Jewish Studies Program

Award Winners

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Jewish Studies Award Winners 2010-11

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
Dina Bleckmen, for research in New York

Channah Dulin, for research in Israel

Jacob Eder, for conference participation

Rachel Ellis, for statistical software

David Zvi Epstein, for AJS conference in Boston

Rebecca Freedman, for course in Israel

Sonia Gollance, for Krakow Jewish Culture Festival

Jason Goodman, for research in Poland

Itay Greenspan, for research in Israel

Marc Herman, for Arabic language study in Israel

Konstanze Kunst, for research in Czech Republic/Germany

Akhmad Sahal, for participation in two conferences

Rachel Schonwetter, for research at American Jewish Archives

Ariel Stein, for research in Baltimore

Anna Vinogradov, for research in New York and Philadelphia

Kerry Wallach, for conference participation in London

William Zimmerle, for research in Israel

The Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner:

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for excellence in advanced Hebrew studies (replaces the The B'nai Zion Award)

Winner: David A. Stark

The Moshe Greenberg Prize for Excellence in Hebrew
awarded to a graduating senior who began the study of Hebrew at Penn and who shows exceptional proficiency in the language

Winner: Linda S. Castillo

The Merle Saunders Schaff Memorial Awards
awarded for the best essay demonstrating creative thinking on any subject related to the archaeology of Ancient Israel or to Judaic religious thought through the Middle Ages

Winner:

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner:

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2009-10

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
David Shyovitz, conference participation in Arizona

Tammy Jacobowitz, for AJS conference participation

Arielle Kane, for research in Tunisia

Leanne Gale, for research in Israel

Eitan Adler, for research in Israel

Mark Andrew Lester, for research in Israel

Yuval Orr, for research in Israel

Ariel Stein, for research in Israel

Stephanie Winer, for research in Israel

Rachel Eisenstadt, for Yiddish language and culture immersion

Andrew Berns, for research in Italy

Matthew Handelman, for dissertation research

Marc Herman, for Arabic language study at CUNY

Akhmad Sahal, for Hebrew ulpan

Rebecca Cutler, for participation in AIS conference in Toronto

The Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: Amanda Sugarman

Honorable Mention: John Henry Whitham

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for excellence in advanced Hebrew studies (replaces the The B'nai Zion Award)

Winner: Pamela R. Kaplan

The Moshe Greenberg Prize for Excellence in Hebrew
awarded to a graduating senior who began the study of Hebrew at Penn and who shows exceptional proficiency in the language

Winner: J. Elliott Thomasson

Winner: Amanda Sugarman

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: John Henry Whitham

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2008-09

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
Aviad Eilam, for research in Israel

Benjamin Fisher, for research in Israel

Jacob Eder, for research in Germany

Cornelia Aust, for conference participation in Jerusalem

Andrew Berns, for research in Israel

Ellie Schainker, for travel to two conferences in London and Budapest

Dana Hercbergs, for conference participation in Denmark

Alexandra Leavy, for research in Israel

Tammy Jacobowitz, for conference participation

Emma Morgenstern, for research in Greece

Stephanie Winer, for research in Israel

Andrew Kibert, for research in the Middle East

Mark Andrew Lester, for research in Israel

The Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: Jonathan Klatt

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for excellence in advanced Hebrew studies (replaces the The B'nai Zion Award)

Winner: Tali Yahalom

The Moshe Greenberg Prize for Excellence in Hebrew
awarded to a graduating senior who began the study of Hebrew at Penn and who shows exceptional proficiency in the language

Winner: Marissa Steinberg

Winner: Yael Landman

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Drew Feith Tye

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2007-08

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
Hannah Lau, for research on her senior thesis

Daniel Ross, for research for his senior thesis

Cornelia Aust, for travel to AJS conference in Toronto to present her paper, and for research abroad for her dissertation

Rebecca Cutler, for research for her dissertation

Dana Hercbergs, for research abroad for her dissertation

Matthew Richman, for tuition costs for summer immersion program in Russian language at Middlebury College

David Shyovitz, for summer study in Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University's Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem

The Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: David Faleck

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for excellence in advanced Hebrew studies (replaces the The B'nai Zion Award)

Winner: Julia A. Paris

The Moshe Greenberg Prize for Excellence in Hebrew
awarded to a graduating senior who began the study of Hebrew at Penn and who shows exceptional proficiency in the language

Winner: Benjamin M. Mundel

Winner: Hart Levine, Yael Landman, and David Shyovitz

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Gabriela Skwara

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2006-07

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
Rachel Adler, for research on her senior honors thesis on miqvah ritual

