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Recipients of the Sophie Brody Award - 2010 (and prior winners)

2010
Jonathon Keats, The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six, Random House

Honorable Mentions:
Thomas Buergenthal, Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Little Brown;
Melvin Konner, The Jewish Body, Schocken;
Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz, Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival, Ecco.

2009

Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Free Press.

Honorable Mentions:
Ron Leshem, Beaufort, Delacorte Press;
A.B. Yehoshua, Friendly Fire: A Duet, Harcourt;
Arie Kaplan, From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, Jewish Publication Society.

2008
Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Classes, Knopf.

Honorable Mentions:
Shalom Auslander, Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir, Riverhead Books;
Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, Norton;
and Joyce Antler, You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother, Oxford University Press.

2007

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, HarperCollins.

Honorable Mentions:
Dara Horn, The World to Come, Norton;
Sandy Tolan, The LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Bloomsbury;
and Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Knopf.

2006

Avner Mandelman, Talking to the Enemy, Seven Stories Press.

Honorable Mentions:
Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch, St. Martin's;
Michael Lavigne, Not Me, Random House;
and Tom Reiss, The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, Random House.