Baron Prize in Jewish Studies

Established in 1983 by Jewish-studies pioneers Salo and Jeanette Baron, the Salo and Jeannette Baron Prize in Jewish Studies is awarded every five years to honor the best doctoral dissertation in Jewish studies completed at Columbia University in the preceding four years.

Magda Teter received the prize on April 24, 2002, for her dissertation, "Jews in the Legislation and the Teachings of the Catholic Church in Poland (1648–1772)."

Edward Fram received the prize on October 9, 1996, for his dissertation, "Jewish Law and Social and Economic Realities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Poland."

Elisheva Carlebach received the prize on April 13, 1989, for her dissertation, "Rabbi Moses Hagiz: The Rabbinate and the Pursuit of Heresy in the Late Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Centuries."