AJS - Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards

Organization: Association for Jewish Studies

Beginning in 2008, the AJS will award two $5,000 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards on an annual basis. The prizes will recognize outstanding achievement in a total of eight categories-two per year-with subjects rotating over a four-year period. The eight categories are: Philosophy and Jewish Thought; Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Archaeology; Jewish Literature; Pre-modern Jewish History (antiquity through medieval era); Early Modern and Modern Jewish History; Social Science, Anthropology, Linguistics, and Folklore; Jews and the Arts (visual, performance, music); Gender Studies.The two submission categories for 2010 are: Early Modern and Modern Jewish History; Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore

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