STAN AND HELEN VINE 19th ANNUAL CANADIAN JEWISH BOOK AWARDS
Leah Posluns Theatre - Bathurst Jewish Community Centre
Held at Toronto - Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, June 21
Biography / Memoir: The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize
WINNER: Eric Koch, I Remember the Location Exactly
(Mosaic Press, 2006).
Children's / Youth Literature: The Frances and Samuel Stein
Memorial Award
WINNER: Carol Matas, Turned Away: The World War II
Diary of Devora Bernstein (Scholastic Canada, 2005)
Fiction: The Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award
WINNER: Susan Glickman, The Violin Lover (Goose
Lane Edns, 2006).
Holocaust History / Scholarship: The Canadian Society for
Yad Vashem Award
WINNER: Rosemary Sullivan, Villa Air-Bel (Harper
Collins Canada, 2006).
Holocaust Memoir / Literature: The Jack Chisvin Family Award
WINNER: Bernice Eisenstein, I Was A Child of Holocaust
Survivors (McClelland & Stewart, 2006).
Poetry: The Canadian Jewish News Award
WINNER: Rafi Aaron, Surviving the Censor: The Unspoken
Words of Osip Mandelstam (Seraphim Editions, 2006).
Poetry: The Louis L. Lockshin and Brenda Freedman Memorial
Award
WINNER: Seymour Mayne, September Rain (Mosaic Press,
2005).
Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: The Abe and Fay Bergel
Memorial Award
WINNER: Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language
and Culture in All of its Moods (St. Martin's Press /
HarperCollins Canada, 2005/06).
Yiddish Literature / Translation from Yiddish: The Abraham
and Eve Trapunski Memorial Prize
WINNER: Shirley Kumove, Editor and Translator, Drunk
from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin
(SUNY Press, 2005).
The Special Publisher Recognition Award
WINNER: Second Story Press: Margie Wolfe, President
and Publisher.
Bernard Katz, former head, Special Collections and Library Development
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph
treasurer, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
founding member, Canadian Jewish Book Awards Committee
