Please join us : J.I. Segal Awards Gala 2012 Please join us in honouring this year's J.I Segal Award recipients at the 2012 J.I. Segal Awards Gala which will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Public Library, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal. Free admission. For information, call 514-345-2627 ext. 3038 or visit www.jewishpubliclibrary.org <http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/> . The Gala will honour the winners of awards in various categories for their creative work on Jewish themes and their contributions to Jewish Education. These prestigious awards are handed out biennially and were established in 1968 to honour the memory of the great Canadian Yiddish poet, J.I. Segal. This year, Mr. David Botwinik will also be recognized for his vital contribution to Jewish music in his book From Holocaust to Life. This year's winners are: Canadian Jewish Studies Award (Sponsored by The Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies): "The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics, and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960's" by Harold Troper (University of Toronto Press) Yaacov Zipper Award in Education: Chaia Libstug English Fiction and Poetry Award on a Jewish Theme (Sponsored by Mona Elaine Adilman): "The Meaning of Children" by Beverly Akerman (Exile Editions) and "Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew." by Stuart Ross (ECW Press) French Literature Award on a Jewish Theme (Sponsored by the Shulamis Yellin Fund): "Trajectoires juives au Quebec" by Pierre Anctil (Presse de L'Université Laval) Translation award for a Book on a Jewish Theme (Sponsored by Marlene and Joel King in memory of Gisia Kisilevsky): "Pinch of Time," by Claude Tatilon, translated by Jacob Homel and David Homel. (Exile Editions) Michael Moskovitz Award for a Film on a Jewish Theme: "I Was the Child of a Holocaust Survivor" Anne Marie Fleming (director - Sleepy Dog Films), Michael Fukushima (producer - National Film Board of Canada) English Non-Fiction Award on a Jewish Theme (Sponsored by Sara and Irwin Tauben): "Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905-1945" by Rebecca Margolis (McGill - Queen's University Press MQUP) Azrieli Institute Award for Best Book in Israel Studies in English or French (Sponsored by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Concordia University): "Land of Desire in Early Zionism" by Boaz Neumann (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England - Schusterman Center for Israel Studies) Cindy Davis Public Relations / Relations publiques Jewish Public Library*Bibliotheque publique juive 1, Carré Cummings Montreal, QC H3W 1M6 514-345-2627 ext/poste 3033 [email protected]
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