Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards

2011 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Recipients

In the Category of Ancient and Medieval Jewish History:
MARINA RUSTOW, Johns Hopkins University
Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate
(Cornell University Press)

In the Category of Jewish Literature and Linguistics:
SHACHAR M. PINSKER, University of Michigan
Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe
(Stanford University Press)

2011 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Honorable Mentions
in Jewish Literature and Linguistics:

GABRIELLA SAFRAN, Stanford University
Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-Sky
(Harvard University Press)

MAEERA Y. SHREIBER, University of Utah
Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics
(Stanford University Press)

Information and application procedures for the 2012 competition will be available on the AJS website in February of 2012.

Support for this program has been generously provided by the
JORDAN SCHNITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION OF PORTLAND, OREGON.