Sophie Brody Medal

• Year — Author — Title — Publisher — Result • 2006 — Avner — Talking to the Enemy — Seven Stories Press — Winner • Michael — Born to Kvetch — St. Martin's Press — Honor • Michael — Not Me — Random House • Tom — The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life — Random House • 2007 — Daniel — The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million — HarperCollins — Winner • Sandy — LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East — Bloomsbury — Honor • Markus — The Book Thief — Alfred A. Knopf • Dara — The World to Come — W. W. Norton & Company • 2008 — Nathan — The Ministry of Special Cases — Alfred A. Knopf — Winner • Shalom — Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir — Riverhead Books — Honor • Diane — The Zookeeper's Wife — W. W. Norton & Company • Joyce — You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother — Oxford University Press • 2009 — Peter — Songs for the Butcher's Daughter — Free Press — Winner • Ron — Beaufort — Delacorte Press — Honor • A.B. — Friendly Fire: A Duet — Mariner Books • Arie — From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books — Jewish Publication Society • 2010 — Jonathon — The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six — Random House — Winner • Thomas — A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy — Little Brown — Honor • Clara and Stephen Gantz — Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival — Ecco Press • Melvin — The Jewish Body — Schocken Books • 2011 — Judith — The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time — Random House — Winner • Eshkol — Homesick — Dalkey Archive Press — Honor • 2012 — Adina and Peter Cole — Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza — Schocken Books — Winner • Simon — Jerusalem: the Biography — Alfred A. Knopf — Honor • Art — MetaMaus — Pantheon Books • Erika — Quiet Americans: Stories — Last Light Studio Books • 2013 — Matti — The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible — Algonquin Books — Winner • Anouk — I Am Forbidden — Hogarth Press — Honor • Herman — The Lawgiver — Simon & Schuster • Nathan — What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank — Alfred A. Knopf • 2014 — Yossi — Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation — HarperCollins — Winner • Ari — My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel — Spiegel & Grau — Honor • Jeremy — The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye — Schocken Books • 2015 — Boris — A Replacement Life — HarperCollins — Winner • Ruchama — In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist — The New York Review of Books — Honor • Stuart — The Mathematician’s Shiva — Penguin • 2016 — Jim — The Book of Aron: A Novel — Alfred A. Knopf — Winner • Michal — After Abel and Other Stories — Prospect Park Books — Honor • Dan — Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel — W. W. Norton & Company • Primo — The Complete Works of Primo Levi — Liveright • Sasha — The House of Twenty Thousand Books — The New York Review of Books • 2017 — Michael — Moonglow: A Novel — HarperCollins — Winner • Ezra — Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward — W. W. Norton & Company — Honor • Helen — In the Land of Armadillos — Charles Scribner's Sons • Matti — Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story — Algonquin Books • Abraham — Vilna My Vilna — Syracuse University Press • 2018 — Ilana — If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir — St. Martin’s Press — Winner • Leonardo — Heretics — Farrar, Straus and Giroux — Honor • Bruce — Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler — William Morrow • 2019 — Michael — The Last Watchman of Old Cairo — Spiegel & Grau — Winner • Ronen — Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations — Random House — Honor • Jeremy — The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son’s Fight for Survival in Auschwitz — Chicago Review Press • 2020 — Thomas — The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz — Pegasus Books — Winner • Leah — Strangers and Cousins — Riverhead Books — Honor • Daniel — The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America — Simon & Schuster • Alice — The World That We Knew — Simon & Schuster • 2021 — Yishai — The Memory Monster — Restless Books — Winner • Hadley — House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family — Simon & Schuster — Honor • Max — The Lost Shtetl — HarperVia • A.B — The Tunnel — Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Ariana — When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains — Scribner • 2022 — Jane Yolen — Kaddish Before the Holocaust and After: Poems — Holy Cow Press — Winner • 2023 — Michael Frank — One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World — Avid Reader Press — Winner • 2024 — James McBride — The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store — Riverhead — Winner • 2025 — József Debreczeni — Cold Crematorium — St. Martin’s Press — Winner