2011 Canadian Jewish Book Awards winners

Alison Pick's novel Far to Go, about a Jewish Czech family in the months preceding World War Two, and Moredcai: The Life and Times, Charles Foran's biography of the late Canadian novelist, are among the winners of the 2011 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards. Pick won in the Fiction category, while Foran won in Biography and Memoir. Tarek Fatah won the award for Politics and History for The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism. Robert Eli Rubinstein won in the Holocaust Literature category for An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life In Canada while Harold Troper's The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics, and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s won for Scholarship. The winner of the Youth Literature category was Judie Oron for Cry of the Giraffe - National Post