JL;DR SUMMARY Sasha Vasilyuk's debut novel, "Your Presence Is Mandatory," won the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, drawing from the hidden Jewish identity and wartime experiences of her grandfather, a Jewish soldier in the Red Army during WWII. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.