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2024 Recipients / First Cycle

Alexandra Birch (Columbia University): Hitler’s Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe

Krista Dalton (Kenyon College): How the Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity

Jacob Daniels (University of Texas at Austin): The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

Amit Levy (University of Haifa): A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel

Eli Rubin (Chabad.org): Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism

Sarah Ellen Zarrow (Western Washington University): Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941

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2023 Recipients

Samantha M. Cooper, American Jews and the Making of the New York Opera Industry, 1880-1940

Debby Koren, Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa

Yosie Levine, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate

Judith Lin, Belonging to Exile: Sephardic Homelands through Poetry

Lucas Wilson, At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives

Polly Zavadivker, A Nation of Refugees: Lost Stories of Russia’s Jews in World War I

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2022 Recipients

Esther Brownsmith, Three Biblical Metaphors of Women as Food: The Cutlet, the Dumpling, and the Vine

Rachel Feldman, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary

Yaniv Feller, The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German Jewish Thought

Rachel Gordan, Postwar Stories: How Judaism Became an American Religion

Miriam Mora, Carrying a Big Schtick: American Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

Joseph Skloot, First Impressions: Sefer Ḥasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing

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2021 Recipients

AJ Berkovitz, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity

Ayelet Brinn, “Even Women”: Gender, Mass Culture, and the Rise of the American Yiddish Press

Sarah Cramsey, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936–1946

Gordon Dale, The Life and Works of Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker

Grace Kessler Overbeke, The First Lady of Laughs: Standing Up for Jean Carroll

Rotem Rozental, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement

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