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Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards

Made possible by funding from Jordan Schnitzer through the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, the Association for Jewish Studies is proud to award eight prizes this year (four winners and four finalists) for the annual Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize.

The categories in the 2024 competition were Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Ancient Jewish History and Culture; Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, Visual; Modern Jewish History: Europe and Israel; and Social Sciences, Anthropology, and Folklore. Books published in 2022 and 2023 by AJS members were eligible for submission. Each category was judged by a committee of expert scholars in their field who chose this year’s winners and finalists. Winners receive a $10,000 prize and Finalists receive a $2,500 prize.

We wish a hearty congratulations to this year’s awardees.

2024 WINNERS

In the category of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Ancient Jewish History and Culture

Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture
Mira Balberg
University of California Press

In the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, Visual

Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives
Victoria Aarons
Wayne State University Press

In the category of Modern Jewish History: Europe and Israel

The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century
Matthias Lehmann
Stanford University Press

In the category of Social Sciences, Anthropology, and Folklore

The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land
Lea Taragin-Zeller
New York University Press

FINALISTS

In the category of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Ancient Jewish History and Culture

Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity
Gregg Gardner
University of California Press

In the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, Visual

Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission
Rebecca Margolis
McGill-Queen’s University Press

In the category of Modern Jewish History: Europe and Israel

Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
Ari Joskowicz
Princeton University Press

In the category of Social Sciences, Anthropology, and Folklore

Meat Matters: Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel
Hagar Salamon
Indiana University Press


For further information, contact Amy Weiss, Senior Grants and Professional Development Manager, at aweiss@associationforjewishstudies.org.

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