The winners of the 11th annual Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced.

The annual awards recognize Canadian writing on Jewish themes and subjects.

Winners were selected by a jury comprised of writer and broadcaster Edward Trapunski, author Rona Arato, author and journalist Andrew Cohen, lawyer Mark Freiman, professor Alain Goldschläger, author and publisher Anna Porter, and Sandra Rabinovitch, the founding producer of CBC’s Writers & Company.

The winners will be honoured at an awards ceremony in Toronto on Oct. 26.

This year’s winners are:

The Irving Abella Award in History

• Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History by Simon Rabinovitch (Yale University Press)

Biography

• Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah by Ezra Glinter (Yale University Press)

Memoir

• No Jews Live Here by John Lorinc (Coach House Books)

Fiction

• Songs for the Broken-Hearted by Ayelet Tsabari (HarperCollins)

Poetry

• To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending by Ruth Rifka (Wipf and Stock Publishers)

Children and Youth

• The Light Keeper by Sheila Baslaw and Karen Levine (Second Story Press)

Jewish Culture

• Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror and Beauty by Andrew Kear, ed. (Goose Lane Editions)

Yiddish

• Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language by Anna Miransky (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)