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Jewish American Heritage Month: Sophie Brody Awards - Nonfiction

Established in 2006, the Sophie Brody Medal recognizes outstanding achievement in Jewish literature for adults. The award is named after the philanthropist and is administered by the American Library Association. This list includes nonfiction works that received the award or an honorable mention.

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32 items

  • Unearthed

    a Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Frank, Meryl,
    Honorable mention - 2024
    BookNew York : Hachette Books, 2023. — 940.5318 FRANK
  • One Hundred Saturdays

    Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

    Frank, Michael, 1959 June 2-
    Winner - 2023
    BookNew York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2022] — 949.587 LEVI FRANK
  • People Love Dead Jews

    Reports From a Haunted Present

    Horn, Dara, 1977-
    Honorable mention - 2022
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021] — 909.0492 HORN
  • Squirrel Hill

    the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

    Oppenheimer, Mark, 1974-
    Honorable mention - 2022
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. — 364.1523 OPPENHEI
  • American Baby

    a Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

    Glaser, Gabrielle,
    Honorable mention - 2022
    Book[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — 362.734 GLASER
  • House of Glass

    the Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-century Jewish Family

    Freeman, Hadley,
    Honorable mention - 2021
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 940.5318 FREEMAN
  • When Time Stopped

    a Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

    Neumann, Ariana,
    Honorable mention - 2021
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2020. — 940.5318 NEUMANN
  • The Guarded Gate

    Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

    Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
    Honorable mention - 2020
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2019. — 344.743 OKRENT
  • Rise and Kill First

    the Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

    Bergman, Ronen,
    Honorable mention - 2019
    BookNew York : Random House, [2018] — 320.9569 BERGMAN
  • Sons and Soldiers

    the Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned With the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

    Henderson, Bruce B., 1946-
    Honorable mention - 2018
    BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — 940.5315 HENDERSO
  • Honorable mention - 2017
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016. — 956.9204 FRIEDMAN
  • Honorable mention - 2016
    BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. — 858.914 LEVI V.1
  • Killing a King

    the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel

    Ephron, Dan,
    Honorable mention - 2016
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015] — 956.9405 EPHRON
  • Like Dreamers

    the Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation

    Klein Halevi, Yossi, 1953-
    Winner - 2014
    BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2013] — 356.166 KLEIN
  • My Promised Land

    the Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

    Shavit, Ari,
    Honorable mention - 2014
    BookNew York : Spiegel & Grau, [2013] — 956.054 SHAVIT
  • The Aleppo Codex

    a True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of An Ancient Bible

    Friedman, Matti
    Winner - 2013
    BookChapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. — 221.44 FRIEDMAN
  • Sacred Trash

    the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

    Hoffman, Adina
    Winner - 2012
    BookNew York : Nextbook : Schocken, [2010] — 290 H699s
  • Honorable mention - 2012
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. — 956.94 S443j