Jessica Swiatlo, for research in Israel on Holocaust film and literature

Andrew Berns, for research in Jerusalem

Todd Carmody, for archival research on Charles Reznikoff in San Diego

Yaacob Dweck, for dissertation research in London and Jerusalem

Dana Hercbergs, for dissertation research in Jerusalem

Jonathan Seif, for dissertation research in Jerusalem

From the Language Study Support Fund: Kerry Wallach, for Yiddish language study at YIVO

The Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: Sarah Breger

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for excellence in advanced Hebrew studies (replaces the The B'nai Zion Award)

Winner: Dorit J. Price-Levine

The Moshe Greenberg Prize for Excellence in Hebrew
awarded to a graduating senior who began the study of Hebrew at Penn and who shows exceptional proficiency in the language

Winner: David B. Kriesman

Winner: V. Kerry Inman

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Marissa Steinberg

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2005-06

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
Rachel Adler, for archaeological research in Israel

Sarah Breger, for research on a senior thesis

Livia Levine, for research in Israel

Yuval Masory, for language study in Israel

Sharon Wolf, for research in Israel on a senior thesis on the psychology of land

Rebecca Cutler, for travel costs for dissertation research and AAJR grad student seminar

Jennifer Glaser, for travel to conferences to deliver papers

Tammy Jacobowitz , for dissertation research

Julie Lieber, for travel costs for research dissertation

Ellie Schainker, for archival research in Jerusalem

David Shyovitz, for travel to the Association for Jewish Studies conference in D.C.

Gabriela Skwara , for tuition costs for the YIVO language program

Kerry Wallach, for travel and research costs in Germany and Austria

Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: Jay Solomon

Merle Saunders Schaff Memorial Awards
awarded for the best essay demonstrating creative thinking on any subject related to the archaeology of Ancient Israel or to Judaic religious thought through the Middle Ages

Winner: David Faleck, V. K. Inman, and Doug Finkbeiner

The B'nai Zion Award
awarded to a graduating senior who shows exceptional proficiency in Hebrew language

Winner:Daniel Granowitz

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for Excellence in Advanced Hebrew Studies

Winner: Sharon Wolf

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Modessa Jacobs

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2004-05

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies

Winners:
Elizabeth Rosado, for an excavation in Israel

Sarah Breger, for Haggadot archive research in NY and DC

Jay Solomon, for research at London and US archives

Zachary Silver, for research in NY archives

Benjamin Fisher, for Spanish language study at Penn

Rebecca Cutler, to attend a Hebrew ulpan at Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Andrew Berns, for Italian language study and archive research in Italy

Cornelia Aust, for research in Berlin's archives

Uri Horesh, for Arabic-Hebrew linguistics research in Jaffa, Israel and Ramallah, Palestine

Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: Zachary Silver

Winner: Douglas Finkbeiner

The B'nai Zion Award
awarded to a graduating senior who shows exceptional proficiency in Hebrew language

Winner: Andrea M. Brem

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for Excellence in Advanced Hebrew Studies

Winner: Daniel Saat

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Jonathan Ludmir

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2003-04

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies:

Winners:
Erin Springer, for travel to Boston for History thesis research project

Andrew Joseph, for travel to France archives and libraries for research on the question, "Why did France turn its back on Israel in 1967?"

Diana Claybon, for travel to Rome to do honors research in the Papal, Roman and Jewish archives.

Marla Dunn, for travel to Yale University to view the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

Neha Kamani, for travel to Israel for an excavation project at Kibbutz Yotvata.

Sharon Vance, for doctoral research on Sol La Sadica: Historic Figure, Saint, Literary Persona

Anne Oravetz, for preliminary dissertation research in Recife, Brazil on the newly reconstructed Zur Israel synagogue and for language study.

Uri Horesh, for study of variation in gender marking in Modern Hebrew numerals: Follow-up (Paper presentation at Workshop on Numerals of the World's Languages)

Shawn Zelig Aster, for travel to Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference in Boston to deliver a paper on "Religious Practice in the Kingdom of Israel During the Eighth Century"

Rebecca Cutler , for Summer Yiddish study at the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture

Naftali Cohn, for tuition to study German language at the Graduate Center of the City of University of New York.

Sigrid Peterson, for travel to Duke University for the NEH Summer Seminar on Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity

Anne Oravetz, for travel to Amsterdam for research on Isaac Aboab da Fonseca of Amsterdam and his intellectual circle: their interactions with Dutch Calvanists and their kabbalistic eschatology.

