2025 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards – Winners Gala

The 2025 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards winners discuss their winning publications on important Jewish themes and diverse subjects, in Fiction, Jewish Culture, Biography, Memoir, Yiddish, the Irving Abella Award in History and other categories. Followed at 4 p.m. by a reception and an opportunity to meet the authors and have them autograph their books.

In person and online. Free, but advance registration is required, via the link at https://cjlawards.ca.

Winning books are the following:
Biography: Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah, by Ezra Glinter (Yale University Press)
Fiction: Songs for the Brokenhearted, by Ayelet Tsabari (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)
History: Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History, by Simon Rabinovitch (Yale University Press)
Jewish Thought & Culture: Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror & Beauty, by Andrew Kear (Goose Lane Editions)
Memoir: No Jews Live Here, by John Lorinc (Coach House Books)
Poetry: To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending, by Ruth Rifka (Wipf and Stock Publishers)
Scholarship: A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979-1989, by Michael Beizer and Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto Press)
Yiddish: Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language, by Anna Miransky (Wipf and Stock)
Youth: The Light Keeper, by Karen Levine and Sheila Baslaw; Alice Priestley, illustrator (Second Story Press)