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UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES IN JEWISH STUDIES
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May 13, 2012:  For Publication

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2012 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

This year we have two winners of the Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies. 
Samuel Evan Milner, ’13, a junior in Dunster House, won for his essay, “To Exercise Firm Leadership:  Conservative Judaism’s Directives on Civil Rights.” 
Daniel Joseph Frim, ’14, a sophomore in Adams House, won for his essay, “The “Folk,” Folk Knowledge, and Folk Wisdom as Discursive Categories in the Babylonian Talmud.”  This award “is given to the Harvard University student who submits the best essay, feature article, or short story on a Jewish theme.  A tribute to Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995, the prize is sponsored by the Ernest H. Weiner Fund at the American Jewish Committee.”

Leah Reis-Dennis ’13, a junior in Eliot House and Yair Rosenberg, ’12, a senior in Adams House both won this year’s Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.  Leah Reis-Dennis’ entry was “Halfway to Respectability:  A Jewish Prostitute in the Progressive Era U.S.” and Yair Rosenberg’s entry was “Finstein and the Rabbi – Conversations with Chaim Tchernowitz on the Talmud and Zionism.”  The Weinstein Prize, which “is given to the Harvard University student who submits the best undergraduate essay in Jewish studies, was established by Lewis H. Weinstein, A.B. 1927, LL.B. 1930.”

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