2025 Research Award Recipients
HBI awards grants to support research or artistic projects in Jewish women’s and gender studies across a range of disciplines. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers. The proposals are subject to review by members of HBI’s Academic Advisory Committee and a subset of this group acts as the final Research Awards Selection Committee. Awards are funded by gifts from the HBI Board of Advisors and other donors. This year, HBI granted 14 awards totaling $61,000.
The Last Woman of Warsaw
Judy Batalion, Independent
This award is funded by the Ilse Hertha Strauss Rothschild Research Awards on Women, Gender and the Holocaust
Ester: The Rise and Fall of a Radical Jewish Woman
Elissa Bemporad, Queens College and The Graduate Center - CUNY
Carpet Craze: Jewish and Armenian Ottomans in Britain’s Oriental Rug Trade
Aviva Ben-Ur, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Society of Tsniut: Law, Gender, and Ideology
Emmanuel Bloch, Jewish Theological Seminary
This award is funded by the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law
"I have been saved for the better part of my life, namely twenty-seven years, by two women and the town of Malvern”: Queer Communities in the Shadows of the Holocaust
Sarah Ernst, University of Southern California
This award is funded by the Ilse Hertha Strauss Rothschild Research Awards on Women, Gender and the Holocaust
Defying Stigma: Jewish Women Rewriting Disability in Post-Holocaust America
Jennifer Glaser, University of Cincinnati
People of the Law: Jewish Litigation and Minority Belonging in Early Modern Germany
Tamar Menashe, Emory University
This award is funded by the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law
Jews and Drag: An American Cultural History
Golan Moskowitz, Tulane University
Almihgire: a unique blend of traditional, contemporary research-based music concert
Naama Perel, University of Pittsburgh
Shu”t Torah Hi: A Book of Responsa on Issues of Sexuality
Jennie Rosenfeld, Independent
Rachel the Matriarch in Midrash and Piyyut From the Byzantine Era
Chana Shacham-Rosby, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Discovering the Schocken Typeface: A Study of Franzisca Baruch's Work
Liron Lavi Turkenich, Independent
Reclaiming the Dybbuk: Revitalizing Yiddish Myth through Feminist and Queer Performance Art
Julie Weitz, University of Nevada, Reno
This award is funded by the Ilse Hertha Strauss Rothschild Research Awards on Women, Gender and the Holocaust
Shir Ḥadash Shel Yom: Hebrew Women’s Poetry as Liturgy, Commentary and Response to Trauma
Wendy Zierler, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion