The winners of the 12th Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced.

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

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

This year’s winners are:

The Irving Abella Award in History

Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe by Matti Friedman (Signal/Penguin Random House Canada)

Contemporary Jewish Issues

The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda by Warren Kinsella (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)

Fiction

Other Evolutions by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia (ECW Press)

Graphic Literature

Vidal by Danila Botha (At Bay Press)

Books For Children and Youth

The House Across the Street by Adam Policzer (Dirty Water Comics)

Holocaust

The Posthumous Landscape: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe by David Kaufman (Figure 1 Publishing)

Yiddish

Boom and Chain: A Yiddish Novel Set in Israel/Palestine by Hanan Ayalti and Adi Mahalel, trans. (Wayne State University Press)

Scholarship

Moroccan Jews in France and Canada and Migrations postcoloniales des Juifs du Maroc vers le Canada et la France by Yolande Cohen (University of Ottawa Press)

The winners will be honoured at an in-person gala ceremony in Toronto on Oct. 25. Admission is free and attendees are welcome with preregistration.

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