The Jewish Public Library is happy to announce that the winner of our 2022 J.I. Segal Dr. Hirsh and Dvora Rosenfeld Award for Yiddish Literature is Michael Felsenbaum for his […]
Winner: J.I. Segal Prize for Yiddish Literature
Category: Prizes
Winner: J.I. Segal Prize for Translation
The Jewish Public Library is happy to announce that the winner of our 2022 J.I. Segal Rosa and David Z”L Finestone Translation Award for a Book on a Jewish Theme […]
Three Questions with Robyn Sarah
“Anyone who has ever felt a vocation for something, pursued it, misplaced it, then tried to summon it again is apt to identify with Sarah’s story.” Ian McGillis in The […]
Two Questions with Pinchas Blitt
A Promise of Sweet Tea is a tale of a family miraculous survival from the terrors of a disintegrating society. In their village in prewar Eastern Europe, young Pinchas Blitt […]
David Homel: Three Short Questions (with Short Answers)
Author David Homel’s memoir, Lunging into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward (Linda Leith Publishing, 2021) was recently short-listed for the 2022 J.I. Segal Award for the Best Quebec Book […]
