The New York Review of Books - USA - 16.12.2021

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Congratulations to the 2021


Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Winners


Presented by the Association for Jewish Studies


JEWISH LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of
Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine

Harvard University Press
AMELIA M. GLASER,
University of California, San Diego

MODERN JEWISH HISTORY AND
CULTURE: AFRICA, AMERICAS, ASIA,
AND OCEANIA
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration
and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora

Stanford University Press
DEVI MAYS, University of Michigan

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN
JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a
Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance
Tells Us about the Making of European
Commercial Society

Princeton University Press
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO,
Institute for Advanced Study

PHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH THOUGHT
Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality

University of Pennsylvania Press
ANNABEL HERZOG, University of Haifa

WINNERS FINALISTS


JEWISH LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish
Folk Ethnographies

Wayne State University Press
SHEILA E. JELEN, University of Kentucky

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE
Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and
Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic

Oxford University Press
ERIC LAWEE, Bar-Ilan University

MODERN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE:
AFRICA, AMERICAS, ASIA, AND OCEANIA
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in
Early New York in Five Objects

Bard Graduate Center
LAURA LEIBMAN, Reed College

PHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH THOUGHT
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for
Legal Authority in Modern Israel

Oxford University Press
ALEXANDER KAYE, Brandeis University

This book award program has been made possible by
generous funding from Jordan Schnitzer and Arlene
Schnitzer through the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family
Fund at the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation.

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