Rebecca Kobrin (Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Co-Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies) and historian Mae Ngai’s “Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas” won two prizes as part of the Cartographic and Geographic Information Society of the Smithsonian Institution’s annual competition. They won Best in Digital/Interactive Map and Best in Show.
Dr. Tamar Menashe (Ph.D. ‘21) is the recipient of the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize. Tamar’s dissertation reconstructs Ashkenazi and Sephardi German Jews' intensive pursuit of civil and religious rights before Germany's Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, the Imperial Chamber Court) in the context of the wide-ranging religious and legal reforms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The dissertation reveals that the study of Jews' surprising strategies of interconnecting law and religion in defense of themselves and their religious laws promoted Jews' civil rights in radical ways, and attained a de facto status of imperial citizenship for Ashkenazi and Sephardi-Portugese Jews.
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