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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=7 December 2014}}</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.
The award is named after [[Sophie Brody]] and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the [[Brodart]] Foundation.


==Honorees==
The award is named after [[Sophie Brody]] and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.
{| class="wikitable sortable"

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


==See also==
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* [http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/01/dreamers-wins-rusas-sophie-brody-medal-winner-achievement-jewish-literature 2014 "Like Dreamers" press release]
* [http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/01/dreamers-wins-rusas-sophie-brody-medal-winner-achievement-jewish-literature 2014 "Like Dreamers" press release]


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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

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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

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References

[edit]
  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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