# Sophie Brody Award

The Sophie Brody Award (Sophie Brody Meda) is an annual award of the American Library Association, administered by the Reference and User Services Association RUSA. It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the US. It was established in 2006.
The award is named after Sophie Brody and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.

## Honorees

| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2006 | Avner Mandelman | Talking to the Enemy | Seven Stories Press | Winner |
| 2006 | Michael Wex | Born to Kvetch | St. Martin's Press | Honor |
| 2006 | Michael Lavigne | Not Me | Random House | Honor |
| 2006 | Tom Reiss | The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life | Random House | Honor |
| 2007 | Daniel Mendelsohn | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2007 | Sandy Tolan | LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | Bloomsbury | Honor |
| 2007 | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor |
| 2007 | Dara Horn | The World to Come | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2008 | Nathan Englander | The Ministry of Special Cases | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2008 | Shalom Auslander | Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir | Riverhead Books | Honor |
| 2008 | Diane Ackerman | The Zookeeper's Wife | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2008 | Joyce Antler | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | Oxford University Press | Honor |
| 2009 | Peter Manseau | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | Free Press | Winner |
| 2009 | Ron Leshem | Beaufort | Delacorte Press | Honor |
| 2009 | A.B. Yehoshua | Friendly Fire: A Duet | Mariner Books | Honor |
| 2009 | Arie Kaplan | From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books | Jewish Publication Society | Honor |
| 2010 | Jonathon Keats | The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six | Random House | Winner |
| 2010 | Thomas Buergenthal | A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy | Little Brown | Honor |
| 2010 | Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz | Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival | Ecco Press | Honor |
| 2010 | Melvin Konner | The Jewish Body | Schocken Books | Honor |
| 2011 | Judith Shulevitz | The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time | Random House | Winner |
| 2011 | Eshkol Nevo | Homesick | Dalkey Archive Press | Honor |
| 2012 | Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole | Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza | Schocken Books | Winner |
| 2012 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Jerusalem: the Biography | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor |
| 2012 | Art Spiegelman | MetaMaus | Pantheon Books | Honor |
| 2012 | Erika Dreifus | Quiet Americans: Stories | Last Light Studio Books | Honor |
| 2013 | Matti Friedman | The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible | Algonquin Books | Winner |
| 2013 | Anouk Markovits | I Am Forbidden | Hogarth Press | Honor |
| 2013 | Herman Wouk | The Lawgiver | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 2013 | Nathan Englander | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor |
| 2014 | Yossi Klein Halevi | Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2014 | Ari Shavit | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | Spiegel & Grau | Honor |
| 2014 | Jeremy Dauber | The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye | Schocken Books | Honor |
| 2015 | Boris Fishman | A Replacement Life | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2015 | Ruchama King Feuerman | In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist | The New York Review of Books | Honor |
| 2015 | Stuart Rojstaczer | The Mathematician’s Shiva | Penguin | Honor |
| 2016 | Jim Shepard | The Book of Aron: A Novel | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2016 | Michal Lemberger | After Abel and Other Stories | Prospect Park Books | Honor |
| 2016 | Dan Ephron | Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2016 | Primo Levi | The Complete Works of Primo Levi | Liveright | Honor |
| 2016 | Sasha Abramsky | The House of Twenty Thousand Books | The New York Review of Books | Honor |
| 2017 | Michael Chabon | Moonglow: A Novel | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2017 | Ezra Glinter | Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2017 | Helen Maryles Shankman | In the Land of Armadillos | Charles Scribner's Sons | Honor |
| 2017 | Matti Friedman | Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story | Algonquin Books | Honor |
| 2017 | Abraham Karpinowitz | Vilna My Vilna | Syracuse University Press | Honor |
| 2018 | Ilana Kurshan | If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir | St. Martin’s Press | Winner |
| 2018 | Leonardo Padura | Heretics | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Honor |
| 2018 | Bruce Henderson | Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler | William Morrow | Honor |
| 2019 | Michael Lukas | The Last Watchman of Old Cairo | Spiegel & Grau | Winner |
| 2019 | Ronen Bergman | Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations | Random House | Honor |
| 2019 | Jeremy Dronfield | The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz | Chicago Review Press | Honor |
| 2020 | Thomas Wolf | The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz | Pegasus Books | Winner |
| 2020 | Leah Hager Cohen | Strangers and Cousins | Riverhead Books | Honor |
| 2020 | Daniel Okrent | The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 2020 | Alice Hoffman | The World That We Knew | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 2021 | Yishai Sarid | The Memory Monster | Restless Books | Winner |
| 2021 | Hadley Freeman | House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family | Simon & Schuster | Honor |
| 2021 | Max Gross | The Lost Shtetl | HarperVia | Honor |
| 2021 | A.B Yehoshua | The Tunnel | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Honor |
| 2021 | Ariana Neumann | When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains | Scribner | Honor |
| 2022 | Jane Yolen | Kaddish Before the Holocaust and After: Poems | Holy Cow Press | Winner |
| 2023 | Michael Frank | One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Avid Reader Press | Winner |
| 2024 | James McBride | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | Riverhead | Winner |