2016 Research Award Winners
Matan Boord
Tel Aviv University
“Masculinities and Family Among Urban Members of the Zionist Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine”
Noa Lea Cohn
Bar Ilan University
“The Rise of Orthodox Jewish Women Comic Artists in Israel”
Rebecca Cypess
Rutgers University
“Listening to Sara Levy”
Aviva Dautch
The Jewish Museum, London / The British Library
“‘We Sigh for Houses’: A Poetry Collection”
Guy Ehrlich
Tel Aviv University
“‘Just as Life Includes Death So Death Includes Life’: Yehudit Hendel – Monograph”
Caron Lipchin Greenblatt
Professional artist
“Women in Domestic Spaces”
Sarah Lightman
University of Glasgow
“Dressing Eve and Other Reparative Acts in Women’s Autobiographical Comics”
Yael Munk
The Open University of Israel
“No Longer Extras in the National Drama: The Influence of Women Filmmakers on the Depolitization of Israeli Cinema” (Working Title)
Nina Spiegel
Portland State University
“Gender, Nation, and Modern Dance in Israel: Jewish Women and the Choreography of a New Nation, 1948-1967”
Jolanta Mickute
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania; POLIN Museum, Poland
“Zionism and Jewish Women’s Activism”
Mina Muraoka
National Defense Academy of Japan
“The Reception of the Diary of Anne Frank: What the Japanese Search for and See in Anne”
Shari Rabin
College of Charleston
“Judaism in Between: Space of Encounter and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America”
Brian Schmidt
University of Michigan
“Early Israel’s ‘Flirtation’ with the Feminine: The Iron Age Goddess as Dowager Queen Mother in Image and the Imaginary”
Ben Steiner
Brandeis University
“Ketubot in the Early American West”
Motti Inbari
University of North Carolina – Pembroke
“The Biography or Ruth Ben David”
Teresa Meade
Union College
“‘We don't become refugees by choice’: A Life of Flight and Advocacy from Poland to California”
Omer Aloni
Tel-Aviv University
“‘The Proliferation of Wives Question’: Early Israeli Law and the Dilemma of Bigamy and Polygamy among Eastern Communities”
Miri Cohen-Achdut
Ben Gurion University
“Quotations in Women’s Hebrew Writing in the Late 19th Century as a Strategy of Rejecting Social Conventions Concerning Women”
Esther David
Unaffiliated researcher in India
“Bene-Appetite (Research on Indian Jewish Food Traditions)”
Michal Raucher
University of Cincinnati
“Officially and Halakhically Here to Stay: Orthodox Female Clergy in Israel and America”
Shana Strauch Schick
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
“Do Women Emit Seed?: Theories of Embryogenesis and the Regulation of Female Masturbation in Rabbinic Literature”
Verena Buser
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin and Center for Jewish Studies, Berlin-Brandenburg
“Places of a new beginning? The United Nations Jewish Children’s Centers in the US-Zone”
Sara Halpern
Ohio State University
“The World of 1939 Stood Still For Us: European Jewish Emigration from Shanghai, 1945–1951”
Golan Moskowitz
Brandeis University
“Wild, Outside, in the Night: Maurice Sendak, Queer American Jewishness, and the Child”
Shaul Kelner
Vanderbilt University
“American Travel to Meet Soviet Jews: Gendered Encounters, Gendered Representations”