Sophie Brody Award

The ‘’'Sophie Brody Award’'’ (Sophie Brody Medal) is an annual award of the American Library Association, administered by the Reference and User Services Association RUSA. It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US. 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

• Sophie Brody

External links

• ALA award page
• 2014 "Like Dreamers" press release