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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= |
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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==Honorees== |
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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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!Year |
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==Awards and honourable mentions== |
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!Author |
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* 2017: [[Michael Chabon]], [[Moonglow]], [[Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers]] |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Ezra Glinter]], [[Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward]], [[Norton]] |
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!Publisher |
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*: [[Helen Maryles Shankman]], [[In the Land of Armadillos]], [[Scribner]] |
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!Result |
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*: [[Matti Friedman]], [[Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story]], [[Algonquin]] |
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*: [[Abraham Karpinowitz]], [[Vilna My Vilna]], [[Syracuse University Press]] |
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! rowspan="4" |2006 |
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* 2016: [[Jim Shepard]], [[The Book of Aron: A Novel]], [[Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House]] |
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|'''{{sortname|Avner|Mandelman}}''' |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Michal Lemberger]], [[After Abel and Other Stories]], [[Prospect Park Books]] |
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|'''''Talking to the Enemy''''' |
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*: [[Primo Levi]], [[The Complete Works of Primo Levi]], [[Liveright]] |
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|'''[[Seven Stories Press]]''' |
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*: [[Sasha Abramsky]], [[The House of Twenty Thousand Books]], [[The New York Review of Books]] |
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|'''Winner''' |
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*: [[Dan Ephron]], [[Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel]], [[W.W. Norton]] |
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* 2015: [[Boris Fishman]], [[A Replacement Life]], [[HarperCollins]] |
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|{{sortname|Michael|Wex}} |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Stuart Rojstaczer]], [[The Mathematician’s Shiva]], [[Penguin]] |
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|''[[Born to Kvetch]]'' |
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*: [[Ruchama King Feuerman]], [[In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist]], [[New York Review of Books]] |
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|[[St. Martin's Press]] |
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* 2014: [[Yossi Klein Halevi]], [[Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation]], [[HarperCollins]] |
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| rowspan="3" |Honor |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Ari Shavit]], [[My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel]], [[Spiegel & Grau]] |
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*: [[Jeremy Dauber]], [[The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye]], [[Schocken Books]] |
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|{{sortname|Michael|Lavigne}} |
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* 2013: [[Matti Friedman]], [[The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible]], [[Algonquin Books]] |
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|''Not Me'' |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Anouk Markovits]], [[I Am Forbidden]], [[Hogarth Press]] |
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|[[Random House]] |
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*: [[Nathan Englander]], [[What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank]], [[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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*: [[Herman Wouk]], [[The Lawgiver]]. |
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|{{sortname|Tom|Reiss}} |
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* 2012: [[Adina Hoffman]] and [[Peter Cole]], [[Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza]], [[Schocken Books]] |
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|''The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life'' |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]], [[Jerusalem: the Biography]], [[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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|[[Random House]] |
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*: [[Art Spiegelman]], [[MetaMaus]], [[Pantheon Books]] |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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*: [[Erika Dreifus]], [[Quiet Americans: Stories]], [[Last Light Studio Books]] |
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! rowspan="4" |2007 |
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* 2011: [[Judith Shulevitz]], [[The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time]], [[Random House]] |
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|'''{{sortname|Daniel|Mendelsohn}}''' |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Eshkol Nevo]], [[Homesick (book)|Homesick]], [[Dalkey Archive Press]] |
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|'''''[[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]]''''' |
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* 2010: [[Jonathon Keats]], [[The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six]], [[Random House]] |
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|'''[[HarperCollins]]''' |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Thomas Buergenthal]], [[A Lucky Child|Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy]], [[Little Brown]] |
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|'''Winner''' |
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*: [[Melvin Konner]], [[The Jewish Body]], [[Schocken Books]] |
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*: [[Clara Kramer]] and [[Stephen Gantz]], [[Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival]], [[Ecco Press]] |
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|{{sortname|Sandy|Tolan}} |
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* 2009: [[Peter Manseau]], [[Songs for the Butcher's Daughter]], [[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]] |
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|''LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East'' |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Ron Leshem]], [[Beaufort (novel)|Beaufort]], [[Delacorte Press]] |
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|Bloomsbury |
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*: [[A.B. Yehoshua]], [[Friendly Fire (2008 book)]] |
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| rowspan="3" |Honor |
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*: [[Arie Kaplan]], [[From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books]], [[Jewish Publication Society]] |
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* 2008: [[Nathan Englander]], [[The Ministry of Special Cases]], [[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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|{{sortname|Markus|Zusak}} |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Shalom Auslander]], [[Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir]], [[Riverhead Books]] |
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|''[[The Book Thief]]'' |
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*: [[Diane Ackerman]], [[The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story]], [[W. W. Norton & Company]] |
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|[[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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*: [[Joyce Antler]], [[You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother]], [[Oxford University Press]] |
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* 2007: [[Daniel Mendelsohn]], [[The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million]], [[HarperCollins]] |
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|{{sortname|Dara|Horn}} |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Dara Horn]], [[The World to Come]], [[W. W. Norton & Company]] |
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|''The World to Come'' |
