Awards and Prizes

The Gary H. Plotnick '62 Memorial Prize in Jewish Studies

This prize will be awarded for the best essay or research paper written by a student in any of the courses offered by the Jewish Studies Program during the academic year. The prize may also be awarded for a submission on a Jewish Studies theme that may have been written for a course other than one offered by the Jewish Studies Program. The selection of the prize winner and the amount of the award will be determined by the faculty associated with the program. If there are no qualified student papers in any year, the faculty may decide not to award the prize.

The deadline is the end of spring term.

Plotnick Prize Winners

• 2002
  Sandeep Ramesh, '05 for his paper entitled: "Hybridity or Theoretical Chaos? The Location of Culture or the End of Culture? An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's Framework of Hybridity and Its Drastic Shortcomings in Relation to the Holocaust."

• 2003
  Magdalena Panz '05, for "Three Caskets and the Three Rings: Solving Riddles in the Merchant of Venice and Nathan the Wise."

• 2004
  Samuel Stein '04
  Elisheva M. Hirschman-Green '04

• 2005
  David Kerem for "On the Film rendition of Yorim Kaniuk's Himmo King of Jerasulem."
  Sandeep Ramesh for "Ethics of the Secret: The Law, the Ban, the Bomb."

• 2006
  Sara A. Givner '06, for "Secular Yiddish Culture and Jewish Identity in America: A Study of New York-based Yiddish Schools and Summer Camps, 1930-1960."

• 2007
  Dana S. Altshuler, MALS, for "Imagining and Imaging Anti-Semitism: Jewish Self-Hatred in 20th Century Literature and Culture."
  Ashley B. Graham '07 for "A Jewish American or an Americanized Jew? Eastern European Jews in German Jewish Institutions in New York City, 1880-1914."
  Timothy M. Baker '08 for "Hath Not a Jew...? Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Anti-Judaism from April 1933 to November 1933.

• 2008
  Timothy M. Baker '08 for "All that Glitters: Considering the Spanish Golden Age in Light of its Evidence and its Constructed Histories.
  Jacob L. Schindel '09 for "Secularity and Judaism in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl.'"

Summer Financial Support

The Jewish Studies Program offers summer financial support for students engaged in research on topics related to courses offered in the Jewish Studies Program.

Grants range up to $1000. Letters describing the nature of the research, plus a budget, are due by the first week in May, and should be directed to:

Professor Annelise Orleck
Jewish Studies Program
H.B. 6221

Students who receive funding will be asked to submit a report of their research after it is completed.