The winners of the 2010 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards have been announced. Prizes will be awarded at a ceremony in Toronto on May 27. The winners are:
FICTION: Robin McGrath, The Winterhouse (Creative Book Publishing)
HISTORY: Allan Levine, Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba (Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and Heartland Associates)
HOLOCAUST LITERATURE: Michael R. Marrus, Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s (University of Wisconsin Press)
YOUTH LITERATURE: Eva Wiseman, Puppet (Tundra Books)
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR: David Sax, Save the Deli (McClelland & Stewart)
JEWISH THOUGHT AND CULTURE: Kenneth Sherman, What the Furies Bring (The Porcupine’s Quill)
SCHOLARSHIP ON A JEWISH SUBJECT: Jeffrey Veidlinger, Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Indiana University Press)
YIDDISH: Goldie Sigal, Stingy Buzi and King Solomon (Lomir Hofn Press)
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Howard Engel