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*: [[Sandy Tolan]], [[The LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Bloomsbury; and Markus Zusak, The Book Thief]], [[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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|[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |
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* 2006: [[Avner Mandelman]], [[Talking to the Enemy]], [[Seven Stories Press]] |
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|- style="background:LemonChiffon;" color:black |
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*: Honourable mentions: [[Michael Wex]], [[Born to Kvetch]], [[St. Martin's Press]] |
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! rowspan="4" | 2008 |
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*: [[Michael Lavigne]], [[Not Me (book)|Not Me]], [[Random House]] |
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|'''{{sortname|Nathan|Englander}}''' |
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*: [[Tom Reiss]], [[The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life]], [[Random House]] |
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| '''''The Ministry of Special Cases''''' |
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| '''[[Alfred A. Knopf]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|{{sortname|Shalom|Auslander}} |
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| ''[[Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir|Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir]]'' |
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| [[Riverhead Books]] |
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| rowspan="3" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Diane|Ackerman}} |
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| ''[[The Zookeeper's Wife]]'' |
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| [[W. W. Norton & Company]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Joyce|Antler}} |
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| ''You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother'' |
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| [[Oxford University Press]] |
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|- style="background:LemonChiffon;" color:black |
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! rowspan="4" | 2009 |
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|'''{{sortname|Peter|Manseau}}''' |
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| '''''Songs for the Butcher's Daughter''''' |
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| [[Free Press (publisher)|'''Free Press''']] |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Ron|Leshem}} |
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| ''Beaufort'' |
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| [[Delacorte Press]] |
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| rowspan="3" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|A.B.|Yehoshua}} |
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| ''Friendly Fire: A Duet'' |
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| [[Mariner Books]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Arie|Kaplan}} |
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| ''From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books'' |
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| [[Jewish Publication Society]] |
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|- style="background:LemonChiffon;" color:black |
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! rowspan="4" | 2010 |
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|'''{{sortname|Jonathon|Keats}}''' |
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| '''''The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six''''' |
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| '''[[Random House]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Thomas|Buergenthal}} |
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| ''A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy'' |
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| [[Little, Brown and Company|Little Brown]] |
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| rowspan="3" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Clara|Kramer}} and Stephen Gantz |
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| ''[[Clara's War|Clara’s War]]: One Girl’s Story of Survival'' |
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| [[Ecco Press]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Melvin|Konner}} |
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| ''The Jewish Body'' |
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| [[Schocken Books]] |
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|- style="background:LemonChiffon;" color:black |
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! rowspan="2" | 2011 |
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|'''{{sortname|Judith|Shulevitz}}''' |
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| '''''The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time''''' |
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| '''[[Random House]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Eshkol|Nevo}} |
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| ''Homesick'' |
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| [[Dalkey Archive Press]] |
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| Honor |
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|- style="background:LemonChiffon;" color:black |
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! rowspan="4" | 2012 |
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|'''{{sortname|Adina|Hoffman}} and [[Peter Cole]]''' |
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| '''''Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza''''' |
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| '''[[Schocken Books]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Simon|Sebag Montefiore}} |
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| ''[[Jerusalem: The Biography|Jerusalem: the Biography]]'' |
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| [[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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| rowspan="3" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Art|Spiegelman}} |
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| ''[[MetaMaus]]'' |
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| [[Pantheon Books]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Erika|Dreifus}} |
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| ''Quiet Americans: Stories'' |
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| Last Light Studio Books |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="4" | 2013 |
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|'''{{sortname|Matti|Friedman}}''' |
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| '''''[[The Aleppo Codex]]: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible''''' |
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| '''[[Algonquin Books]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Anouk|Markovits}} |
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| ''I Am Forbidden'' |
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| [[Hogarth Press]] |
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| rowspan="3" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Herman|Wouk}} |
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| ''[[The Lawgiver]]'' |
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| [[Simon & Schuster]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Nathan|Englander}} |
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| ''[[What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank]]'' |
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| [[Alfred A. Knopf]] |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="3" | 2014 |
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|'''{{sortname|Yossi|Klein Halevi}}''' |
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| '''''Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation''''' |
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| '''[[HarperCollins]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Ari|Shavit}} |
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| ''My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel'' |
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| [[Spiegel & Grau]] |
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| rowspan="2" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Jeremy|Dauber}} |
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| ''The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye'' |
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| [[Schocken Books]] |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="3" | 2015 |
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|'''{{sortname|Boris|Fishman}}''' |
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| '''''A Replacement Life''''' |
