press Winner
Michael Wex Born to Kvetch St. Martin's Press Honor
Michael Lavigne Not Me Random House
Tom Reiss The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life Random House
2007 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million HarperCollins Winner
Sandy Tolan LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Bloomsbury Honor
Markus Zusak The Book Thief Alfred A. Knopf
Dara Horn The World to Come W. W. Norton & Company
2008 Nathan Englander The Ministry of Special Cases Alfred A. Knopf Winner
Shalom Auslander Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir Riverhead Books Honor
Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper's Wife W. W. Norton & Company
Joyce Antler You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother Oxford University Press
2009 Peter Manseau Songs for the Butcher's Daughter Free Press Winner
Ron Leshem Beaufort Delacorte Press Honor
A.B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire: A Duet Mariner Books
Arie Kaplan From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books Jewish Publication Society
2010 Jonathon Keats The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six Random House Winner
Thomas Buergenthal A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy Little Brown Honor
Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival Ecco Press
Melvin Konner The Jewish Body Schocken Books
2011 Judith Shulevitz The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time Random House Winner
Eshkol Nevo Homesick Dalkey Archive Press Honor
2012 Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza Schocken Books Winner
Simon Sebag Montefiore Jerusalem: the Biography Alfred A. Knopf Honor
Art Spiegelman MetaMaus Pantheon Books
Erika Dreifus Quiet Americans: Stories Last Light Studio Books
2013 Matti Friedman The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible Algonquin Books Winner
Anouk Markovits I Am Forbidden Hogarth Press Honor
Herman Wouk The Lawgiver Simon & Schuster
Nathan Englander What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Alfred A. Knopf
2014 Yossi Klein Halevi Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation HarperCollins Winner
Ari Shavit My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Spiegel & Grau Honor
Jeremy Dauber The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye Schocken Books
2015 Boris Fishman A Replacement Life HarperCollins Winner
Ruchama King Feuerman In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist The New York Review of Books Honor
Stuart Rojstaczer The Mathematician’s Shiva Penguin
2016 Jim Shepard The Book of Aron: A Novel Alfred A. Knopf Winner
Michal Lemberger After Abel and Other Stories Prospect Park Books Honor
Dan Ephron Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel W. W. Norton & Company
Primo Levi The Complete Works of Primo Levi Liveright
Sasha Abramsky The House of Twenty Thousand Books The New York Review of Books
2017 Michael Chabon Moonglow: A Novel HarperCollins Winner
Ezra Glinter Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward W. W. Norton & Company Honor
Helen Maryles Shankman In the Land of Armadillos Charles Scribner's Sons
Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story Algonquin Books
Abraham Karpinowitz Vilna My Vilna Syracuse University Press
2018 Ilana Kurshan If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir St. Martin’s Press Winner
Leonardo Padura Heretics Farrar, Straus and Giroux Honor
Bruce Henderson Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler William Morrow
2019 Michael Lukas The Last Watchman of Old Cairo Spiegel & Grau Winner
Ronen Bergman Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations Random House Honor
Jeremy Dronfield The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz Chicago Review Press
2020 Thomas Wolf The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz Pegasus Books Winner
Leah Hager Cohen Strangers and Cousins Riverhead Books Honor
Daniel Okrent The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America Simon & Schuster
Alice Hoffman The World That We Knew Simon & Schuster
2021 Yishai Sarid The Memory Monster Restless Books Winner
Hadley Freeman House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family Simon & Schuster Honor
Max Gross The Lost Shtetl HarperVia
A.B Yehoshua The Tunnel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ariana Neumann When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains Scribner

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Sophie Brody Award". ALA.org. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. ^ Gladstein C. "Sophie’s Choice: The Best of Jewish Literature. Library Journal. 2010;135(12):118.

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