Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Check out the 2009 Win­ners of the Cana­di­an Jew­ish Book Awards:

BIOG­RA­PHY & MEM­OIR
The Cana­di­an Jew­ish News Award
Peter C. New­man, Izzy: the Pas­sion­ate Life and Tur­bu­lent Times of Izzy Asper
Pub­lished by Harp­er Collins Canada

FIC­TION
The Beat­rice and Mar­tin Fis­ch­er Award
Ami Sands Brod­off, The White Space Between
Pub­lished by Sec­ond Sto­ry Press

HIS­TO­RY
The Joseph and Faye Tanen­baum Award
Bar­rie Wil­son, How Jesus Became Chris­t­ian
Pub­lished by Ran­dom House Canada

HOLO­CAUST LIT­ER­A­TURE
The Cana­di­an Soci­ety for Yad Vashem Award
Joseph Kertes, Grat­i­tude
Pub­lished by Pen­guin Canada

POET­RY
The Samuel and Rose Cohen Award
Isa Mil­man, Prairie Kad­dish
Pub­lished by Coteau Books

SCHOL­AR­SHIP ON A JEW­ISH SUB­JECT
The Abe and Fay Bergel Award
Rein­hold Kramer, Morde­cai Rich­ler: Leav­ing St. Urban
Pub­lished by McGill-Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty Press

YID­DISH LIT­ER­A­TURE
The Abra­ham and Eve Tra­pun­s­ki Award
David Roskies, Yid­dish­Lands
Pub­lished by Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty Press

YOUTH LIT­ER­A­TURE
The Louis L. Lock­shin and Bren­da Freed­man Award
Kathy Kac­er, The Diary of Laura’s Twin
Pub­lished by Sec­ond Sto­ry Press

To view more detailed infor­ma­tion on the 2009 Awards, please vis­it here.

The Cana­di­an Jew­ish Book Awards cel­e­brates excel­lence in Cana­di­an writ­ing that reflects Jew­ish themes and sub­jects in his­to­ry, fic­tion, Yid­dish, and oth­er fields.