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| '''[[HarperCollins]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Ruchama|King Feuerman}} |
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| ''In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist'' |
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| [[The New York Review of Books]] |
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| rowspan="2" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Stuart|Rojstaczer}} |
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| ''The Mathematician’s Shiva'' |
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| [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="5" | 2016 |
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|'''{{sortname|Jim|Shepard}}''' |
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| '''''[[The Book of Aron]]: A Novel''''' |
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| '''[[Alfred A. Knopf]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Michal|Lemberger}} |
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| ''After Abel and Other Stories'' |
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| [[Prospect Park Books]] |
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| rowspan="4" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Dan|Ephron}} |
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| ''Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel'' |
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| [[W. W. Norton & Company]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Primo|Levi}} |
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| ''The Complete Works of Primo Levi'' |
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| [[Liveright]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Sasha|Abramsky}} |
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| ''The House of Twenty Thousand Books'' |
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| [[The New York Review of Books]] |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="5" | 2017 |
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|'''{{sortname|Michael|Chabon}}''' |
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| '''''[[Moonglow (novel)|Moonglow]]: A Novel''''' |
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| '''[[HarperCollins]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Ezra|Glinter}} |
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| ''Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward'' |
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| [[W. W. Norton & Company]] |
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| rowspan="4" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Helen|Maryles Shankman}} |
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| ''[[In the Land of Armadillos]]'' |
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| [[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Matti|Friedman}} |
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| ''[[Pumpkinflowers]]: A Soldier’s Story'' |
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| [[Algonquin Books]] |
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|{{sortname|Abraham|Karpinowitz}} |
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| ''Vilna My Vilna'' |
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| [[Syracuse University Press]] |
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|- style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="3" | 2018 |
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|'''{{sortname|Ilana|Kurshan}}''' |
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| '''''If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir''''' |
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| [[St. Martin's Press|'''St. Martin’s Press''']] |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|{{sortname|Leonardo|Padura}} |
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| ''Heretics'' |
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| [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |
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| rowspan="2" | Honor |
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|{{sortname|Bruce|Henderson|Bruce Henderson (author)}} |
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| ''Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler'' |
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| [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]] |
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! rowspan="3" | 2019 |
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|'''{{sortname|Michael|Lukas|Michael David Lukas}}''' |
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| '''''The Last Watchman of Old Cairo''''' |
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| '''[[Spiegel & Grau]]''' |
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| '''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Ronen|Bergman}} |
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| ''[[Rise and Kill First]]: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations'' |
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| [[Random House]] |
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| rowspan="2" | Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Jeremy|Dronfield}} |
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| ''The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz'' |
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| [[Chicago Review Press]] |
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|-style=background:LemonChiffon; color:black |
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! rowspan="4" |2020 |
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|'''{{sortname|Thomas|Wolf|nolink=1}}''' |
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|'''''The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz''''' |
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|'''Pegasus Books''' |
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|'''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Leah|Hager Cohen}} |
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|''Strangers and Cousins'' |
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|[[Riverhead Books]] |
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| rowspan="3" |Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Daniel|Okrent}} |
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|''The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America'' |
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|[[Simon & Schuster]] |
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|{{sortname|Alice|Hoffman}} |
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|''The World That We Knew'' |
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|[[Simon & Schuster]] |
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! rowspan="5" |2021 |
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|'''{{sortname|Yishai|Sarid}}''' |
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|'''''The Memory Monster''''' |
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|'''[[Restless Books]]''' |
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|'''Winner''' |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Hadley|Freeman}} |
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|''House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family'' |
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|[[Simon & Schuster]] |
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| rowspan="4" |Honor |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|Max|Gross}} |
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|''The Lost Shtetl'' |
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|[[HarperVia]] |
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|- |
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|{{sortname|A.B|Yehoshua}} |
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|''The Tunnel'' |
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|[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |
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|{{sortname|Ariana|Neumann}} |
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|''When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains'' |
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|[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]] |
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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
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
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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
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[edit]- ^ "The Sophie Brody Award". ALA.org. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ Gladstein C. "Sophie’s Choice: The Best of Jewish Literature. Library Journal. 2010;135(12):118.
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