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UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES IN JEWISH STUDIES
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Past Prize Winners:

Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies:

2012 - Samuel Evan Milner: “To Exercise Firm Leadership:  Conservative Judaism’s Directives on Civil Rights”
2012 - Daniel Joseph Frim: “The “Folk,” Folk Knowledge, and Folk Wisdom as Discursive Categories in the Babylonian Talmud”

2011 - Emily Shire: “Interwar Kosher Cookbooks: Recipes for Jewish-American Identity”

2010 - Matthew Klayman: “Historical Memory, Identity, and the Holocaust in the Moroccan Jewish Community”

2009 - Jonathan Gould: "Pluralism, Education, and Acculturation: The Scopes Trial and American Jewish Life in the 1920's"

2008 - Danielle Sassoon: "From Consent to Descent: Ludwig Lewisohn's Anti-Assimilationism as a Product of Historical Change"

2007 - Milo (Mishy) Harman: “What Chutzpah! Yiddish in the New York Times.”

2006 - Peter Ratner: “Becoming Broadway: George S. Kaufman and American Jewish Humor”

2005 - Jessica Marglin: “Receiving the Torah in Greek: Responsibility in Emmanuel Levinas’ ‘Substitution’ and ‘The Temptation of Temptation’”

2004 - Elinathan Ohiomoba:  “A Change is Going to Come” 

2003 - Michael Mitnick:  “A Brief Civil Discussion”

2002 - Jonathan Gribetz:  “A Fresh Vision of Democracy: An Internal Critique of Cultural Pluralism and Zionism In the Thought of Horace M. Kallen”

Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies:

2012 - Leah Reis-Dennis: “Halfway to Respectability:  A Jewish Prostitute in the Progressive Era U.S”
2012 - Yair Rosenberg: "Finstein and the Rabbi – Conversations with Chaim Tchernowitz on the Talmud and Zionism"

2011 - Benjamin Lerner: “On the Origin of the Jewish Defense League: How the Holocaust, Counterculture, and Identity Politics Shaped an Aberrant Jewish Group”

2011 - Avishai Don: “Slaying Goliath at Camp David: An Analysis of Camp David I and Camp David II”

2010 - Michael Pershan: “The Law of Closed Vessels in the Tent of Death: A comparative study of the law in the Temple Scroll and the Mishnah”

2009 - Samuel Jacoby: "Rabbi Abendana's Kuzari: The Story of a Book in 17th Century Amsterdam"
2009 - Jacob Victor (co-winner): "A Sort of Columbus to Those Near-at-Hand: The Cultural Vision of Saul Bellow"

2008 - Mishy Harman: “Theodor Herzl: Aspiring Nobleman, Dreamer, Diplomat”
2008 - Hillary Berkowitz (co-winner): "The Problem of Assimilation in The Goldbergs: Creating a Jewish American Identity in the Postwar United States"

2007 - Adam Strich:  “On the Prohibition of Benefit from Idols and their Paraphernalia”

2006 - Oluwarotimi Okunade: “When Blacks Became Jews: the Polemic Ensuing from the Confrontation of Religion and Race”

2005 - Joshua Suskewicz: “Literature and the Forging of a New Society in I.L. Peretz’s ‘In the Mail Coach’ and ‘Stories’”

2004 - Liora Halperin: “Is it Really Fate?: The ‘Women’s Question’ on the Kibbutz in the Midst of the 1936 Arab Revolt”
2004 - Noah Fabricant (2nd Place): “Liturgical Poetry in Classical and Liberal Judaism”

2003 - Rachel Brodin: “From Hope to Desperation: Jews in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1950”
2003 - Rachel Weinerman (2nd Place): “Comparable Meanings: The Rabbinic Parable in the Writings of S.Y. Agnon, Dvora Baron, and Franz Kafka”

2002 - Michael Gerber: “The Jewish Literary Tradition: The Conceptualization of Jewish History and of Judaism in Harry Austryn Wolfson’s Semitics 9 Lectures, 1926-1927”

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