91亚色 to host event honouring winners of Canadian Jewish Literary Awards
TORONTO, October 24, 2019听鈥撎鼸ight outstanding books have been chosen for this year鈥檚 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Creators of these works will be honoured at a presentation ceremony hosted by 91亚色 on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 2 p.m.
The free public event will be a venue to meet the winning authors, including Professor Emeritus Michael Kater of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
鈥淭he honorees, living around the world, are bestselling Canadian authors and their books reflect the vibrancy of the culture and the appeal of Jewish themes for fiction and non-fiction writing,鈥 said Jury Chair, Edward Trapunski.
The awards program, now in its fifth year, is sponsored in part by 91亚色鈥檚 听. It recognizes Jewish writing in a number of categories: fiction, memoir, biography, history, scholarship, Holocaust, Yiddish, and books for children and youth. History and Humanities Professor Carl S. Ehrlich, editor of the winner in the Holocaust category, is also among the honorees.
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WHEN: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, 2 p.m.
WHERE:听Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, 91亚色 Keele Campus (building number 92 on the听)
WHO:
- Fiction: Jennifer Robson for The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding (HarperCollins)
- Memoir: Ayelet Tsabari for The Art of Leaving (Harper/Collins)
- Biography:听Alexandra Popoff for Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press)
- History:听Matti Friedman for Spies of No Country: Behind Enemy Lines at the Birth of the Israeli Secret Service (Signal/McClelland & Stewart)
- Children/Youth: Anne Dublin for A Cage Without Bars (Second Story Press)
- Yiddish:听Chava Rosenfarb for Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays (McGill-Queen's University Press)
- Scholarship:听Michael Kater for Culture in Nazi Germany (Yale University Press)
- Holocaust:听Leonard and Edith Ehrlich, Carl S. Ehrlich, editor for Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust: Benjamin Murmelstein and the Fate of Viennese Jewry Volume I: Vienna (Texas Tech University Press)
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Media Contacts:
Janice Walls, 91亚色 Media Relations, 416.455.4710, wallsj@yorku.ca
Edward Trapunski, Chair, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards jury, 416.720.4700, info@cjlawards.ca