Francesca Bregoli, for travel to New York City Libraries for research on "Mediterranean Enlightenment: Jewish culture in Livorno-Pisa, 1737-1790."

Julie Lieber, for travel to Israel for research on Jewish women in turn of the century Vienna.

Yaacob Dweck, for travel to the Goethe Institute in Berlin to study German language.

Shalom Holtz, for data collection on Neo-Babylonian legal proceedings.

Alex Novikoff, for travel to Madrid to deliver a paper at the first annual Convivencia Conference on "Jews and Conversos in Spanish History 1248-1700."

Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award
awarded for the best student in Jewish Studies

Winner: Sarah Koplik

Winners:
Alicia Oltuski
Hrisoula Gatzogiannis
Sarah Koplik
L. Caroline Kelly
Sigrid Peterson

The B'nai Zion Award
awarded to a graduating senior who shows exceptional proficiency in Hebrew language

Winner: Adina T. Zoltan

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for Excellence in Advanced Hebrew Studies

Winner: Sharon Mori

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Jacob Shabason

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2002-03

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies:

Winners:
Jacob Cytryn, for research on Jewish informal education

Alison Silber, for travel to Morroco for language study

David Shyovitz, for research on Rabbi Jacob Sasportas

Matthew Rutz, for travel to London

Elli Schainker, for tuition to study Russian language

Moshe Simon, for travel to Philadelphia for Lehmann Workshop

Tamar Kaplan, for travel to Israel

Naftali Cohn, for tuition to study Greek language

Sean McGrew, for data collection on Hebrew language learning

Winner:
David Goldstein
Andrea Miller
Naftali Cohn
Debra J. Bucher

The B'nai Zion Award
awarded to a graduating senior who shows exceptional proficiency in Hebrew language

Winner: Mark Ginsberg

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for Excellence in Advanced Hebrew Studies

Winner:

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Micah Liben

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2001-02

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies:

Winners:
Yael Berdugo, for research on Judaism and Christianity

Jessica Pomerantz, for research on Judeo-Spanish in Sephardic culture

Albert Sultan, for research on Judaism and art

Shawn Aster, for travel to Washington, D.C. for AJS conference

Rebecca Kobrin, for travel to New York and Boston

Uri Horesh, for travel to Israel

Tamar Kaplan, for travel to St. Petersburg

Francesca Bregoli, for travel to Jerusalem Summer School at Hebrew University

Alexandra Rothstein, for travel to Jerusalem Summer School at Hebrew University

Anne Oravetz, for travel to Jerusalem Summer School at Hebrew University

Julie Lieber, for travel to Jerusalem Summer School at Hebrew University

Sigrid Peterson, for travel to Berlin

Winner:
Jason Friess
William Gruen
Todd Krulak
Tennyson Wellman

The B'nai Zion Award
awarded to a graduating senior who shows exceptional proficiency in Hebrew language

Winner: Lauren Gross

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: David Wilderman

Jewish Studies Award Winners 2000-01

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Phillip E. Goldfein Scholarship Fund and the Ray and Ruth Brenner awards in Jewish Studies:

Winners:
Jason Chinitz, for research in Yiddish culture

Dori Kamlet, for travel to study in Israel

Amara Levine, for research on women in Orthodox Judaism

Jesse Rubenfeld, for research on modern Israeli music

Sara Tillinger, for research on women's Jewish education

Shira Alpert, for research on Palestinian and Israeli youth

Idana Goldberg, travel to Germany

Julie Lieber, travel to Germany

Oren Meyers, research on Israeli journalism

Doree Shafrir, travel to Germany

Shawn Zelig Aster, travel to World Congress of Jewish Studies and to deliver a paper

Tammy Jacobowitz, travel to World Congress of Jewish Studies

Alexandra Ariel Rothstein, travel to World Congress of Jewish Studies

Winner:
Uriel E. Cohen
Angelika Zilberman
Amara Levine
Moshe Simon
Abigail Dauber

The B'nai Zion Award
awarded to a graduating senior who shows exceptional proficiency in Hebrew language

Winner: Adam Buckstein

The Judah Goldin Memorial Prize
awarded for Excellence in Advanced Hebrew Studies

Winner:

The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring Prize
awarded for excellence in Yiddish Studies

Winner: Jason Chinitz

Franco-Ashkenaz Mahzor for Yom Kippur. Fol. 21 verso, beginning of the hymn "Melekh", illuminated.

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