Sophie Brody Award
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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 honorable mentions
| Year | Recipient | Title | Publisher | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Michael Chabon | Moonglow: A Novel | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2017 | Ezra Glinter | Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward | W. W. Norton & Company | Honorable Mention |
| 2017 | Helen Maryles Shankman | In the Land of Armadillos | Charles Scribner's Sons | Honorable Mention |
| 2017 | Matti Friedman | Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story | Algonquin Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2017 | Abraham Karpinowitz | Vilna My Vilna | Syracuse University Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2016 | Jim Shepard | The Book of Aron: A Novel | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2016 | Michal Lemberger | After Abel and Other Stories | Prospect Park Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2016 | Primo Levi | The Complete Works of Primo Levi | Liveright | Honorable Mention |
| 2016 | Sasha Abramsky | The House of Twenty Thousand Books | The New York Review of Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2016 | Dan Ephron | Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel | W. W. Norton & Company | Honorable Mention |
| 2015 | Boris Fishman | A Replacement Life | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2015 | Stuart Rojstaczer | The Mathematician’s Shiva | Penguin | Honorable Mention |
| 2015 | Ruchama King Feuerman | In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist | New York Review of Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2014 | Yossi Klein Halevi | Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2014 | Ari Shavit | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | Spiegel & Grau | Honorable Mention |
| 2014 | Jeremy Dauber | The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye | Schocken Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2013 | Matti Friedman | The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible | Algonquin Books | Winner |
| 2013 | Anouk Markovits | I Am Forbidden | Hogarth Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2013 | Nathan Englander | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank | Alfred A. Knopf | Honorable Mention |
| 2013 | Herman Wouk | The Lawgiver | Honorable Mention | |
| 2012 | Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole | Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza | Schocken Books | Winner |
| 2012 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Jerusalem: the Biography | Alfred A. Knopf | Honorable Mention |
| 2012 | Art Spiegelman | MetaMaus | Pantheon Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2012 | Erika Dreifus | Quiet Americans: Stories | Last Light Studio Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2011 | Judith Shulevitz | The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time | Random House | Winner |
| 2011 | Eshkol Nevo | Homesick | Dalkey Archive Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2010 | Jonathon Keats | The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six | Random House | Winner |
| 2010 | Thomas Buergenthal | A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy | Little Brown | Honorable Mention |
| 2010 | Melvin Konner | The Jewish Body | Schocken Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2010 | Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz | Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival | Ecco Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2009 | Peter Manseau | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | Free Press | Winner |
| 2009 | Ron Leshem | Beaufort | Delacorte Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2009 | A.B. Yehoshua | Friendly Fire | Honorable Mention | |
| 2009 | Arie Kaplan | From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books | Jewish Publication Society | Honorable Mention |
| 2008 | Nathan Englander | The Ministry of Special Cases | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2008 | Shalom Auslander | Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir | Riverhead Books | Honorable Mention |
| 2008 | Diane Ackerman | The Zookeeper's Wife | W. W. Norton & Company | Honorable Mention |
| 2008 | Joyce Antler | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | Oxford University Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2007 | Daniel Mendelsohn | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2007 | Dara Horn | The World to Come | W. W. Norton & Company | Honorable Mention |
| 2007 | Sandy Tolan | LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | Bloomsbury | Honorable Mention |
| 2007 | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Alfred A. Knopf | Honorable Mention |
| 2006 | Avner Mandelman | Talking to the Enemy | Seven Stories Press | Winner |
| 2006 | Michael Wex | Born to Kvetch | St. Martin's Press | Honorable Mention |
| 2006 | Michael Lavigne | Not Me | Random House | Honorable Mention |
| 2006 | Tom Reiss | The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life | Random House | Honorable Mention |
See also
References
- ^ "The Sophie Brody Award". Ala.org. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
External links