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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 RUSA.^[1] It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US.

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

Awards and honourable mentions

2017: Michael Chabon, Moonglow: A Novel. Harper.
Honourable mentions: Ezra Glinter, Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward, Norton

Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos, Scribner

Matti Friedman, Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story, Algonquin

Abraham Karpinowitz, Vilna My Vilna, Syracuse University Press
2016: Jim Shepard, The Book of Aron: A Novel, Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House
Honourable mentions: Michal Lemberger, After Abel and Other Stories, Prospect Park Books

Primo Levi, The Complete Works of Primo Levi, Liveright

Sasha Abramsky, The House of Twenty Thousand Books, The New York Review of Books

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
Honourable mentions: Stuart Rojstaczer, The Mathematician’s Shiva, Penguin

Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, New York Review of Books
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 Books
2013: Matti Friedman, The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible, Algonquin Books
Honourable mentions: Anouk Markovits, I Am Forbidden, Hogarth Press

Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, Alfred A. 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 Press
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 Books

Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz, Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival, Ecco Press
2009: Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Free Press
Honourable mentions: Ron Leshem, Beaufort, Delacorte Press

A.B. Yehoshua, Friendly Fire (2008 book)

Arie Kaplan, From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, Jewish Publication Society
2008: Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases, Alfred A. Knopf
Honourable mentions: Shalom Auslander, Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir, Riverhead Books

Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, W. W. Norton & Company

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, W. W. Norton & Company

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
2006: Avner Mandelman, Talking to the Enemy, Seven Stories Press
Honourable mentions: Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch, St. Martin's Press

Michael Lavigne, Not Me, Random House

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

See also

Sophie Brody

References

^ "The Sophie Brody Award". Ala.org. Retrieved 7 December 2014.

External links

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