2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards ceremony will take place on Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University.

This year’s honorees are:

Biography/Memoir: Moshe Safdie for If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture

Children and Youth: Heather Camlot for The Prisoner and the Writer

Fiction: Lori Weber for The Ribbon Leaf

History (The Irving Abella Award): Doris Bergen for Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany

Holocaust: Josef Lewkowicz for The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

Jewish Thought and Culture: Sara Ronis for Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia

Poetry: Gary Barwin for The Most Charming Creatures

Scholarship: Derek Sayer for Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History

Yiddish: Rebecca Margolis for Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission

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Special Achievement Award: Michael Posner for Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories

Special Citation: Simon-Pierre Lacasse for Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille : regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976

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