Canadian Jewish Book Awards

1. Fiction
2. Non-Fiction
3. History
4. Young Adult/Children's Literature
5. Poetry

   List of winners of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards (1989 - 2017)

1989

• Jewish Book Committee Award: Szloma Renglich, When Paupers Dance
• Joseph Tannenbaum Award: Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History

  1990

• Yiddish Literature: Simcha Simkhovitch, Tzaar un Treist
• Excellence in Scholarship on a Canadian Jewish Subject: Michael Greenstein, Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish Canadian Literature
• Creative Writing: J. J. Steinfeld, Forms of Captivity and Escape
• Joseph Tanenbaum Holocaust Book Award: Harold Troper and Morton Weinfeld, Old Wounds: Jews, Ukrainians and the Hunt for Nazi War Criminals in Canada

  1991

• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Rabbinic Scholarship: Martin Lockshin, Rabbi Samuel Ben Meir's Commentary on Genesis
• Non-fiction: Miriam Waddington, Apartment Seven: Essays Selected and New
• Poetry: Kenneth Sherman, Jackson's Point
• Joseph Tanenbaum Holocaust Book Award: Ibolya Grossman, An Ordinary Woman in Extraordinary Times

  1992

• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Biblical and Rabbinic Scholarship: Rabbi Gedalia Felder, Yasodei Yeshurun: A Collection of Comments and Notes on Masechet Avat
• Book Committee Award for Yiddish: Peretz Miransky, A Zemer Fun Demer
• The Book Committee Award for Creative Writing : Morley Torgov, Saint Farb's Day
• The Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Award for Poetry: Simcha Simkhovitch, Selected Poems
• Joseph Tanenbaum Holocaust Book Award: Karolina and, Our Journey in the Valley of Tears
• Literary Criticism: Rachel Feldhay Brenner, A.M.Klein: The Father of Canadian Jewish Literature

  1993

• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Biblical and Rabbinic Scholarship: Rabbi J. Schochet, Mashiach: The Principle of Mashiach and the Messianic in Jewish Law and Tradition
• Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Award for Yiddish: Sam Simchovitz, Stepchild on the Vistula
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Creative Writing: Shel Krakofsky, The Reversible Coat
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Autobiography / Memoir: Eta Fuchs Berk and Gilbert Allardyce, Chosen: A Holocaust Memoir
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Historical Scholarship: Alan Davies, Anti-Semitism in Canada
• Drs Andrzej and Jus Holocaust Literature Award: David Smuschkowitz, Peter Silverman, Peter Smuszkowicz From Victims to Victors
• History Award: Michael R. Marrus, Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman

  1994

• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Biblical and Rabbinic Scholarship: Rabbi Chaim Nussbaum, Semblance and Reality
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award for Scholarship on a Canadian Jewish Subject: Esther Delisle, The Traitor and the Jew
• Nachman Sokol Memorial Award for Canadian Jewish History: Gerald Tulchinsky, Taking Root
• Henry Fuerstenberg Memorial Award for Creative Writing in Poetry: Seymour Mayne, Killing Time
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Creative Writing in Fiction: Abraham Boyarsky, The Number Hall
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Creative Writing in Fiction: Szloma Renglich, In the Heart of Warsaw
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Journal / Memoir: Eli Rubenstein, For You Who Died I Must Live On...Reflections on the March of the Living
• Joseph and Faye Tannenbaum Memorial Award for Cultural History: Ivan Kalmar, The Trotskys, Freuds and Woody Allens
• Drs Andrzej and Jus Holocaust Literature Award: Ariella B. Samson, A Letter from My Father

  1995

• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Torah Scholarship: Rabbi Aaron Levine, To Comfort the Bereaved
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award for Scholarship on a Canadian Jewish Subject: Andre Stein, Hidden Children; Forgotten Survivors of the Holocaust
• Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Award for Original Translation from Yiddish: Sam Simchovitz, Stepchild on the Vistula
• Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Award for Yiddish: Grunia Slutsky-Khon, Don't Look So Sad in the Window
• Henry Fuerstenberg Memorial Award for Creative Writing in Poetry: Peter Ormshaw, The Purity of Arms
• Rachel Bessin Memorial Award for Writing for Young People: Lillian Boraks-Nemetz, The Old Brown Suitcase
• Jewish Book Committee Award for Fiction: Cary Fagan, The Animal's Waltz
• Joseph and Faye Tannenbaum Memorial Award for Holocaust Literature: Jack Kuper, After the Smoke Cleared

