Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust is named Jewish book of the year
James McBride also won two National Jewish Book Awards for fiction for his novel “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,” a sprawling whodunit centering on a small Pennsylvania town.
Israeli soldiers look up at pictures of victims of the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day starting this evening, at the Hall of Names, in Jerusalem April 27, 2022.(photo credit: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA