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UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES IN JEWISH STUDIES
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May 3, 2013:  For Publication

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2013 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.

This the winner of the Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies is Joshua Lipson, ’14, a junior in Winthrop House, won for his essay, “Origins, Myth, and Religious Sociology of the Igbo Jews.”  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.”

Daniel Frim ’14, a junior in Adams House and Leah Reis-Dennis, ’13, a senior in Eliot House both won this year’s Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.  Daniel Frim's entry was “And it was in the Dwelling of Rabbi Joshua bar Perahiah: Notes on the Anti-Demonic Get, a Mythological motif in the Jewish Babylonian Incantation Bowls.” and Leah Reis-Dennis' entry was “New York's 'Bad Girl Problem': Dear and Reform on the Jewish East Side.”  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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