December 16, 2021 53Congratulations 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 PalestineHarvard University Press
AMELIA M. GLASER,
University of California, San DiegoMODERN JEWISH HISTORY AND
CULTURE: AFRICA, AMERICAS, ASIA,
AND OCEANIA
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration
and the Modern Sephardi DiasporaStanford University Press
DEVI MAYS, University of MichiganMEDIEVAL 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 SocietyPrinceton University Press
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO,
Institute for Advanced StudyPHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH THOUGHT
Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, UniversalityUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ANNABEL HERZOG, University of HaifaWINNERS FINALISTS
JEWISH LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish
Folk EthnographiesWayne State University Press
SHEILA E. JELEN, University of KentuckyMEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JEWISH
HISTORY AND CULTURE
Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and
Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish ClassicOxford University Press
ERIC LAWEE, Bar-Ilan UniversityMODERN 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 ObjectsBard Graduate Center
LAURA LEIBMAN, Reed CollegePHILOSOPHY AND JEWISH THOUGHT
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for
Legal Authority in Modern IsraelOxford University Press
ALEXANDER KAYE, Brandeis UniversityThis book award program has been made possible by
generous funding from Jordan Schnitzer and Arlene
Schnitzer through the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family
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