Thanks to the generosity of Taube Philanthropies, the Taube Prizes for Student Writing in Hebrew & Jewish Studies were offered for the fourth time this year. We received many excellent submissions from postgraduate students across numerous areas of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and the committee selected the following recipients for the prize:
Maxwell Benster, ‘Contemplation’
Oliver Geffen Obregon, ‘Reading Between the Lines: The Task of the Translator, Scripture, and The Word of God’
Hannah Scott-Ravikumar, ‘”The Travelling Merchants I Saw In Poland”: Central European Connections to Polish Jews in the Late Twelfth Century’
In addition, the committee bestowed high commendations upon the following applicants:
Caleb Klein, ‘Hebrew Manuscripts in the Far Reaches of Diaspora: The Development of Anglo-Ashkenazi Square Script and the Dating of CCC MS. 133’
Leah Schreiber, ‘Hasidic Life in the Warsaw Ghetto: Religious Values under Extreme Conditions and the Roots of Post-Holocaust Hasidism’
Yovella Young, ‘”His Lips are Lilies, Dripping Liquid Myrrh”: Mixing Metaphor in Biblical Poetry’