The Sophie Brody Award <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/258/apply__;!!KGKeukY!nNs_P600kAFJ5OvTwBoBtwOiPcw5j1k5prVgzHX-hR1iaQ5fcIwmQwX4xYFbxKrTT8s$ > is given by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association for the best Jewish book for the general reader. AJL has one permanent position on Sophie Brody, and Rachel Kamin is the current AJL representative. I am also on Sophie Brody as Chair of the Jewish Information Committee of the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table. If you are interested in serving on the award committee, you must be a RUSA member. There's lots of good reasons to join:
- The books are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels, so you'll be reading a large cross-section of new Jewish books. - You get a copy of all the books considered for the award, which is about 150 new books a year. I donate mine to my library and other libraries that can use them. - You get to discuss books with interesting people. - It's a lot of reading (50+ books/year) and the last 6-8 weeks are very intense, but serving on the committee is very rewarding and fulfilling. If you're a RUSA member, I really hope you'll join the award committee. They need some new members; I was on the committee as the AJL rep for 5 years and then off for 4, and there are only 2 new faces from the last time I was on the committee, and one of those is Rachel. Contact Rachel <rachelka...@gmail.com>or me <emilyanneberg...@gmail.com> if you have any questions. Thanks, Emily Emily Bergman AJL Co-Liaison to ALA emilyanneberg...@gmail.com
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