The winners of the 10th annual Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced.

The annual awards recognize Canadian writing on Jewish themes and subjects. This is the second year that the Irving Abella Award in History has been awarded.

Winners were selected by a jury comprised of writer and broadcaster Edward Trapunski, author Rona Arato, author and journalist Andrew Cohen, lawyer Mark Freiman, professor Alain Goldschläger, author and publisher Anna Porter, and Sandra Rabinovitch, the founding producer of CBC’s Writers & Company.

The winners will be honoured at an awards ceremony in Toronto on Oct. 27.

This year’s winners are:

The Irving Abella Award in History

• After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany by Michael Kater (Yale University Press)

Memoir/Biography

• Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain by Jill Culiner (Claret Press)

Fiction

• Let It Destroy You by Harriet Alida Lye (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)

Poetry

• Talking to Strangers by Rhea Tregebov (Signal Editions/Véhicule Press)

Children and Youth

• Rising by Sidura Ludwig (Candlewick/PRHC)

Jewish Thought and Culture

• Faithfully Seeking Franz by Elana Wolff (Guernica Editions)

Yiddish

• In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava Rosenfarb translated by Goldie Morgentaler (White Goat Press)