  1996

• Betty and Morris Aaron Prize for Biography or Memoir: Eva Brewster, Progeny of Light/Vanished in Darkness
• Joseph and Fay Tannenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History: Sheldon J. Godfrey and Judith C. Godfrey, Search Out the Land: The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America 1740-1867
• Koffler Centre of the Arts President's Award for Jewish History: Erna Paris, The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jew from Spain
• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Biblical Scholarship: Shoshana P. Zolty, And All Your Children Shall Be Learned
• Harry and Florence Topper/ Milton Shier Prize for Original Translation from Yiddish: Frieda Forman, Ethel Raicus, Sarah Silverstein Swartz, Margie Wolfe, Found Treasures- Stories by Yiddish Women Writers
• Henry Fuerstenberg Memorial Award for Creative Writing in Poetry: Shel Krakofsky, Blind Messiah
• Louis Lockshin Memorial Award for Children's Literature: Gary Clement, Just Stay Put
• Rachel Bessin Memorial Award for Writing for Young People: Walter Buchignani, Tell No One Who You Are
• Bessie and Harry Frisch Memorial Award for Jewish Fiction: Agnes Jelhof Jensen, Dilemma
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award for Holocaust Literature: Eric Koch, Hilmar and Odette

  1997

• Joseph and Fay Tannenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History: Yves Lavertu, The Bernonville Affair
• Joseph and Fay Tannenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History: Fraidie Martz, Open Your Hearts
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History: Dr/ Felicia Carmelly, Shattered: 50 Years of Silence
• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Biblical Scholarship: Rabbi Steven Saltzman, A Small Glimmer of Light: Reflections on the Book of Genesis
• Harry and Florence Topper/ Milton Shier Prize for Original Translation from Yiddish: Simcha Simchovitch, A Song Will Remain
• Betty and Morris Aaron Prize for Scholarship on a Canadian Subject: Mervin Butovsky and Ira Robinson, Renewing Our Days
• Henry Fuerstenberg Award for Poetry: Roger Nash, In the Kosher Chow Mein Restaurant
• Louis Lockshin Memorial Award for Creative Writing in Poetry: Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin, Jerusalem
• Rachel Bessin/Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award for Young Adult Fiction: Carol Matas, After the War
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Prize for Fiction: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
• Koffler Centre of the Arts President's Award for Holocaust Literature: Manny Drukier, Carved in Stone

  1998

• Joseph and Fay Tannenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History: Alan Davies and Marilyn Nefsky, How Silent Were the Churches
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History: Isabel Vincent, Hitler's Silent Partners
• Morris Winemaker Prize in Literary Criticism: Norman Ravvin, A House of Words
• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Award for Biblical Scholarship: Martin Lockshin, Rashbaums's Commentary on Exodus
• The Jewish Book Awards Committee Prize for Memoir/Biography: Rosalie Sharp, Irving Abella, Edwin Goodman, Growing Up Jewish
• Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish: Simcha Simchovitch, Funken in Zhar
• Betty and Morris Aaron Prize for Scholarship on a Canadian Subject: Elizabeth Greene, We Who Can Fly
• Henry Fuerstenberg Award for Poetry: Carol Rose, Behind The Blue Gate
• Rachel Bessin/Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award for Young Adult Fiction: Carol Matas, The Garden
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award for Holocaust Literature: Régine Robin, The Wanderer
• Dorothy Schoichet President's Award for Holocaust Literature: Roma Karsh, Endless
• Elie Wiesel Prize in Holocaust Memoir: Elaine Kalman Naves, Journey to Vaja
• Elie Wiesel Prize in Holocaust Memoir: Vera Schiff, Theresienstadt

  1999

• Sam Bojman Memorial Prize in Jewish History: Noah N. Shneidman, Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Vilnius, a Personal Perspective
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History: Allan Levine, Fugitives of the Forest
• Louis L Lockshin Prize for Short Fiction: Nora Gold, Marrow and Other Stories
• Morris Winemaker Prize in Literary Criticism: Kenneth Sherman, Void and Voice: Essays on Literary and Historical Currents
• Dorothy Shiochet President's Award for Biblical and Rabbinic Scholarship: Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, ReVisions: Seeing Torah Through a Feminist Lens
• Henry Fuerstenberg Award for Poetry: Robin McGrath, Escaped Domestics
• Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award for Young Adult Fiction: Irene Watts, Goodbye Marianne
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Lilian Nattel, The River Midnight
• Betty and Morris Aaron Prize for Holocaust Memoir: Elizabeth M. Raab, And Peace Never Came

