The Center for Judaic Studies has awarded Kerry Carnahan (Department of English) with the Cohen Henes Graduate Fellowship for her summer research. Kerry will be working on her PhD dissertation project: a new translation of the Song of Songs accompanied by an exegetical commentary.
Research Awards & Prizes for Faculty and Graduate Students
Call for Submissions: 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards
The Association for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, made possible by funding from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation of Portland, Oregon. These awards recognize and promote outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies and honor scholars whose work embodies the best in the field: rigorous research, theoretical sophistication, innovative methodology, and excellent writing. AJS annually awards one winner and one finalist in each of four categories. The categories rotate over a two-year cycle, for a total of eight categories. Each winner will receive $10,000 and each finalist $2,000.
Deadline: May 23, 2017
The four submission categories for 2017 are:
- Jewish Literature and Linguistics
- Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture
- Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia and Oceania
- Philosophy and Jewish Thought
For more information, you can visit the AJS website or contact Amy Weiss at aweiss@ajs.cjh.org.
Charter Oak Cultural Center – Jewish Play Writing Contest – April 14, 2016
What: Jewish Play Writing ContestWhen: April 14, 2016 @ 7:00 PM
Where: The Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT
An international search for the best unpublished Jewish plays, the Jewish Plays Project has vetted 913 plays from 650 writers worldwide since 2012.
Enjoy – and judge – this year’s top three.
Watch a cast of stellar actors read 20-minute sections from three plays, hear JPP Founder David Winitsky share the latest trends, and then use your cell phone to vote for the play that should continue on.
The ultimate winner gets a workshop production in New York as part of JPP’s OPEN: Festival of New Jewish Theater this June.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – Anneliese Maier Research Award
Nominations for the research award can be made for researchers from abroad from the fields of the humanities and social sciences whose scientific achievements have been internationally recognized in their research area and from whose research collaboration with specialist colleagues in Germany a sustainable contribution is expected towards the further internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany.
The nomination deadline expires on April 30, 2015.
The 2014 Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize
Modern Language Association – US
Deadline: Thursday 1 May, 2014. The 2014 Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize will be awarded to an English translation of a Yiddish literary work published between 2010 and 2013.
Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History
Deadline: Wednesday 30 April, 2014.
The Fraenkel Prize, is awarded for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history in one of The Wiener Library’s fields of interest, including: The History of Europe, Jewish History, The Two World Wars, Antisemitism, Comparative Genocide, Political Extremism.