A collection co-edited by Dr Axel Stähler, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, has just been awarded the Association of Jewish Libraries’ (AJL) Judaica Reference Award.

The AJL Judaica Reference Award was established to encourage the publication of outstanding Judaica reference books.

The winner this year is The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), co-edited by Axel alongside David Brauner from the University of Reading. The collection was published last year, and includes essays covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction.

The AJL awards committee felt that the work ‘was a most compelling resource that fills a great gap in the field. We were impressed by the diversity of works represented and the sheer scope of this work.’

There will be an awards ceremony on 21 June in Charleston, SC, in America.

For more details of the collection, please see the publisher’s web page.