  2000

• Louis L Lockshin Memorial Prize: Sarah Silberstein Swartz and Margie Wolfe, From Memory to Transformation: Jewish Women's Voices
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History: Bruce Muirhead, Against The Odds: The Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky
• Isaac Frischwasser Prize for Holocaust Memoir: Arthur Schaller, 100 Cigarettes and a Bottle of Vodka
• Dorothy Shoichet President's Prize for Feminist Jewish Literature: Adele Reinhartz, Why Ask My Name? Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative
• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship: Shlomo Zalman Elazer Grafstein, Judaism's Bible: A New and Expanded Translation
• Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish translation: Simcha Simchovitch, The Remnant
• Henry Fuerstenberg and Betty and Morris Aaron Prize for Poetry: Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin, A Rich Garland
• Henry Fuerstenberg and Betty and Morris Aaron Prize for Poetry: Malca Janice Litovitz, To Light, To Water
• Fanny Lidsky Memorial Prize for Young Adult Fiction: Kathy Kacer, Gabi's Dresser
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel
• Abraham and Fay Bergel Prize for Holocaust history: Naomi Kramer and Ronald Headland, The Fallacy of Race and the Shoah

  2001

• Dorothy Shoichet Chairperson's Award for Jewish History: Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth Lies and History
• Louis L Lockshin Memorial Prize: Matt Cohen, Typing: A Life in 26 Keys
• Canadian Jewish Book Awards Committee Prize: Al Waxman, That's What I Am
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History: Frank Bialystok, Delayed Impact: The Holocaust and the Canadian Jewish Community
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer First Novel Award: Michael Kaufman, The Possibility of Dreaming on a Night Without Stars
• Penina Rubinoff Memorial Prize in Biblical Scholarship: Barry Dov Walfish, Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver
• Morris Winemaker Prize in Scholarship on a Jewish Theme: Howard Margolian, Unauthorized Entry: The Truth about Nazi War criminals in Canada 1946-1956
• Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish: Vivian Felsen. Montreal of Yesterday
• Henry Fuerstenberg / Betty and Morris Aaron Poetry Award: Karen Shenfeld, The Law of Return
• Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award for Young Adult Fiction: Irene Watts, Remember Me
• The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History: FC Decoste and Bernard Schwartz, The Holocaust's Ghost
• Laks-Wajsfus Prize in World Jewish Culture: Dorion Liebgott, Art and Tradition
• Abraham and Fay Bergel Prize for Holocaust Memoir: Gitel Donath, My Bones Don't Rest in Auschwitz

  2002

• The Abraham and Fay Bergel Prize in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Morton Weinfeld, Like Everyone Else- But Different
• The Koffler Centre Presidents' Award for Biography/Memoir: William Weintraub, Getting Started
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History: Janine Stingel, Social Discredit
• The Nachman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical Scholarship: Eric Lawee, Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition
• The Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Award in Yiddish: Simcha Simchovich, The Song That Never Died
• The Betty and Morris Aaron-Henry Fuerstenberg Poetry Prize: Joseph Sherman, American Standard
• The Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award in Children's Literature: Cary Fagan, The Market Wedding
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Emma Richler, Sister Crazy
• The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Memoir: Rabbi Erwin Schild. The Very Narrow Bridge

  2003

• The Jack Chisvin Family Award in Holocaust Memoir: Joil Alpern, No One Awaiting Me: Two Brothers Defy Death During the Holocaust in Romania
• The Abraham and Fay Bergel Prize in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Adrienne Kertzner, My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature and the Holocaust
• The Koffler Centre Presidents' Prize in History: Henry T. Aubin, The Rescue of Jerusalem: the Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans in 701 BC
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History: Theresa and Albert Moritz, The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman
• The Nachman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship: James Diamond, Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment
• The Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Award in Yiddish Translation: Pierre Anctil, Le Montreal Juif Entre les Deux Guerres
• The Louis Lockshin - Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Biography/Memoir: Vivian Kaplan, Ten Green Bottles: Vienna to Shanghai, Journey of Hope and Fear
• The Betty and Morris Aaron - Henry Fuerstenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Ron Charach, Dungenessque
• The Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award in Children's Literature: Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Nancy Richler, Your Mouth is Lovely
• The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Studies: N.N. Shneidman. The Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto: Witenberg, Sheinbaum, Gens

  2004

• The Jack Chisvin Family Award in Holocaust Memoir: Henry Schogt, The Curtain: Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Loren Lerner, Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature
• The Nachman Sokol-Chaim Yoel and Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Yiddish/ Translation from Yiddish: Simcha Simchovitch, Dem Netzach Antkegn: Gezamlte Lider and Out of the Abyss: Collected Poems
• The Louis Lockshin - Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Biography/Memoir: Joel Yanofsky, Mordecai & Me: an Appreciation of a Kind
• The Betty and Morris Aaron - Henry and Regina Fuerstenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Merle Nudelman, Borrowed Light
• The Canadian Jewish News Prize in Children's literature: Aubrey Davis, Bagels From Benny
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Kate Taylor, Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
• The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Studies: Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and Irene Watts, Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
• The Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award in Holocaust Literature: Ruth Mandel. How to Tell Your Children about the Holocaust

