Sophie Brody Award
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
References
- ↑ "The Sophie Brody Award". Ala.org. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
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