![]() ![]() “My ancestors died in Auschwitz and my Judaism was gone,” Pick said. “Maybe I thought the magic of literature could work its magic here and help open some hearts and minds – I hope so still,” she said.Īlison Pick won the biography/memoir prize for her memoir Between Gods, a moving account of reclaiming her Jewish identity after her family’s post-Holocaust conversion to Christianity. In her brief acceptance speech, Gold said she hoped the novel would bring about some positive change in the world, even though “the idea of trying to effect social change through literature is heretical” to literary critics, she observed. Top fiction prize went to Nora Gold for Fields of Exile, her well-crafted, dystopic novel of campus life when anti-Semitism, via an anti-Israel apartheid campaign, rears its persistent ugly head. ![]() 18 as about 150 people gathered in an auditorium at York University in north Toronto for an awards ceremony to honour nine award-winning books and authors. KAREN MOCK TWITTER PHOTOĪ new chapter of the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards opened on Oct. Edward Trapunski opens at 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. ![]()
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