We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards ceremony will take place on October 15, 2023 at 2pm at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University.

This year's honorees are:
Biography/Memoir: Moshe Safdie for If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
Children and Youth: Heather Camlot for The Prisoner and the Writer
Fiction: Lori Weber for The Ribbon Leaf
History (The Irving Abella Award): Doris Bergen for Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
Holocaust: Josef Lewkowicz for The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter
Jewish Thought and Culture: Sara Ronis for Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia
Poetry: Gary Barwin for The Most Charming Creatures
Scholarship: Derek Sayer for Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
Yiddish: Rebecca Margolis for Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
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Special Achievement Award: Michael Posner for Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories
Special Citation: Simon-Pierre Lacasse for Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille : regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976

Parking is available at the Student Services Parking Garage (15 James Gillies St, North York, ON).
The Accolade East Building is located immediately outside the York University subway station (TTC line 1) in front of the left hand exit.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-canadian-jewish-literary-awards-tickets-719279342877?aff=oddtdtcreator