Sophie Brody Award 2025

by American Library Association
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23 books
he Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced its selection for the 2025 Sophie Brody Medal, an annual honor bestowed by the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of RUSA during the Book & Media Awards Virtual Ceremony.
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Winner
Honorable Mention
Noteworthy titles

Becoming Janet

Finding Myself in the Holocaust
Janet Singer Applefield, 2024

A Brilliant Life

An Unforgettable Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz and Learning to Live Again
Rachelle Unreich, 2023

A Dark and Drowning Tide

Allison Saft, 2024

Displaced Persons

Stories
Joan Leegant, 2024

Final Verdict

The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
Tobias Buck, 2024

Green World

A Tragicomic Memoir of Love and Shakespeare
Michelle Ephraim, 2024

The Hebrew Teacher

Maya Arad, 2024

Last Ships from Hamburg The

Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I
Steven Ujifusa, 2023

My Kaddish

A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto
JEFFREY. MASSON, Thérèse C. Masson, 2024

No Road Leading Back

An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
Chris Heath, 2024

Olive Days

A Novel
Jessica Elisheva Emerson, 2024

Replay

Memoir of an Uprooted Family
Jordan Mechner, 2024

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
Margalit Fox, 2024

Unalone

Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis
Jessica Jacobs, 2024

We Are Free to Change the World

Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Lyndsey Stonebridge, 2024

With Darkness Came Stars

A Memoir
Audrey Flack, 2024

Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt

The War Years, 1939-1945
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2023

Your Presence Is Mandatory

A Novel
Sasha Vasilyuk, 2024