Nazi hunters’ memoir wins top national Jewish book award
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two prominent French Nazi hunters, won the Jewish Book Council’s top national book award yesterday.
French-language history of Quebec Jews wins J.I. Segal Award
Pierre Anctil is the winner of a 2018 J.I. Segal Award for best book in English or French, for his book, Histoire des Juifs du Québec.
The late Gerry Weinstein among Citizenship Medal recipients
Gerry Weinstein, a man who devoted his life to helping those in need, was posthumously honoured by the national assembly with a Citizenship Medal bestowed by the D’Arcy McGee riding.
Giller winner is a convoluted Moebus strip of a novel
Michael Redhill told the Toronto Star he had only $411 in his bank when he won the Scotiabank Giller Award for his novel, Bellevue Square. Redhill is strong on sense of place and gives an excellent rendering of the ethnically and socially diverse population of Bellevue Square.
