Sophie Brody Award
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
| 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 | ||
| 2022 | Jane Yolen | Kaddish Before the Holocaust and After: Poems | Holy Cow Press | Winner |
| 2023 | Michael Frank | One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Avid Reader Press | Winner |
| 2024 | James McBride | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | Riverhead | Winner |
See also
References
- ^ "The Sophie Brody Award". ALA.org. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ Gladstein C. "Sophie’s Choice: The Best of Jewish Literature. Library Journal. 2010;135(12):118.
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