The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards honors its 2025 winners. Authors discuss their award-winning publications on important Jewish themes and diverse subjects, in categories that include Fiction, Jewish Culture, Biography, Memoir, Yiddish, and the Irving Abella Award in History. 2-4 p.m., followed by a reception and an opportunity to meet the authors and have them autograph their books. Online video link also available.

Free but advance registration is required, via the link on the website (https://cjlawards.ca).

Winners are the following:

Biography: Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah, by Ezra Glinter (Yale University Press)
Fiction: Songs for the Brokenhearted, by Ayelet Tsabari (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)
History: Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History, by Simon Rabinovitch (Yale University Press)
Jewish Thought & Culture: Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror & Beauty, by Andrew Kear (Goose Lane Editions)
Memoir: No Jews Live Here, by John Lorinc (Coach House Books)
Poetry: To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending, by Ruth Rifka (Wipf and Stock Publishers)
Scholarship: A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979-1989, by Michael Beizer and Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto Press)
Yiddish: Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language, by Anna Miransky (Wipf and Stock)
Youth: The Light Keeper, by Karen Levine and Sheila Baslaw; Alice Priestley, illustrator (Second Story Press)

The Awards are administered through The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Miles Nadal JCC. The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards is grateful for the support of its generous donors who have contributed to sustaining Jewish literature and ideas in Canada.