  2005

• The Jack Chisvin Family Award in Holocaust Memoir: Jack Weiss, Memories, Dreams and Nightmares
• The Nachman Sokol-Chaim Yoel and Mollie Halberstadt Award in Biblical/ Rabbinic Scholarship: Martin Lockshin, Rashbam's Commentary on Deuteronomy
• Abe and Fay Bergel Award in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Richarda Menkis and Norman Ravin, The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader
• Abraham and Eve Trapunski Prize in Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish: Chava Rosenfarb and Goldie Morgentaler, Survivors
• The Presidents' Award in History: Warren Bass, Support Any Friend
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History: Jill Culiner, Finding Home
• Jack Chisvin Family Award in Biography/Memoir: James Laxer, Red Diaper Baby
• Canadian Jewish News Prize in Poetry: Isa Milman, Between the Doorposts
• Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Children's Literature: Anne Dublin, Bobbie Rosenfeld
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories
• The Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Memoir: Elaine K Naves, Shoshanna's Story
• The Betty and Morris Aaron, Isaac Frischwasser, Louis L.Lockshin Memorial Prize in Holocaust Literature: Lisa Appignanesi. The Memory Man

  2006

• The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History: Sara Ginaite-Rubinson, Resistance and Survival
• The Jack Chisvin Family Award in Holocaust Memoir: Jack Weiss, Memories, Dreams and Nightmares
• The Nachman Sokol-Chaim Yoel and Mollie Halberstadt Award in Biblical/ Rabbinic Scholarship: Eliezer Segal, From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia
• Abe and Fay Bergel Award in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Richarda Menkis and Norman Ravin, The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader
• Abraham and Eve Trapunski Prize in Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish: Mervin Butovsky and Ode Garfinkle, The Journals of Yaacov Zipper 1950-82
• The Isaac Frischwasser - Louis L. Lockshin Memorial Award in Poetry: Renee Norman, True Confessions
• The Louis L. Lockshin and Brenda Freedman Memorial Prize in Poetry: Seymour Mayne, September Rain
• Canadian Jewish News Award in Biography/Memoir: Michael Posner, The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler, an Oral Biography
• Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Youth Literature: Lynne Kositsky, The Thought of High Windows
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Edeet Ravel, A Wall of Light
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Memoir and Literature: Henia Reinhartz, Bits and Pieces

  2007

• The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History: Rosemary Sullivan, Villa Air-Bel
• The Jack Chisvin Family Award in Holocaust Memoir/Literature: Bernice Eisenstein, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors
• Abe and Fay Bergel Award in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Michael Wex, Born To Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
• Abraham and Eve Trapunski Prize in Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish: Shirley Kumove, Drunk From the Bitter Truth; The Poems of Anna Margolin
• Canadian Jewish News Award in Poetry: Rafi Aaron, Surviving the Censor: The Unspoken Words of Osip Mandelstam
• Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Youth Literature: Carol Matas, Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devora Bernstein
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: Susan Glickman, The Violin Lover
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Memoir and Literature: Henia Reinhartz, Bits and Pieces
• The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Biography/Memoir: Eric Koch, I Remember the Location - Exactly

  2008

• Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in History: Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezsö Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
• Abe and Fay Bergel Award in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: James Diamond, Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider
• Abraham and Eve Trapunski Prize in Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish: Marc Miller, Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America
• Canadian Jewish News Award in Poetry: Ruth Panofsky, Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices
• Frances and Samuel Stein Memorial Award in Youth Literature: Tina Grimberg, Out of Line: Growing up Soviet
• Martin and Beatrice Fischer Award in Fiction: John Miller, A Sharp Intake of Breath
• Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust Memoir and Literature: Henia Reinhartz, Bits and Pieces
• Samuel and Rose Cohen Memorial Award in Biography/Memoir: Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust

  2009

• Biography and Memoir: Peter C. Newman, Izzy: the Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada's Media Mogul
• Fiction: Ami Sands Brodoff, The White Space Between
• History: Barrie Wilson, How Jesus Became Christian
• Holocaust Literature: Joseph Kertes, Gratitude
• Poetry: Isa Milman, Prairie Kaddish
• Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Reinhold Kramer, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain
• Yiddish Literature: David G. Roskies, Yiddishlands: A Memoir
• Youth Literature: Kathy Kacer, The Diary of Laura's Twin

