Sophie Brody Award

Awards and honourable mentions

• 2014: Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, HarperCollins

  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

• 2013: Matti Friedman, The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible, Algonquin

  Honourable Mentions: Anouk Markovits, I Am Forbidden, Hogarth

  Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Knopf

  Herman Wouk, The Lawgiver.

• 2012: Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, Schocken Books

  Honourable Mentions: Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: the Biography, Alfred A. Knopf

  Art Spiegelman, MetaMaus, Pantheon Books

  Erika Dreifus, Quiet Americans: Stories, Last Light Studio Books

• 2011: Judith Shulevitz, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, Random House

  Honourable Mentions: Eshkol Nevo, Homesick, Dalkey Archive

• 2010: Jonathon Keats, The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six, Random House

  Honourable Mentions: Thomas Buergenthal, Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Little Brown

  Melvin Konner, The Jewish Body, Schocken

  Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz, Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival, Ecco

• 2009: Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Free Press

  Honourable Mentions: Ron Leshem, Beaufort, Delacorte Press

  A.B. Yehoshua, Friendly Fire

  Arie Kaplan, From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, Jewish Publication Society

• 2008: Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases, Knopf

  Honourable Mentions: Shalom Auslander, Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir, Riverhead Books

  Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, Norton

  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

  Honourable Mentions: Dara Horn, The World to Come, Norton

  Sandy Tolan, The LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Bloomsbury; and Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Knopf

• 2006: Avner Mandelman, Talking to the Enemy, Seven Stories Press

  Honourable Mentions: Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch, St. Martin's

  Michael Lavigne, Not Me, Random House

  Tom Reiss, The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, Random House