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LEARNING 2021
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Congratulations to the 2021
Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Winners
Presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
WINNERS FINALISTS
BIBLICAL STUDIES, RABBINICS, BIBLICAL STUDIES, RABBINICS, AND JEWISH
AND JEWISH HISTORY & CULTURE IN HISTORY & CULTURE IN ANTIQUITY
ANTIQUITY Job: A New Translation
Time in the Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Yale University Press
Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative
EDWARD L. GREENSTEIN, Bar-Ilan University
Cambridge University Press
LYNN KAYE, Brandeis University JEWS AND THE ARTS:
MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, AND VISUAL
Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist
Hebrew Theater
JEWS AND THE ARTS: SUNY Press
MUSIC, PERFORMANCE, AND VISUAL RUTHIE ABELIOVICH, University of Haifa
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten
Jews of Antiquity MODERN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE:
Princeton University Press EUROPE AND ISRAEL
KAREN B. STERN, Brooklyn College The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
Indiana University Press
ALYSSA QUINT, YIVO
SOCIAL SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND FOLKLORE
MODERN JEWISH HISTORY AND Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins
CULTURE: EUROPE AND ISRAEL University of Pennsylvania Press
Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built SARAH S. WILLEN, University of Connecticut
History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable
Jewish Library The Association for Jewish Studies is the largest learned
Yale University Press society and professional organization representing Jewish
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY, Stony Brook University Studies scholars worldwide. Visit associationforjewishstudies.org
to learn more about our work and the upcoming 2021 Jordan
Schnitzer Book Award competition.
Watch interviews with the winners at
SOCIAL SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY, asociationforjewishstudies.org/awards2020
AND FOLKLORE
The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, This book award program has been
and Belonging in America made possible by generous funding
Rutgers University Press from Jordan Schnitzer and Arlene
DAVID S. KOFFMAN, York University Schnitzer through the Harold & Arlene
Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon
Jewish Community Foundation.
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