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.

Medal and Honor winners[]

Sophie Brody Medal and Honor Winners[2]
Year Recipient Title Publisher Citation
2021 Yishai Sarid The Memory Monster Restless Books Winner
2021 Hadley Freeman House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family Simon & Schuster Honor
2021 Max Gross The Lost Shtetl HarperVia Honor
2021 A.B Yehoshua The Tunnel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Honor
2021 Ariana Neumann When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains Scribner Honor
2020 Thomas Wolf The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz Pegasus Books Winner
2020 Leah Hager Cohen Strangers and Cousins Riverhead Books Honor
2020 Alice Hoffman The World That We Knew Simon & Schuster Honor
2020 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 Honor
2019 Michael Lukas The Last Watchman of Old Cairo Spiegel & Grau Winner
2019 Ronen Bergman Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations Random House Honor
2019 The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz Chicago Review Press Honor
2018 Ilana Kurshan If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir St. Martin’s Press Winner
2018 Leonardo Padura Heretics Farrar, Straus and Giroux Honor
2018 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 Honor
2017 Michael Chabon Moonglow: A Novel HarperCollins Winner
2017 Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward W. W. Norton & Company Honor
2017 Helen Maryles Shankman In the Land of Armadillos Charles Scribner's Sons Honor
2017 Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story Algonquin Books Honor
2017 Vilna My Vilna Syracuse University Press Honor
2016 Jim Shepard The Book of Aron: A Novel Alfred A. Knopf Winner
2016 After Abel and Other Stories Prospect Park Books Honor
2016 Primo Levi The Complete Works of Primo Levi Liveright Honor
2016 Sasha Abramsky The House of Twenty Thousand Books The New York Review of Books Honor
2016 Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel W. W. Norton & Company Honor
2015 Boris Fishman A Replacement Life HarperCollins Winner
2015 Stuart Rojstaczer The Mathematician’s Shiva Penguin Honor
2015 In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist New York Review of Books Honor
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 Honor
2014 Jeremy Dauber The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye Schocken Books Honor
2013 Matti Friedman The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible Algonquin Books Winner
2013 I Am Forbidden Hogarth Press Honor
2013 Nathan Englander What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank Alfred A. Knopf Honor
2013 Herman Wouk The Lawgiver Simon & Schuster Honor
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 Honor
2012 Art Spiegelman MetaMaus Pantheon Books Honor
2012 Quiet Americans: Stories Honor
2011 Judith Shulevitz The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time Random House Winner
2011 Eshkol Nevo Homesick Dalkey Archive Press Honor
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 Honor
2010 Melvin Konner The Jewish Body Schocken Books Honor
2010 Clara Kramer and Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival Ecco Press Honor
2009 Peter Manseau Songs for the Butcher's Daughter Free Press Winner
2009 Ron Leshem Beaufort Delacorte Press Honor
2009 A.B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire: A Duet Mariner Books Honor
2009 Arie Kaplan From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books Jewish Publication Society Honor
2008 Nathan Englander The Ministry of Special Cases Alfred A. Knopf Winner
2008 Shalom Auslander Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir Riverhead Books Honor
2008 Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper's Wife W. W. Norton & Company Honor
2008 You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother Oxford University Press Honor
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 Honor
2007 LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Bloomsbury Honor
2007 Markus Zusak The Book Thief Alfred A. Knopf Honor
2006 Avner Mandelman Talking to the Enemy Seven Stories Press Winner
2006 Michael Wex Born to Kvetch St. Martin's Press Honor
2006 Michael Lavigne Not Me Random House Honor
2006 Tom Reiss The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life Random House Honor

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Sophie Brody Award". ALA.org. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Sophie Brody Medal". RUSA Update. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2021.

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