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Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule has now been awarded a Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, in History. This is the eighth award Birth, Sex and Abuse has won! The Vine Award is a significant new literary prize in Canada made possible by the Lillian and Norman Glowinsky Family Foundation and presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts. The Vine Awards honour the best Jewish Canadian writing in five categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult/Childr

Birth, Sex and Abuse has won several more awards! They include: The International Book Award: 2016 Winner Recognizing excellence in independent and mainstream publishing. The Eric Hoffer Book Award for Legacy Non-Fiction The Eric Hoffer Book Award was founded at the start of the 21st century to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit. Honors books from small, academic, and micro presses, including self-published offerings. The Eric Hoffer Monta

Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule has now received a third major book award. This time it is the National Jewish Book Award, in Women’s Studies. The National Jewish Book Awards is “ the longest running awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish Literature and is recognized as the most prestigious”. It is granted by the Jewish Book Council , in America. The awards are designed “to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to furth

Birth Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule has been awarded the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Holocaust Literature. The award citation reads: “Though the subject is horrifying, this book offers a remarkable analysis of the Nazi war against women in all its practical and ideological aspects. The focus on the whispered issue of the abuse of childbearing and sexuality in ghettos and concentration camps underscores the malevolence of the Nazis. It is an imp