2023 Jewish Studies Writing Prize Winners
Seniors
1st Prize
- "Jewish Architecture & Iconography" by by Jules Gabellini (Spector)
Runners-up
- "Analogues, Irony, and Marianism: Rethinking Antisemitism in 'The Prioress's Tale'" by Natalie Grant
- "Hallowed and Hidden: The history of the Bologna Sefer Torah scroll, the oldest complete extant Torah scroll" by Karina Zimmerman
First Years, Sophomores, and Juniors
1st Prize
- "She Stoops to Conquer - Was George Eliot Anti-Semitic?" by Anabelle Meyers '25
Runner-up
- "Josel of Rosheim and the 1543 Tracts of Martin Luther'" by Laila Brustin '25
2022 Jewish Studies Writing Prize Winners
Seniors
1st Prize (Tie)
- "Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Synagogue" by Rose Miller
- "'Shpeak Jewesh, pleashe!': the Mamaloshn (Mother Tongue) of American Jews" by Annika Schafer
First Years, Sophomores, and Juniors
1st Prize
- "Recontextualization of a Roman Arch: The Arch for Titus as a Monument to Jewish Resilience" by Jules Gabellini (Spector) '23
2nd Prize
- "Bachuri Le'an Tisa" by Lorelei Blau '24
2021 Jewish Studies Writing Prize Winners
Seniors
1st Prize
- "New York's Not My Home" by Talia Benheim
2nd Prize (Tie)
- "The Great Synagogue of Vilna" by Sophie Hurwitz
- "Jewishness as an Invisible Identity on The Bachelor" by Rachel Hodes
First Years, Sophomores, and Juniors
1st Prize
- "Voyeurism of Absence: The Ethical Implications of Dark Tourism" by Lily Herold
2nd Prize
- "The Priest Baptized Me Jacob, Jacob" by Jacqueline Roderick