Sigal Samuel

The winners of this year’s Canadian Jewish Literary Awards were announced on Sept. 29. Winners in eight categories were chosen from a list of 60 submitted works. Judges included authors Edward Trapunski‚ Michael Posner‚ and Lesley Simpson‚ along with New Jewish Press co-publisher Andrea Knight‚ Holocaust Literature Research Institute director Alain Goldschläger‚ and Ontario Jewish Archives board member Judith Ghert. The following recipients will be celebrated at a gala at Toronto’s York University on Oct. 30.

Fiction

• Sigal Samuel‚ The Mystics of Mile End (Freehand Books)

Holocaust Literature

• Agata Tuszyńska‚ A Family History of Fear (Knopf Canada)

Memoir/Biography

• Howard Akler, Men of Action (Coach House Press)

Children and Youth Fiction

• Anne Dublin‚ 44 Hours or Strike! (Second Story Press)

History

• Michael Marrus‚ Lessons of the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press)

Yiddish

• Helen Mintz‚ trans.‚ Vilna, My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz (Syracuse University Press)

Jewish Thought and Culture

• Julia Creet‚ Sara R. Horowitz‚ and Amira Bojadzija-Dan, eds.‚ H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (Northwestern University Press)

Scholarship

• Sarah Phillips‚ Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press)