  2010

• Fiction: Robin McGrath, The Winterhouse
• History: Allan Levine, Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba
• Holocaust Literature: Michael R. Marrus, Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s
• Youth Literature: Eva Wiseman, Puppet
• Biography and Memoir: David Sax, Save the Deli
• Jewish Thought and Culture: Kenneth Sherman, What the Furies Bring
• Scholarship on a Jewish Subject: Jeffrey Veidlinger, Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire
• Yiddish Literature: Goldie Sigal, Stingy Buzi and King Solomon
• Special Achievement Award: Howard Engel

  2011

• Fiction: Alison Pick, Far to Go
• Politics and History: Tarek Fatah, The Jew Is Not My Enemy
• Holocaust Literature: Robert Eli Rubinstein, An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada
• Biography and Memoir: Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life and Times
• Scholarship: Harold Troper, The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics, and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s
• Youth Literature: Judie Oron, Cry of the Giraffe

  2012

• Biography: Fraidie Martz and Andrew Wilson, A Fiery Soul: The Life and Theatrical Times of John Hirsch
• Fiction: David Bezmozgis, The Free World
• History: Denis Vaugeois, Les Premiers Juifs d'Amérique 1760-1860: L'extraordinaire histoire de la famille Hart
• Holocaust Literature: Eli Pfefferkorn, The Muselmann at the Water Cooler
• Memoir: Richard Marceau, Juif, Une histoire québécoise
• Poetry: S. Weilbach, Singing from the Darktime: A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose
• Scholarship: Kalman Weiser, Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland
• Yiddish Literature: Rebecca Margolis, Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905-1945
• Youth Literature: Lesley Simpson, Yuvi's Candy Tree

  2013

• Biography: Aili and Andres McConnon, Road to Valour: A True Story of World War II Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
• Fiction: Nancy Richler, The Imposter Bride
• History: Matti Friedman, The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
• Holocaust Literature: Julija Šukys, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite
• Poetry: Isa Milman, Something Small To Carry Home
• Scholarship: L. Ruth Klein, Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War
• Yiddish: Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal 1869-1954, Un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu
• Children and Youth Literature: Sharon E. McKay, Enemy Territory

  2014

• Holocaust Literature: Ken Setterington, Branded by the Pink Triangle
• Fiction: Kenneth Bonert, The Lion Seeker
• Yiddish: Frieda Forman, The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers
• Jewish Thought and Culture: Josh Lambert, Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture
• Poetry: Anne Michaels, Poetry, and Bernice Eisenstein, Portraits, Correspondences
• Scholarship: Albert Kaganovitch, The Long Life and Swift Death of the Jewish Reschitsa
• Biography/Memoir: Renée Levine Melammed, An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
• Youth: Carol Matas, Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1948
• History: Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Shadow of the Shtetl

  2015 (as the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards)

• Novel: Nora Gold, Fields of Exile.
• Scholarship: James A. Diamond, Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon.
• Biography/Memoir: Alison Pick, Between Gods: A Memoir.
• History: Joseph Hodes, From India to Israel: Identity, Immigration, and the Struggle for Religious Equality.
• Youth Literature: Suri Rosen, Playing with Matches.
• Poetry: Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me.
• Holocaust Literature: Beverley Chalmers, Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule.
• Short Fiction: Mireille Silcoff, Chez l'Arabe.
• Yiddish: Ruth Panofsky, The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition.

  2016

• Novel: Sigal Samuel, The Mystics of Mile End.
• Scholarship: Sarah Phillips Casteel, Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination.
• Biography/Memoir: Howard Akler, Men of Action.
• History: Michael Marrus, Lessons of the Holocaust.
• Youth Literature: Anne Dublin, 44 Hours or Strike!.
• Holocaust Literature: Agata Tuszyńska, A Family History of Fear.
• Yiddish: Helen Mintz, translator, Vilna, My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz.
• Jewish Thought and Culture: Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz and Amira Bojadzija-Dan, editors, H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy.

  2017

• Novel: Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates.
• Scholarship: Joel Hecker, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol 11.
• Biography/Memoir: Matti Friedman, '.
• History: Roger Frie, Not In My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust.
• Youth Literature: Eva Wiseman, Another Me.
• Poetry: Stuart Ross, A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent.
• Holocaust Literature: Myrna Goldenberg, editor, Before All Memory Is Lost: Women's Voices from the Holocaust.
• Yiddish: Rachel Seelig, Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature Between East and West 1919-1933.
• Jewish Thought and Culture': Chantal Ringuet and Gérard Rabinovitch, editors, Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen''.