Book award season is just about over. The awards have been announced; it’s only the celebration that’s left.

Here are some highlights of award-winning Jewish interest books available in the library:

From the Jewish Book Council:

BIO      Hacohen          To Repair a Broken World: the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah

FIC       Chakrabarti     A Play for the End of the World

FIC       Cohen              The Netanyahus: an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family

FIC       Wecker            The Hidden Palace

J942     Churnin           Dear Mr. Dickens

300      Horn                People Love Dead Jews: reports from a haunted present

940.44 Batalion           The Light of Days: the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler’s ghettos.

For all the National Jewish Book Award books click here https://jewishbookcouncil.org/awards

From the Association of Jewish Libraries:

J243.2  Kusel                The Passover Guest

JFIC      Hiranandani    How to Find What You’re not Looking for

YAFIC   Polydoros        The City Beautiful

For Honor and other recommended Sydney Taylor Award Books click here https://jewishlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-STBA-Press-Release.pdf

American Library Association Sophie Brody Award

FIC       Sarid    The Memory Monster

Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize

Fic           Krauss                   To Be a Man

BIO         DeWaal                 Letters to Camondo

BIO         Sebba                   Ethel Rosenberg

Canadian Jewish Book Awards

940.57   Kaiser    Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure

JBIO       Samuel Osnat and Her Dove