2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards
We are pleased to invite you to the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards to be held on October 25, 2020 at 2pm at http://cjlawards.ca/ .
Come hear the winning authors speak and read from their work, and enjoy the ceremony from the comfort of your own home!
The 2020 Award Winners
Fiction: Abraham Boyarsky for Through Shadows Slow (8th House Publishing)
Jewish Thought and Culture: Tanhum Yoreh for Waste Not: A Jewish Environmental Ethic (SUNY Press)
Biography: Hernan Tesler-Mabé for Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895-1965 (Yale University Press)
History: Derek Penslar for Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (Yale University Press)
Children/Youth: Edeet Ravel for A Boy is Not a Bird (Groundwood Books)
Yiddish: Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert, editors for How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Restless Books)
Scholarship: David Novak for Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature (University of Toronto Press)
Poetry: Elana Wolff for Swoon (Guernica Editions)
Holocaust: Laurent Sagalovitsch for Le Temps des orphelins (Buchet/Chastel)